System Analyst Team Lead

Overview

Job Description

System Analyst Team Lead

Summary

• A senior technical role responsible for the specification layer between product and engineering.
• Produces authoritative, implementation-grade technical artifacts and sets the standard for analysis quality across the team.
• **Responsibilities:**
• Produce primary technical artifacts (BPMN flows, UML diagrams: sequence, state, class, activity, component, deployment, data flow, ER models, system context diagrams).
• Own API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), event schemas, integration mappings, and data transformation specifications as direct engineering inputs.
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements (throughput, latency SLAs, concurrency, fault tolerance, failover, security boundaries).
• Maintain system documentation as a live asset (integration points, state machines, data contracts).
• Drive architectural clarity with Engineering Leads, surfacing ambiguity and resolving technical gaps pre-sprint.
• Lead design walkthroughs and specification reviews, acting as the technical authority to resolve conflicts and ensure engineering readiness.
• Own traceability of technical specifications and documentation.
• Define and enforce documentation standards, modeling conventions, and specification quality gates.
• Mentor and develop SA team members in technical modeling, systems thinking, and precision communication.
• **Qualifications:**
• 8+ years in a senior technical analyst or solution design role, with at least 3 years in a lead or principal capacity.
• Proven track record in high-concurrency, high-availability financial systems (brokerage, trading, or capital markets preferred).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems (event-driven design, transactional integrity, eventual consistency, fault isolation).
• Hands-on experience designing and documenting complex microservices architectures.
• Experience operating in regulated environments, with embedded compliance/audit traceability in design.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• **Core Skills:**
• Expert-level UML and BPMN for implementation quality diagrams (sequence, state machine, activity, class).
• API contract design (OpenAPI/Swagger, REST/async patterns, event schema design: Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema).
• Understanding of code (preferably Python)
• Basic understanding of technologies like, Kubernetes, Kafka, Airflow, and relational/document data models.
• End-to-end systems thinking (domain modelling, edge case identification, failure mode analysis).
• Precise, unambiguous technical writing and modelling for engineering audiences.
• Established leadership credibility within cross-functional engineering teams.

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