API Management Business Sys Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title:  API Governance Business Systems Analyst

Location: Buffalo, NY

Pay Range: $40.00/hour

Work Type:  Full-time 

Work Model:  Hybrid (4 days a week at the office)

No C2C, C2H, 1099 or Visa Sponsorship/Transfer available

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

Our client is looking for an Business Systems Analyst (BSA) with a strong understanding of API Management and experience working at the intersection of business and technology. This is a highly strategic and autonomous role supporting Engineering Excellence team, with a focus on building out cross-cutting engineering programs, including open-source tooling and enterprise API governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage API inventory. 
  • Working with application security teams to pull discovered API endpoint data from their scanning tools
  • Populate the data into our central repository
  • Identify API owners
  • Establish workflow processes with our ServiceNow team to ensure API owners are keeping data up to date
  • Facilitating regular completeness reviews
  • Expanding data integrations
  • Working with the API portal team to present inventory data in our catelog, etc. 
  • Be the responsible party for ensuring our inventory of APIs used and developed is complete, accurate, and available for internal reference.
• Act as the primary liaison between architecture, security, product teams, and business stakeholders.
• Develop and document repeatable processes that are clearly understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Lead or assist in the creation of materials; Tech Talk slide decks, visual workflows to educate and align stakeholders.
• Provide program-level tracking and support across 3–4 key initiatives simultaneously.
• Contribute to the build out of a newly formed Open Source Office, including frameworks for responsible usage and contributions.
• Regular weekly check-ins; otherwise, a self-directed and high trust work environment.
• Communication expectations include regular updates and openness to feedback or iteration as the program evolves.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 2 - 4 years' experience as a Business Systems Analyst - API with business and technical fluency.
• Strong understanding of APIs (REST, SOAP, metadata) and API management.
• Able to self-managed, proactively pushing work forward with minimal oversight.
• Exceptional communication skills, verbal and written, to work with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Research-focused mindset and independently identify the right stakeholders and industry standards.
• Strong documentation and presentation development skills; ie: slide decks, process maps, PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Banking industry experience or highly regulated industry.
• Tooling and processes related to Open-Source Office initiatives.
• Program tracking, strategy alignment, and multi-stream planning.
• Engineering excellence frameworks, or open-source contribution strategies.
• Working with Scrum teams or agile environment.