Senior IT Analyst - Applications

Job Description:

We are seeking a skilled Senior IT Analyst Applications to join Strategic Procurement - CAT IT Division.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Whitefield PSN Office - Bangalore, KA - India.

This position requires candidate to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.

Job Summary:

This role is responsible for modernizing the application portfolio that supports Procurement processes.

What you will do:

• Partner with Procurement leaders, business users, product owners, architects, and delivery teams to understand business processes, pain points, and modernization priorities.
• Assess legacy applications and define pragmatic modernization approaches, including re-platforming, refactoring, integration, data migration, and retirement.
• Design and develop responsive user experiences with ReactJS and scalable services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build, deploy, and support secure cloud solutions on AWS, applying appropriate architecture, integration, monitoring, and operational practices.
• Evaluate and implement generative AI use cases using Amazon Bedrock, with appropriate security, governance, and responsible AI controls.
• Design data solutions and integrations using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SnapLogic, APIs, and related ETL patterns.
• Lead requirements analysis, solution design, estimation, development, code reviews, testing, deployment, defect resolution, and post-go-live support.
• Translate complex technical topics into clear business outcomes, options, risks, and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Promote reusable components, engineering standards, DevSecOps practices, documentation, and continuous improvement across the application portfolio.

What You Have:

• Partner with Procurement leaders, business users, product owners, architects, and delivery teams to understand business processes, pain points, and modernization priorities.
• Assess legacy applications and define pragmatic modernization approaches, including re-platforming, refactoring, integration, data migration, and retirement.
• Design and develop responsive user experiences with ReactJS and scalable services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build, deploy, and support secure cloud solutions on AWS, applying appropriate architecture, integration, monitoring, and operational practices.
• Evaluate and implement generative AI use cases using Amazon Bedrock, with appropriate security, governance, and responsible AI controls.
• Design data solutions and integrations using Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SnapLogic, APIs, and related ETL patterns.
• Lead requirements analysis, solution design, estimation, development, code reviews, testing, deployment, defect resolution, and post-go-live support.
• Translate complex technical topics into clear business outcomes, options, risks, and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Promote reusable components, engineering standards, DevSecOps practices, documentation, and continuous improvement across the application portfolio.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Proven delivery of at least one large-scale application modernization, cloud migration, or legacy platform transformation.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, or AI-enabled enterprise applications.
• Experience establishing modern front-end and back-end architecture standards and reusable engineering patterns.
• Knowledge of procurement, supplier management, master data, or related enterprise business processes.
• Experience with data migration, data quality, integration architecture, and analytics or reporting solutions.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

Skill Descriptors:

Core Application Systems:

Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.
• Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.
• Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.
• Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.
• Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.
• Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.

Problem Solving:

Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Application Design, Architecture:

Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.
• Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.
• Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.
• Troubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.
• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.

Implementation:

Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).

Level Working Knowledge:

• Tracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.
• Researches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.
• Drafts application software usage for the department's needs.
• Provides instant support for end users of application software.
• Implements a specific application software under the supervision of management.

Requirements Analysis:

Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
• Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
• Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
• Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

System and Technology Integration:

Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Designs and develops applications or technology interfaces and bridges.
• Documents existing best practices for system or technology integration processes.
• Identifies and quantifies risks of proposed alternatives to a system or technology integration initiative.
• Delivers training on major issues, interfaces, considerations and potential pitfalls and risks.
• Discusses with line areas on data, technology and application integration issues.
• Advises others in how to integrate projects across multiple technologies.

System Testing:

Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Verifies the proper flow of transactions across all input, output and storage channels or devices.
• Evaluates interoperability of new systems with existing systems during the beta testing phase.
• Supervises the testing of complex, multi-platform and distributed applications.
• Designs processes to ensure that the system meets and maintains requirements and expectations.
• Coaches end users on the development of test data and test scenarios for system validation.
• Manages the execution of test plans, including resources, strategies, schedules, processes and tools.

Technical Troubleshooting:

Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Discovers, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software or application problems.
• Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities.
• Handles calls related to product features, applications, and compatibility standards.
• Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
• Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.

This position requires working onsite five days a week. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.