Solution Analyst - Work from home

A large food and catering company is looking for a Solution Analyst to join their Solution team for their Next Gen Point of Sale Technologies (NGSS). The company has a legacy system for their point-of-sale software that they are working on modernizing. This team plays a big role in how they modernize their point-of-sale technology. The Solution team acts as an in-between for the strategy and development teams. They are responsible for taking business requirements from the strategy team and turning them into actionable items for the development teams. The goal is for them to be able to hand off a created solution for the dev team so they can be most efficient with their time.

Solution Analysts work closely with business stakeholders, product designers, solution architects, and developers. They are responsible for working within product domains at a feature level. This candidate will act as a middleman between the business stakeholders and the development teams to ensure that features are being executed with proper direction.

The Solution Analyst is focused on specific features and capabilities. A hybrid of a BA and Developer. Looking for someone with experience with APIs, and Postman, and who is comfortable with REST. Looking for someone with experience working with the business units and gathering requirements. They need to be familiar with a coding language as they may be asked to dive into old code. This person will not be expected to be hands-on with the code but will work heavily with the APIs.

This position is for a Solution Analyst on the Next Generation Store Systems (NGSS) Solution Architecture and Design Team. The NGSS solution is made up of web-based applications and API-based services that will help drive this company's worldwide innovation in the years to come. The Technical Analyst is proficient in both the business and technical aspects of the NGSS platform and is responsible for creating the technical specifications for new features.

• Responsibilities : *
• Be an expert of the business. Understand the requirements and validate the NGSS solution architecture against existing functionality covering a wide range of international use cases.
• Be an expert of the system. Understand the NGSS applications and services and how they interact. Engage in productive discussions with a variety of audiences at both high and low levels of the system.
• Deliver solutions for new NGSS features. Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with solution architects to develop and maintain solution documentation. This includes API specifications, domain models, solution models, sequence diagrams and event models.
• Collaborate with product designers to help create a superior user experience in NGSS applications.
• Lead hand-off meetings to disseminate solution specifications to the development team. Provide guidance on features throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform acceptance testing of features as development is complete. Help diagnose issues with data, applications, and services.
• Analyze current store configurations and data (e.g., addresses, coupons, pricing, reports) and collaborate on migration approaches and tools.
• Additional Skills & Qualifications : *
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology or Computer / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering.
• At least three years of applicable IT experience working on a large application initiative.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Adept at engaging equally in business-level discussions with stakeholders and technical discussions with peers.
• Ability to comprehend complex technical concepts and disseminate them both verbally and in writing.
• Experience with web-based application development teams. Experience in an agile environment is a plus.
• Experience diagnosing application issues by reviewing log files. Experience with Splunk is a plus.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API concepts. Experience with OpenAPI and Postman are pluses.
• Adept at working with JSON files.
• Working knowledge of database concepts.
• Working knowledge of one or more programming languages. C# experience is a plus.
• Working knowledge of one or more operating systems. Unix / Linux experience is a plus.
• Ability to troubleshoot and manage problems independently.
• Knowledge of UML or similar modeling language is a plus.

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