Application Modernization Practice is a horizontal practice, supporting all business verticals in Luxoft. We are looking for a Senior System Analyst who will be able to work with different domain zones.

For this project we have an ambitious goal to migrate a legacy system written in HLASM (High-Level Assembler) from the mainframe to a cloud-based Java environment for a big airline company in the USA.

Responsibilities

Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow;
Recovering the design, requirement specifications and functions of a system from an analysis of its code (currently High-Level Assembler, Cobol in the nearest future);
Translate non-technical requirements into clear technical specifications.
Convert low level code descriptions into meaningful functional requirements.
Organize requirements into features and stories.
Maintain knowledge base for the system and the project.
Participate in the optimization of internal team processes.

Skills

Must be ready to deep dive into High-Level Assembler code to reverse engineer requirements.
Must be able to provide concise and coherent documentation in English (target audience is native speakers);
Must be able to enhance requirements with models and diagrams as needed
We expect from the candidate:
At least 3 years of experience as System/Functional analyst.
Analytical mindset.
Understanding of and practical experience with different types of requirements and their representation.
Good understanding of non-functional requirements.
Ability to communicate in both business and technical languages.
High level of seniority when dealing with complex tasks.
Experience in analyzing and documenting integrations.
Experience of working on projects with international stakeholders (USA, UK).
Good theoretical and practical knowledge of analytical tools (functional/non-functional requirements, use cases, user stories, UML).

Nice to have

Experience with IBM zOS mainframe
Understanding of IBM High-Level Assembler, COBOL
Experience with microservices architecture, message brokers