Sr. IT Systems Analyst (Cloud / API)

Our direct, Fortune 100 client is looking for a senior-level, REMOTE IT Systems Analyst for a 12-month, extendable contract position. You’d be joining the project as a technical liaison between the Business and IT for various projects, all generally related to cloud-based system integration efforts involving APIs. Your primary responsibilities would involve requirements elicitation, documentation, and management within Azure DevOps, as well as system analysis and process mapping. This is an Agile/Scrum environment, so experience working in an Agile environment and helping to facilitate ceremonies is a must (including experience using Azure DevOps for requirements management).

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Creates detailed documentation and diagrams (e.g., data flow diagrams, context diagrams) for the design, development, and implementation of new systems and enhancements.

• Facilitates design review sessions to validate solutions and participate in system design improvement processes.

• Reviews system capacity, data archiving, and retention needs.

• Evaluates new products and vendors, providing comparison reports and overviews for IT Management.

• Prepares project pilot, rollout, contingency, and rollback plans.

• Conducts impact analysis on various projects affecting targeted systems.

• Creates metrics by collecting, analyzing, interpreting, monitoring, and auditing data for specific systems.

• Elicits and document moderately complex business and technical requirements using industry-accepted techniques.

• Leads requirements reviews to ensure comprehensiveness and adherence to documentation standards and methodologies.

• Manages and track the progress of requirements using standard tools and processes.

• Provides direction writing requirements, feasibility, and cost considerations, and addressing complex technical challenges.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify needs and effectively elicit both technical and non-technical requirements for planned enhancements, system modifications, or new system specifications.

-Effectively ask questions of stakeholders to include developers and platform resources to ensure data flow is understood and appropriately planned for in an ambiguous environment

• Utilizes industry-standard tools and methodologies to gather and translate requirements into comprehensive documentation and user stories.

• Participates in the alignment on requirements to ensure work products are comprehensive and adhere to documentation standards, methodologies, and regulatory guidelines.

• Works with other team analysts to create and monitor progress on work items for the project.

• Takes ownership of work tracking and visual management experience, including creation of dashboards and other metrics.

• Story card creation, and additionally attending and running Scrum ceremonies

Musts: - Knowledge of API integrations, data mapping, and real-time transaction processing within distributed system architectures.

• Knowledge of cloud-based implementations, including migration, integration, and deployment of enterprise applications.

• Experience using Azure DevOps for backlog management, requirements documentation, and Agile delivery tracking.

• Ability to analyze complex, ambiguous requirements and identify dependencies to drive clarity supporting effective solution design.

• Ability to independently facilitate requirements sessions, workshops, and discussions, ensuring structured, aligned, and actionable outcomes.

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to manage work end-to-end with accountability and minimal direction.

• Strong organizational ability to manage commitments, track progress, and consistently follow through on deliverables.

• Ability to coordinate across stakeholders and drive closure of action items with clear documentation of outcomes and decisions.

• Ability to produce structured, high-quality artifacts, including business rules, process flows, data mappings, and acceptance criteria.

• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments while maintaining focus on priorities, commitments, and delivery objectives.

• Strong facilitation skills to guide discussions, surface gaps, and drive alignment across business and technical stakeholders.

• Knowledge of user acceptance testing (UAT) processes and ability to support validation of business outcomes and system integrity.

• Ability to anticipate downstream impacts, dependencies, and risks to support cross-team readiness and alignment.

• Strong communication discipline to ensure clarity of decisions, next steps, and stakeholder ownership.

• Self-starter mindset with strong problem-solving ability, proactive stakeholder engagement, and focus on continuous improvement.

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance, * 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account