Senior Business Systems Analyst, Order Management at Equinix in Frisco, Texas

Job Description:

Senior Business Systems Analyst, Order Management

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.  

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

Job Summary: Partners with Business Groups to ensure delivery of applications aligned to the business and IT strategy, as well as the support of those applications. Works with Business Groups to define their global IT requirements and to analyze appropriate solutions. Manages projects from inception to completion with matrix, global teams.

Responsibilities

Business Requirements Analysis

• Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business requirements, within and across functional areas




• Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling




• Has a strong focus on gathering core requirements, beyond stated requirements and correctly places these within a broader context




• Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders

Process Modeling and Design

• Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business processes within and across functional areas




• Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling




• Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders

Stakeholder Management

• Manages stakeholder expectations and communications within and beyond functional track




• Knows business environment well enough to identify and proactively include the correct stakeholders




• Interacts regularly with senior management level stakeholders, and demonstrates value from realized projects

Solution Design

• Responsible to design and document cross-functional and global solutions, drawing on functional expertise of functional and technical team members or vendors, as appropriate




• Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, and champions good design practices

Documentation

• Documents and reviews broader team documentation




• Supports team in identifying and defining relevant documentation templates pertaining to solution delivery




• Is a champion for knowledge transfer to enable/empower other team members

Functional Design

• Develops functional designs for applications, integrations and conversions




• Ability to work on multiple functional areas and integrations with third party products




• Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities to produce robust functional designs




• Reviews functional designs and obtains sign-offs with the cross functional business and IT teams




• Provides inputs into business processes based on design capabilities




• Champions sustainable, forward-looking functional designs

Architecture

• N/A

Testing & Test Design

• Coordinates integration testing, validates test cases with stakeholders for user acceptance testing and training, and obtains sign-offs




• Coordinates defects clarification, triage and coordinate resolution with engineering teams

Project Management

• Manages multiple application releases and projects




• Manages stakeholder expectations




• Designs release scope and schedule in line with business goal, prioritization and IT capacity

System Configurations

• Configures applications in line with business goals




• Designs forward looking configurations by recognizing future needs aligned with the business roadmap




• Develops configuration standards

Day to Day Support (Production Support)

• Supports and trains junior resources and oversees quality in triage and troubleshooting practices




• Leads troubleshooting efforts on critical issues with cross functional teams through resolution




• Identifies improvements to address repeat issues

Training and Change Management

• Works with functional leadership teams to set expectations and conduct planning and execution of SME training activities




• Defines, communicates, and implements support and engagement plans




• Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve

Vendor Management

• Manages/leads individual consulting resources as assigned




• Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups

Vendor & Application Technology Evaluation

• Executes medium-scale vendor evaluations, pricing negotiations and software acquisitions




• Prepares management communications and gets stakeholder input for recommendations

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as Business Systems Analyst for Order to Cash processes




• Bachelor's in Information Systems, Business or related field




• Functional knowledge managing requirements and implementing system solutions in areas of Order Management, Orchestration is required




• Experience with products, pricing and billing systems is required




• Ability to document user stories and data flows is required




• Able to understand complex business processes and data from multiple business systems 




• Ability to drive cross functional discussions across global business groups and IT independently 




• Detail oriented and demonstrate ability to analyze complex problem statements




• Experience working in Agile Methodology

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.