Senior Technologist

Location: Arden Hills, MN (USA)

Job scope

Senior individual contributor within the Evolve product team. Leads analysis for high-complexity, cross-functional business and technology initiatives and influences decisions across product, process, application, integration, and data domains. Provides day-to-day leadership, mentoring, and work-product review for analysts and delivery partners. The BSA will be part of a WU Technology product team that typically works on annual IT budget of several million dollars supporting the Winfield United business.

Required Experience/Knowledge/Skills (to be able to perform this job)

• § Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered where consistent with company practice.
• § 10+ years of progressive experience in business systems analysis, systems analysis, product analysis, or a closely related role supporting complex enterprise solutions.
• § Demonstrated experience leading requirements and solution analysis for initiatives involving multiple applications, integrations, business processes, and data domains.
• § Advanced ability to produce clear functional and system requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process models, data mappings, interface specifications, and traceability artifacts.
• § Strong SQL skills, including writing and interpreting medium-to-complex queries for analysis, reconciliation, validation, troubleshooting, and data-quality assessment.
• § Hands-on experience analyzing APIs, interfaces, batch and event-driven integrations, file exchanges, data flows, error handling, and upstream/downstream system dependencies.
• § Experience in JD Edwards (JDE 9.2) – Sales and Distribution (Order to Cash) and Advanced pricing, including supporting business processes, system enhancements, integrations, or modernization initiatives.
• § Experience in Custom application development – Web Order management.
• § Working knowledge of software delivery life cycles, Agile product delivery, backlog management, testing practices, release readiness, production support, and incident/root-cause analysis.
• § Ability to define and evaluate nonfunctional requirements, including security, privacy, performance, availability, resiliency, auditability, usability, and operational support.
• § Perform root cause analysis for critical production issues and support issue resolution.
• § Proven ability to evaluate solution alternatives and communicate business value, technical feasibility, risk, dependencies, operational impacts, and tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• § Experience partnering effectively with product managers, architects, engineers, data and analytics teams, security, vendors, QA, operations, and senior business stakeholders.
• § Strong facilitation, structured problem-solving, written communication, negotiation, and executive-ready presentation skills.
• § Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and mentor other analysts while maintaining objective, consistent technical standards.

Preferred Experience

• § Experience modernizing or transforming complex business capabilities across legacy and cloud-based solutions.
• § Experience with enterprise business applications such as CRM, supply chain, customer, commerce, finance, or related platforms, including integrated and cloud-based environments.
• § Experience with process modeling, capability mapping, value-stream analysis, data visualization, API tools, requirements-management tools, and Agile delivery platforms.
• § Experience supporting vendor evaluations, RFPs, build-versus-buy analysis, proofs of concept, or technology selection.
• § Experience identifying and shaping AI-enabled, analytics, or automation use cases with appropriate data, architecture, security, and adoption considerations.
• Salary range: $107,680 - $161,520 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges)
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