Business Systems Analyst - DEC

The Engineering Division works in partnership with all the other Laboratory technical divisions to design and build advanced technology systems of national importance. The Division’s expertise includes mechanical, materials, aero, thermal, optical, control, and fabrication engineering plus energy and autonomous systems. Supporting the engineering efforts are a wide range of specialized laboratories, electronics and mechanical fabrication capabilities, plus integration and environmental test facilities. Special emphasis is placed on the integration of design and analysis capabilities to support the rapid prototyping of hardware systems.

Position Description

The Systems Analyst researches, documents, designs, configures, and/or modifies system processes, requirements, design and testing and/or application systems or reports. Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards. Evaluates interfaces between hardware and software, operational requirements, and characteristics of the overall system. Prepares concepts for information system solutions and may evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these concepts. Documents and supports testing and maintenance of system corrections.

Primary Duties

Problem definition, evaluation of requirements and implementation of solutions to meet research and user requirements within the MIT LL Engineering division

Collaborate and engage with users, partners and other stakeholders to define requirements and translate business requirements into designs and test cases for information technology projects

Revise existing systems and tests functionality to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage

Develops, documents and communicates specifications and configures systems solutions that address business or functional requirements, implements processes that fit with the organization’s system architecture standards

Supports system upgrades and performs troubleshooting to identify impacts to end user processes and any required mitigations resulting from the upgrades

Duties Cont.

Maintains high level of proficiency and current knowledge of assigned applications from master data, transaction data thru analytics and planning.

Maintains a detailed knowledge of support required by users for a primary functional area and provides second tier support for other functional business areas.

Supports testing of functionality, changes and enhancements to ensure they meet requirements

Resolve performance and availability issues in the existing system implementation and debug issues and develop fixes to prevent recurrence

Take part in major upgrade activities including regression testing and mitigation

Stay abreast of and share system best practices and feature enhancements to promote continuous improvement

Communication, Collaboration, Training

May act as a liaison with other subject matter experts and users of the systems

Document and communicates ongoing work and design changes to IT and research

Collaborates across teams to ensure standard system functionality is identified and used in all relevant situations

Develops, publishes, and maintains documentation according to department standards

Develops and delivers training on applications capabilities to increase user acceptance

Planning

Performs a variety of complicated tasks and may direct the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected

Involved in planning of system and development, testing, deployment

Identifies and proposes both business process and system design related reengineering and streamlining opportunities for implementation

Ensures business requirements are met by monitoring available metrics and collecting feedback

Acts as the stakeholder’s advocate to IT in order to ensure that problems are resolved effectively and expeditiously

Qualifications - Required

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics, IT Business Systems Mgmt, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent relevant work experience

6+ years of experience with Systems Analysis

Effective communication, analytical and problem-solving skills

Must have a working knowledge of relational databases and client-server concepts

Working knowledge of ERP, PLM and enterprise systems

Working knowledge of the software lifecycle and methodologies

Ability to work independently toward delivery of milestones as well as collaborate in team efforts

Ability to work analytically in a problem-solving environment

Skill in analyzing process and data flows

Skill in requirements collection and analysis to identify needs

Preferred

Master’s Degree in Business Analytics, IT Business Systems Mgmt, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent relevant work experience

Proven PLM experience in requirements gathering, deployment and support

Proven SAP experience in requirements gathering, deployment and support

Aras Innovator experience

Experience with developing software-based solutions in SQVI and or ABAP

Experience with reports development

Direct experience in an implementation and operational support

Solid understanding of programming concepts with multiple programming environments and languages

Project management and collaboration skills to succeed in matrixed environment

Working with change management tools for software life cycle development

Experience with XML and SQL

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At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans

MIT-funded pension

Matching 401K

Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)

Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs

Mentorship programs

A range of work-life balance options

... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.

Requisition ID: 40244