Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities

• Partner with Legal Strategy & Shared Services to define clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for multiple initiatives.
• Plan and coordinate delivery activities including scope, sequencing, dependencies, risk management, milestone planning, and release readiness.
• Translate legal and operational needs into well-defined, compliant, and documented technology solutions.
• Drive execution by tracking progress, managing issues, and supporting on-time delivery of commitments.
• Cook up coordination across legal stakeholders, engineering teams, vendors, and delivery partners to ensure alignment and continuity.
• Support and improve vendor-hosted and SaaS solutions, including integrations, data flows, and records management.
• Collaborate with Legal Platform Strategy on incidents, service requests, releases, and outages.
• Create and manage Jira stories, backlog, boards, and sprints.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and remove non-technical blockers.
• Contribute to modernization efforts to replace and integrate applications across the CORE Legal portfolio.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience as a Systems Analyst or Business Analyst in regulated environments.
• Proven ownership of requirements definition, solution analysis, and delivery coordination across complex initiatives.
• Background partnering with Legal, Risk, Compliance, or Corporate Services organizations.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle from planning through release.
• Experience with dependency management, milestone planning, and release readiness.
• Working knowledge of data privacy, records retention, security, and compliance for legal systems.
• Experience with vendor-hosted or SaaS solutions and system integrations.
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable requirements and documentation.
• Comfort with APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, and data flows.
• Hands-on Jira experience managing backlogs, boards, sprints, and scrum ceremonies.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills and the ability to balance multiple initiatives.