Sr. Business Systems Analyst – Business Continuity Management
Tequity is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Business Systems Analyst with specialties within application recovery, business resumption and business continuity. Candidate will be responsible for interviewing business resources, understanding sets of applications, completing application recovery templates, and identifying risks and issues within existing planning. Deliverables from this engagement will include more generic template application recovery forms as well as gap analysis documentation and mitigation recommendations for identified process risks. A key goal of the program is to provide a full comprehensive plan that will allow an organization to continue business application services through a crisis, disaster, or operational disruption. This plan will encompass over 80 applications of mixed technologies. Key technology areas include both mainframe and client server applications.
The ideal candidate will be able to work closely with business and technology resources, comprehend application architecture and related systems, and recognize dependent data and processes between applications.
This position is mostly remote. However, the candidate must be US based with the ability to travel to or be located near central Illinois for some on-site work. Duration is estimated at 1 year.
Key Responsibilities
Business Impact Analysis
A candidate will need to work with multiple teams to both complete standard application recovery questionnaires and recovery gap analysis to identify risks and opportunities. The BA would work closely with business and technology teams to complete standard template documentation interpreting interview and system documentation to create an accurate assessment. The candidate may use tools such as organizational lists, functional design documents, and system design documents, to identify relevant parties and business impacts.
Identify Key Threats and Impacts
The candidate will need to analysis identify internal and external threats within the stock templates that could potentially impact the organization or recovery success. Each threat would be classified as a risk event and documented in a risk registrar. The BA will need to identify how unknowns, constraints, and dependencies contribute to risk, and how the risk can negatively impact the organization. Key organizational concerns for risk are lost sales/revenue, increased expenses, dissatisfied customers, loss of employees, as well as reputational and physical damage to the organization. In addition, the BA will need to understand the organization's risk tolerance to categorize these findings and make a recommended a course of action.
Work as a Team
Candidate will work within a larger team of business and IT resources, a Project Architect, a Document Writer, and a Project Manager. This team will chiefly be responsible for working with business teams, updating and maintaining recovery template documents, recognizing gaps, and make recommendations for workable recovery plans.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
· Bachelor’s degree in IT or business applications or related field is required.
· Experience writing Business Continuity Plans
· Minimum 6 years of experience in Business analysis with an understanding of application design, application architecture, business functional design, and/or data management is required.
· Strong communication skills are required for business user interviews and team interaction.
· Demonstrated ability to work within a high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, creative solutioning, and continuous improvement is required.
· Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate and address challenges proactively while maintaining a focus on achieving business objectives is required.
· Experience in multiple application technologies is required.
· Strong analytical and decision-making skills with the ability to analyze complex issues, identify relationships between application processes, and recommend practical solutions is required.
· Technology experience in application recovery.
Travel on 9/92024 for the first week. The rest of the role is fully remote.
