Description
Analyze business processes, data flows, and user needs to design, specify, and improve information systems that support organizational objectives and decision-making. Collect and validate requirements and data, and configure, integrate, or recommend software solutions. May plan and document architectures and workflows to optimize performance, cost, and implementation logistics.
- • Elicit and model business processes, use cases, data entities, constraints, and nonfunctional requirements.
- • Collaborate with business, engineering, and vendors to implement approved system solutions.
- • Analyze stakeholder input to define system requirements and clarify operational issues.
- • Plan and execute system testing and validation; refine requirements and designs as needed.
- • Align system capabilities with business objectives, compliance, and security requirements.
- • Define data and integration needs; profile, map, and validate data for accuracy and completeness.
- • Evaluate solution options, perform feasibility and cost-benefit analyses, and recommend approaches.
- • Produce requirements documents, functional specs, user stories, and status reports with recommendations.
- • Decompose systems into components, interfaces, and data flows; define dependencies and interaction logic.
- • Specify business rules, process logic, and configuration parameters for systems.
- • Map current-state processes and systems through observation, interviews, and metrics analysis.
- • Prototype or pilot system changes when requirements are uncertain, and evaluate outcomes.
- • Support project planning with requirements traceability, release scopes, and implementation plans.
- • Define and document standard operating procedures, workflows, and configuration standards.
- • Present findings, solution designs, and test results to stakeholders and end users.
- • Train users and support adoption through documentation, demos, and change management.
- • Stay current with relevant technologies, standards, and best practices.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
