Senior IT Business Analyst - JDE - Military veterans preferred

Colonial Group, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior IT Business Analyst. This senior role will be responsible for analyzing, architecting, supporting, and delivering capabilities that align to business goals. The ideal candidate will possess extensive operational experience and IT Enterprise Architecture skills for designing, implementing, and managing enterprise ERP solutions and capabilities. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders across departments to identify business needs, analyze processes, and recommend technology-driven solutions that deliver measurable value. This is a critical role that bridges business strategy and technology execution.

JOB EXPECTATIONS/DUTIES

Business Integration, Technology Architecture Design & Implementation

• Strong communication, listening, and analytical skills to understand business challenges and identify solutions.

• Lead stakeholders sessions to elicit and optimize business requirements, processes, and workflows.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, and user story mapping sessions.

• Subject matter expertise, with cross functional design and implementation experience.
• Develop and document technical architectures, system designs, and implementation plans.
• Develop platform/capability roadmaps to ensure architectural integrity and operational stability across the entire environment.

Portfolio & Capability ownership

• Provide broad functional support for our Enterprise Resource Planning portfolio providing cross functional integration and capability.
• Collaborate with business units to best leverage existing technology platforms, or implementing and integrating new solutions.
• Collect business requirements, perform feasibility analysis, find gaps, define scope and design.
• Support project managers in developing business cases, scope, timelines, and resource plans.
• Oversee the configuration, optimization, and maintenance of core technology portfolios.
• Acts as a liaison between end users and development teams, ensuring that technology is installed or configured in a way that supports business objectives and meets user needs.
• Support integration testing and post-implementation validation.
• Advise on the configuration and setup of master data.
• Lead subject matter experts: employees, functional consultants, and contractors who have varying levels of expertise.
• Mentor / coach analysts and contribute to the continuous improvement of both IT and business analysis practices.

Vendor Management

• Manage and collaborate with vendor consultants through the design and integration phases of new solution implementations.
• Responsible for understanding vendor roadmaps and their impact to our overall portfolio.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years’ experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting large ERP portfolios
• • Technical requirements documentation.
  • Technical skills with SQL queries and scripts.
  • Testing (development unit testing through user acceptance testing).
  • Working across multiple IT teams (integrations, reporting, etc.).
  • Ability to analyze issues, determine a solution, gain business approval, and implement solution.
• Strong business acumen to architect, deploy, optimize technology solutions for the business.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• Hands-On Experience with databases, middleware, and integration technologies.
• Expertise in core ERP functions and integrations (Finance, Material Management, Logistics etc.).
• Experience with planning and executing enterprise upgrades.
• Experience with mergers and acquisitions to include migrating 3rd party systems to our ERP solutions (JDEdwards or PDI Enterprise 1).
• Proven track record of working with users and driving requirements and workflows.
• Proficient in database SQL queries, data extracts, V-Lookups, Analysis of data, etc.
• Experience with, or integrating to, ERP’s like JDEdwards, PDI Enterprise, SAP, or Oracle Netsuite.
• Experience with PowerBi or similar analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Preferred: Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), or Agile certifications (e.g., Scrum Master, Product Owner) are a plus.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.