Senior Systems Analyst
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The Senior Systems Analyst - Data Solutions is a senior individual contributor role accountable for requirements integrity and solution intent across complex, multiinitiative data, analytics, and AIenabled solutions at Texas Oncology. This role serves as the authoritative steward of data and AI solution definition, ensuring that analytics platforms, data products, integrations, reporting, and AIenabled insights are grounded in validated business needs and translate into solutions that are architecturally sound, feasible to deliver, and operationally viable.
Operating at the intersection of data, technology, automation, and advanced analytics, this role serves as the primary steward of data solution intent-ensuring analytics platforms, data products, AIenabled insights, machinelearningbacked capabilities, integrations, and reporting solutions deliver measurable business value while aligning to enterprise data architecture, AI governance, and technology standards established as part of the Texas Oncology digital roadmap., * Own endtoend functional and technical definition for complex data, analytics, and AIenabled initiatives, including analytics platforms, reporting solutions, data pipelines, curated data products, and advanced insights.
- Lead deep discovery with business, clinical, and IT stakeholders to uncover underlying needs, constraints, and success measures tied to digital transformation priorities.
- Translate business problems into clear, unambiguous, highquality requirements, including metrics, data inputs and outputs, logic definitions, model performance expectations, and acceptance criteria.
- Proactively identify and resolve requirements ambiguity, scope gaps, and conflicting stakeholder expectations that could compromise solution quality or delivery outcomes.
Architecture & Governance Alignment
- Serve as a senior, trusted partner to Enterprise, Solution, AI, and Data Architects in shaping topoflicense design decisions for modern analytics and AIenabled solutions.
- Ensure solution intent aligns with enterprise data models, integration standards, security and privacy requirements, and AI governance frameworks, including lifecycle management and monitoring expectations.
- Validate that proposed solutions are feasible within platform capabilities, data readiness constraints, and established architectural guardrails.
Technical Product Ownership and Backlog Management
- Maintain prioritized backlogs and serve as technical product owner for assigned products and data domains.
- Balance stakeholder needs with architectural constraints, data readiness, model feasibility, and platform capabilities.
- Support backlog refinement and delivery checkpoints to ensure data and AI capabilities are implemented as intended and are operationally viable.
- Align data and AI solutions with enterprise governance processes covering data stewardship, model lifecycle management, monitoring, and compliance.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of data and AI analysis practices, templates, and standards across Texas Oncology IT.
CrossInitiative Delivery Enablement
- Provide seniorlevel analysis and coordination across data and AI initiatives, including dependency identification, readiness assessment, and outcome validation.
- Partner with IT Project Managers and delivery leads to ensure solutions move predictably through the SDLC and into production with appropriate operational readiness.
- Serve as a point of escalation for definitionrelated risks impacting delivery feasibility, quality, or outcomes.
Continuous Improvement & Standards Development
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of data and AI analysis practices, including standards, templates, patterns, and reusable artifacts.
- Share lessons learned to mature requirements rigor, analytics definition quality, and crossteam consistency across Texas Oncology IT.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- 6-9 years of experience as a Systems Analyst, Senior IT Analyst, or Data Analyst in complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated expertise translating ambiguous business problems into highquality, datacentric technical requirements.
- Strong applied knowledge of analytics, data platforms, and AIenabled solution concepts (toolagnostic; modelagnostic)., * Healthcare analytics, clinical data, or AIenabled healthcare solutions experience.
- Experience working with modern data platforms, BI tools, and/or AI or automation platforms.
- Experience collaborating with Data Engineers, AI engineers, or data science teams.
- Experience defining analytics or AI solutions operating at enterprise scale, The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be offered to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is performed in an office environment. Involves frequent interaction with corporate and field staff, as well as external customers and contacts. Work may require some travel by air or automobile. Fantastic time-management skills with the ability to multi-task.