Senior System Analyst

##### 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.

##### 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