Senior Technologist

Senior Technologist

Job scope:

Senior individual contributor within the Evolve product team. Leads analysis for high-complexity, cross-functional business and technology initiatives and influences decisions across product, process, application, integration, and data domains. Provides  day-to-day leadership, mentoring, and work-product review for analysts and delivery partners. The BSA will be part of a WU Technology product team that typically works on annual IT budget of several million dollars supporting the Winfield United business.

Required Experience/Knowledge/Skills (to be able to perform this job):

§  Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered where consistent with company practice. 

§  10+ years of progressive experience in business systems analysis, systems analysis, product analysis, or a closely related role supporting complex enterprise solutions. 

§  Demonstrated experience leading requirements and solution analysis for initiatives involving multiple applications, integrations, business processes, and data domains. 

§  Advanced ability to produce clear functional and system requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process models, data mappings, interface specifications, and traceability artifacts. 

§  Strong SQL skills, including writing and interpreting medium-to-complex queries for analysis, reconciliation, validation, troubleshooting, and data-quality assessment. 

§  Hands-on experience analyzing APIs, interfaces, batch and event-driven integrations, file exchanges, data flows, error handling, and upstream/downstream system dependencies. 

§  Experience in JD Edwards (JDE 9.2) – Sales and Distribution (Order to Cash) and Advanced pricing, including supporting business processes, system enhancements, integrations, or modernization initiatives.

§  Experience in Custom application development – Web Order management.

§  Working knowledge of software delivery life cycles, Agile product delivery, backlog management, testing practices, release readiness, production support, and incident/root-cause analysis. 

§  Ability to define and evaluate nonfunctional requirements, including security, privacy, performance, availability, resiliency, auditability, usability, and operational support. 

§  Perform root cause analysis for critical production issues and support issue resolution.

§  Proven ability to evaluate solution alternatives and communicate business value, technical feasibility, risk, dependencies, operational impacts, and tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical audiences. 

§  Experience partnering effectively with product managers, architects, engineers, data and analytics teams, security, vendors, QA, operations, and senior business stakeholders. 

§  Strong facilitation, structured problem-solving, written communication, negotiation, and executive-ready presentation skills. 

§  Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and mentor other analysts while maintaining objective, consistent technical standards. 

Preferred Experience 

§  Experience modernizing or transforming complex business capabilities across legacy and cloud-based solutions.

§  Experience with enterprise business applications such as CRM, supply chain, customer, commerce, finance, or related platforms, including integrated and cloud-based environments. 

§  Experience with process modeling, capability mapping, value-stream analysis, data visualization, API tools, requirements-management tools, and Agile delivery platforms.

§  Experience supporting vendor evaluations, RFPs, build-versus-buy analysis, proofs of concept, or technology selection.

§  Experience identifying and shaping AI-enabled, analytics, or automation use cases with appropriate data, architecture, security, and adoption considerations.

Salary range: $107,680 - $161,520 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges) 

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