Sr Systems Analyst

job summary:

Ensuring the product team is building the right software solutions and components to improve customer experience

Facilitating flow of requirements from the business to the technology team, translating complex HPS platform needs into actionable user stories and sprint-ready backlog items

Owning end-to-end documentation of the HPS Platform - system flows, data mappings, microservice integration contracts, API migration guides, and release notes maintained in Confluence

Driving API version migration analysis - documenting breaking changes, coordinating consumer impact assessments, validating updated contracts using Bruno/Postman, ensuring smooth cutover across dependent microservices

Leading Splunk-based observability efforts - building dashboards, defining alert thresholds, and performing log analysis to proactively detect and triage production incidents

Driving release management coordination: scheduling, readiness reviews, deployment communication, and post-release validation

Reducing requirements and design risk and resulting costs associated with rework and redesign through rigorous upfront analysis

Working with developers to support and validate REST API contracts, JSON payloads, Kafka event flows, and AWS service integrations

Exercising a passion for keeping your knowledge up-to-date with the latest and greatest in platform tooling, AWS capabilities, and financial technology

Helping maintain the high level of integrity in the team

Taking ownership and accountability for figuring out what needs to be done

location: Westlake, Texas

job type: Contract

salary: $58 - 59 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

• 6-9 years of professional experience, supporting software solutions in a financial services or enterprise technology environment
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technology subject area
• Strong working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON payloads, and API integration patterns across distributed microservices
• Hands-on experience testing and validating REST APIs using tools such as Bruno, Postman, or equivalent - including building request collections, validating response contracts, and debugging API failures
• Experience with API versioning strategies and hands-on participation in API version migration efforts - including impact analysis, consumer communication, contract comparison, and regression validation across microservices
• Proven knowledge of Splunk for log analysis, incident investigation, distributed tracing across microservices, and building dashboards and alert monitors for production observability
• Experience with AWS services including Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SQS, and event driven architectures (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis streams)
• Familiarity with Java/Spring Boot microservice architecture for the purpose of analysis, reverse engineering, and documentation (hands-on coding not required)
• Proficiency in creating system flow diagrams, process maps, data mapping documents, microservice dependency maps, and solution architecture documentation
• Expertise writing detailed business and technical requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for complex platform changes
• Understanding of Structured Query Language (SQL) and ability to trace data across relational and NoSQL data stores
• Solid understanding of functional and integration testing concepts; experience with tools like Cypress or equivalent is a plus
• Deep knowledge of scrum methodologies and tools - Jira experience required; Confluence documentation experience required
• Release coordination experience: managing deployment readiness, scheduling, cross-team communication, and post-release validation
• Test data generation experience, including tools like Hexawise or equivalent, is a plus
• AI/ML product awareness (e.g., supervised learning models, recommendation systems) is a bonus

qualifications:

You are a diligent person with a real passion for accuracy, clarity, and elimination of ambiguity

You are deeply effective in written and verbal communications and are dedicated to tailoring content to the appropriate audience (business vs. technology, associate vs. management, etc.)

You are a self-starter who can rapidly assimilate complex microservice platform architecture, business processes, goals, and objectives and distill them into well-defined requirements

You understand how technology can automate business processes and can effectively propose, challenge, and engage in ideation with business and technology teams in formulating software designs and solutions

You are capable of working directly with REST APIs using tools like Bruno or Postman to independently validate, test, and analyze microservice behavior without requiring developer handholding

You can navigate Splunk to independently investigate log trails, trace failures across service boundaries, and communicate findings clearly to developers and partners

You excel at creating and maintaining Confluence documentation - from architecture overviews to detailed runbooks, API migration guides, onboarding docs, and process flows

You assist in identification, isolation, resolution, and communication of problems within production and non-production environments and perform root-cause troubleshooting

You are flexible and can adjust your work schedule to accommodate both U.S. and India[ based teams and associates

Good interpersonal and leadership and influencing skills (without direct authority of others)

Determined, self-managed, energetic, passionate, and motivated with the ability to work independently to deliver results

skills:

S3,SQS,AWS-based,AWS service,AWS,Kafka,APIs,API,AI,Confluence,Cypress,data mapping,data stores,distributed tracing,event driven architectures,computer science,integration testing,tools - Jira,JSON,Java,log analysis,versioning,microservices,distributed microservices,microservice architecture,microservice,NoSQL,Postman,recommendation systems,release management,REST APIs,REST API,reverse engineering,Structured Query Language (SQL),scrum methodologies,hands-on coding,debugging,software solutions,Splunk,Spring Boot,Step Functions,supervised learning,Test data,analytical,meticulous,communication,hard-working,dedicated,diligent,leadership,making personal connections,passionate,passion,energetic,Determined,influencing skills,self-starter,self-managed,ability to work independently,proactively,deliver results,acceptance criteria,architecture,automate,process maps,business processes,software designs,customer experience,building dashboards,deployment readiness,distill,end-to-end documentation,downstream processing,financial technology,flow diagrams,ideation,impact assessments,impact analysis,incident investigation,innovative,Kinesis,financial services,Investments,Personal Investing,cross-team communication,payloads,product awareness,production observability,verbal communications,release notes,Retail,scheduling,Solutions Engineering,solution architecture,testing,triage,user stories

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact


Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.