Data Engineer with Business Analyst

The Senior Business Systems Analyst – Business Unit (BU) is responsible for identifying opportunities for improving services and products to BECU members and processes internal to BECU through the use of technology, exhibiting a broad knowledge base of multiple applications and BECU business units in a highly collaborative environment.  The SBSA accomplishes this through leveraging the functionality of applications, management of vendor relationships and maintenance of a professional working relationship with the end user of the applications.  This role acts as a liaison between business and IT departments to translate business needs and objectives into technology solutions.  The Senior Business Systems Analyst – BU works on complex projects/teams and acts as a mentor and lead to Business Analysts.  Role incumbents will be self-motivated, display leadership and forward-thinking skills and be capable of operating at strategic and tactical levels.

• Perform all responsibilities in accordance with BECU Competencies, compliance, regulatory and Information Protection requirements.
• Elicit, document and communicate business and user requirements and functional specifications.
• Lead team with design of technical solutions to meet business requirements.
• Translate functional specifications to software vendor requirements and coordinate vendor delivery.
• Lead test planning of technical solutions and support testing by facilitating resolution of identified bugs.
• Manage the installation of application patches, releases and enhancements on development, test, disaster recovery and production systems, following IT Change Control guidelines.
• Act as project manager for some enhancements and small projects.
• Consult with and advocate to multiple BECU business units outside of project efforts.
• Partner with the business units in documenting and prioritizing business objectives.
• Lead Business Readiness (Enterprise Analysis) efforts for complex projects/teams.  Lead activities to identify people, process and system impacts of business objectives for all sizes of projects/teams.
• Assist Technical Analysts with application specific production support, as needed (4^th tier support).
• Coordinate the development and maintenance of manuals, procedures and other documentation required for the effective operations of the application support team.
• Maintain application upgrade and life-cycle activity roadmaps.
• Develop disaster recovery plans for business applications.
• Act as a mentor to and resource for less experienced Business Analysts.
• Develop and execute strategies for data management, including automation of data flows between systems and data required for external regulatory reporting.

• Perform additional duties, as assigned.