Sr Business Systems Analyst

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Job description

The Sr. Business Systems Analyst is responsible for leading and participating in Analytics/Business Intelligence initiatives supporting Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain, Facilities, and Grants leveraging Power BI, Tableau, and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)

Business/Advisory
• Mentor and lead the staff to improve the current state of the business and systems knowledge. This will include updates to critical documentation of config guides, business process flows, testing scripts, technical design, and any additional needed project documentation.
• Serve as a liaison between business users and Information Technology
• Maintain working knowledge of customer's business processes & operations.
• Stay abreast on business and technology trends to understand impact on our current service line portfolio.
• Understand the impact of the job within the institution; have and use cross-functional knowledge to understand interdepartmental connections.
• Holds or participates in regular project/work sessions with staff and business users to discuss priorities leveraging Agile/SCRUM methodologies
• Document and communicate business requirements to developers
• Design innovative solutions to business problems and enhancement requests, taking full account of existing system design constraints.
Shares knowledge of M. D. Anderson, technical expertise, and functional processes and procedures.
Prioritize, schedule and monitor activities and quality of work for assigned resources to include the creation of work plans and status reports to management following the Institutional Systems Development Methodology.
Be able to identify the information needed to clarify a problem or situation, seek that information from appropriate sources, and use skillful questioning to draw out the information.

Business/Technical Competencies
• Lead Analytics and Business Intelligence initiatives including facilitating meetings, lead standard project implementation processes including requirements gathering, solution design, gap analysis, functional design specifications for our reporting needs, system configuration, testing, training, and complete detailed documentation leveraging standardized templates.
• Provide consulting and system support throughout the project life cycle to our business partners by conveying industry trends, enterprise technology strategy and define technical solutions which meet the needs of the business.
• Work with enterprise architects, project teams, functional and technical analysts to design solution architecture that meets operational requirements and is scalable, easily maintained, secure and highly available.
• Work with other Architects and Project Teams to facilitate alignment among architecture decisions. Develop and produce architecture artifacts, technical designs, strategy documents and other technical artifacts.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Business Intelligence solutions including Power BI, Tableau, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).
• Lead Analytics and Business Intelligence initiatives including facilitating meetings, lead standard project implementation processes including requirements gathering, solution design, gap analysis, functional design specifications for our reporting needs, system configuration, testing, training, and complete detailed documentation leveraging standardized templates.
• Utilize advanced SQL knowledge to develop and analyze datasets
• Facilitate and manage evaluations and proof of concept activities as a subject matter expert.
• Develop standards that govern the strategy to collect metadata
• Implement best practices and standards to analyze, profile and store data
• Develop and document standards and guidelines to govern the use of data integration tools and processes
• Perform requirements gathering, analysis, scope and time estimation of ETLs, reports and dashboards.
• Prepare time estimates and justifications for assigned tasks and provide recommendations to project managers.
• Prioritize, schedule and monitor activities and quality of work for assigned resources to include the creation of work plans and status reports to management following the Institutional Systems Development Methodology.
• Create Reports, Ad-Hoc Queries and Interactive Dashboards in support of MD Anderson business objectives, using a variety of display and delivery options.

Other duties as assigned

Education Required:
Bachelor's degree.

Experience:
Five years' experience in domain, project management, Epic software or workflow analysis. May substitute require education degree with additional years of equivalent experience on a one to one basis.

Preferred Experience:
• Project Management experience
• Deep knowledge of SQL
• Experience with modeling and metadata management tools
• Hands on Experience working in Windows, Unix
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Experience with PeopleSoft, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA/BIApps)
• Working knowledge of Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Virtualization architectures
• Knowledge of Data Management and Governance best practices

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.