Location: Hybrid with 4 days per month on-site at Boston, MA (They are hybrid onsite 4 days per month - The Program team is in the office on the second and fourth Tuesday every month; the two additional in-office days are flexible and determined by the employee and their manager)
Candidate MUST hold valid ID or driver’s license in VT, NH, MA, RI, CT, or NY. Once selected for the role, the candidate must be willing to relocate to MA if s/he is not yet an MA resident.
The Integration Sr. Business Analyst will be part of a team of System Integration (SI) staff and product vendor and Program staff that will design and implement tasks necessary to transition existing interfaces or implement new data-sharing strategies for the new cloud Financials solution. The team will be responsible for business alignment and transition assurance, activities in the areas of data integration, including developing integration transition support materials, requirements, and tasks to accomplish the Team’s objectives as part of the overall implementation of the new Financials solution. This position will be responsible for ensuring that each existing interface business team/organization understands its role during this transition and feels like they have the support necessary to ensure success.
This role works at the highest level of most phases of information systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future environment. Duties include developing technical standards and policies to meet the needs of the customers (interfacing agencies); ensuring systems analysis procedures and practices are identified and implemented; providing leadership in the development of strategic plans; promoting the utilization of technical services to resolve business problems; manage customer expectations; may lead re-engineering team and act as project manager to assist interfacing agencies in completing required tasks.
Specific Duties
Confer with the user community to conduct research and analysis to formulate and define data integration requirements, scope, timing, and objectives
In conjunction with the Program systems integration (SI) vendor:
Provide options for data integration other than the current interface landscape
Support detailed mapping specifications from which integration software will be written or programmed
Develop “integration materials” that allow business teams of the interfacing agencies to understand current and future interface solutions, such as process flows, support models, data, and testing approaches.
Support agencies on their inbound interfaces that will be certified with the new solution
Review existing specifications for unique interfaces with the agency owning the interface to highlight modifications in the system specifications of the new solution
Provide complete documentation for new or modified integration protocols and processes, including operational procedures and manuals as needed
Support unit, system, integration, conversion, or other testing of integration deliverables
Support the SI and product vendors in building unique interfaces in partnership with the agency application owner and testing and certification the interface for use with the new solution
Work with agencies and the Team to provide instructions on how to build extracts or queries linking data in the new solution with historical data housed in the existing Commonwealth Information Warehouse
Support acceptance testing and certification of all interfaces
Help manage the transition of responsibilities from legacy applications to new solutions and services
Assist in identifying and setting up procedures and tools to monitor and audit interfaces to assure the security of the interface platform
Support and maintain data within the Integration management tool.
Assist/support Technical Lead on Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements
Assist/support Agencies in their Integration testing of the operational solution, including error handling, communications with CTR and teams, and execution metrics
Required Skills
Minimum of five years in a Business Analyst role with implementation experience in one or more of the following disciplines: large-scale data integration across platforms, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), or database management
Exposure to technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments in one or more projects of similar size and complexity
Demonstrated experience in implementing successful data integration projects
Demonstrated experience in business integration solutions with different interface types: batch interfaces, near real-time interfaces, and real-time interfaces
Demonstrated experience within a highly regulated operational environment
Knowledge of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships, and metadata
Experience in database management system (DBMS) implementation, including tables, joins, SQL querying, and JSON
Experience establishing data from multiple sources to support analysis needs
Ability to quickly familiarize oneself with the use cases, business purposes, and quality of the data
Exposure to data modeling
Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Software as a Service cloud implementations particularly those in which legacy applications have been migrated to cloud delivery options
Experience in the generation of integration materials, including but not limited to data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, data quality diagrams, and network and security diagrams.
Demonstrated success in developing business materials leveraging a highly complex technical solution
Demonstrated success in managing projects using Jira and other PM tools
Demonstrated success working in both Agile and traditional waterfall business environments
Experience with Cloud business solutions
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
Industries
Internet Publishing
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