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
