System Senior Analyst

This Senior System Analyst role is within Luxoft's Application Modernization Practice, focusing on migrating a legacy mainframe system (HLASM) to a cloud-based Java environment for a major US bank. The role involves developing, analyzing, and organizing requirement specifications, reverse engineering design and functions from code, translating non-technical requirements into technical specifications, and maintaining the system's knowledge base. The position requires mandatory 5-day-per-week onsite work.

Must Have

• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts.
• Recover design, requirement specifications, and functions from HLASM/Cobol code.
• Translate non-technical requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Convert low-level code descriptions into meaningful functional requirements.
• Organize requirements into features and stories.
• Maintain system and project knowledge base.
• Participate in team process optimization.
• Mandatory work from the office 5 days per week.
• Possess a strong technical background.
• Ready to deep dive into High-Level Assembler code to reverse engineer requirements.
• Able to provide concise and coherent documentation in English.
• Able to enhance requirements with models and diagrams as needed.
• At least 3 years of experience in a BA/SA role.
• Analytical mindset.
• Understanding of and practical experience with different types of requirements and their representation.
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements.
• Ability to communicate in both business and technical languages.
• High level of seniority when dealing with complex tasks.
• Experience in analyzing and documenting integrations.
• Experience of working on projects with international stakeholders (USA, UK).
• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of analytical tools (functional/non-functional requirements, use cases, user stories, UML).

Good to Have

• Experience with IBM zOS mainframe.
• Understanding of IBM High-Level Assembler, COBOL.
• Experience with microservices architecture, message brokers.

Perks & Benefits

• Relocation friendly

Project description

Application Modernization Practice is a horizontal practice, supporting all business verticals in Luxoft.

We are looking for a Senior System Analyst who will be able to work with different domain zones.

For this project we have an ambitious goal to migrate a legacy system written in HLASM (High-Level Assembler) from the mainframe to a cloud-based Java environment for one of the largest banks in the USA.

Mandatory work from the office 5 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow;
• Recovering the design, requirement specifications and functions of a system from an analysis of its code (currently High-Level Assembler, Cobol in the nearest future);
• Translate non-technical requirements into clear technical specifications;
• Convert low level code descriptions into meaningful functional requirements;
• Organize requirements into features and stories;
• Maintain knowledge base for the system and the project;
• Participate in the optimization of internal team processes;
• Mandatory work from the office 5 days per week.

Skills

Must have

• Technical background is a must;
• Must be ready to deep dive into High-Level Assembler code to reverse engineer requirements;
• Must be able to provide concise and coherent documentation in English (target audience is native speakers);
• Must be able to enhance requirements with models and diagrams as needed
• We expect from the candidate:
• At least 3 years of experience in a BA/SA role;
• Analytical mindset;
• Understanding of and practical experience with different types of requirements and their representation;
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements;
• Ability to communicate in both business and technical languages;
• High level of seniority when dealing with complex tasks;
• Experience in analyzing and documenting integrations;
• Experience of working on projects with international stakeholders (USA, UK);
• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of analytical tools (functional/non-functional requirements, use cases, user stories, UML).

Nice to have

• Experience with IBM zOS mainframe
• Understanding of IBM High-Level Assembler, COBOL
• Experience with microservices architecture, message brokers

Other

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior