Senior Technical Business Analyst – Legacy Modernization

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Project Name: ACCIS /CAPS Online

The Senior Technical Business Analyst Legacy Modernization will serve as the single point of convergence between a missioncritical decadesold ACCIS legacy ecosystem and multiple concurrent modernization compliance and stabilization initiatives. This role requires deep historical knowledge of legacy client/server architectures the ability to reverseengineer undocumented business logic and the capacity to translate that logic into forwardcompatible regulatorily compliant webbased solutions without service interruption.
The candidate must simultaneously function as a business analyst systems analyst functional architect testing lead and defacto institutional knowledge holder for subsidized childcare systems operating at municipal and state scale.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Legacy System Decomposition and Reverse Engineering

Conduct forensic-level analysis of the existing ACCIS legacy platform including undocumented PowerBuilder code embedded business rules hard-coded eligibility thresholds historical payment calculations and exception handling logic accumulated over multiple decades.
Reconstruct implicit system behavior by analyzing source code database schemas triggers stored procedures batch jobs scheduler logic and historical defect records.
Produce exhaustive functional and technical documentation that captures both intended and emergent system behaviors including edge cases that only manifest under rare policy enrollment or payment conditions.

Business Analysis with Concurrent Hands-On Development Responsibilities

Serve simultaneously as Senior Business Analyst and hands-on technical contributor within the legacy and modernization environments.
Independently create modify and debug SQL queries and database objects as needed to confirm system behavior and support requirement validation.
Participate directly in the troubleshooting of modernization components (e.g. .NET Core services REST APIs Angular components) to ensure exact functional parity with legacy logic.
Translate business and regulatory requirements into both formal documentation and executable technical implementations.

Business and Technical Requirements Authoring

Develop highly granular business functional non-functional and technical requirements that preserve legacy parity while enabling incremental modernization.
Translate complex regulatory language policy manuals and operational practices into system-enforceable rules.
Author requirements that explicitly map legacy ACCIS logic to future-state architectures including one-to-one one-to-many and many-to-one functional transformations.
Independently validate requirements against live production behavior to ensure no deviation from existing eligibility enrollment or payment outcomes.

Conflicting Compliance Delivery and Operational Mandates

Simultaneously ensure strict regulatory compliance audit readiness and policy fidelity while meeting aggressive delivery timelines that may require expedited releases and limited regression windows.
Balance competing directives to modernize functionality while maintaining absolute backward compatibility even when such directives introduce technical or operational contradictions.
Absorb and resolve conflicting guidance from policy authorities auditors business leadership and technical teams without delaying delivery or increasing production risk.

Quality Assurance UAT and Production Safeguards

Design and maintain exhaustive test scenarios test cases and acceptance criteria derived directly from legacy system behavior.
Coordinate parallel QA and UAT efforts across legacy and modernized platforms ensuring identical outputs under identical inputs.
Personally validate high-risk scenarios involving financial disbursements retroactive adjustments recoupments provider rate changes and eligibility recalculations.
Ensure zero disruption to childcare subsidy payments eligibility determinations and compliance reporting throughout all releases.

Reporting Analysis and Continuous Improvement

Analyze system data and operational outputs to identify inefficiencies inconsistencies and technical debt embedded in the legacy environment.
Develop management-level reports that clearly articulate risks dependencies and downstream impacts of system changes.
Recommend modernization approaches that balance technical feasibility regulatory risk budgetary constraints and operational readiness.

MANDATORY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Legacy Technology Mastery

Minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience specifically with PowerBuilder (client/server object-oriented event-driven) including direct source code modification and debugging.
Minimum of 6 years of experience working with IBM Informix databases including SQL optimization schema analysis stored procedures triggers and batch processing.
Demonstrated experience interpreting legacy financial eligibility and payment logic embedded directly in application code rather than configuration.

Government Program Domain Expertise

Minimum of 6 years of specialized experience working with subsidized childcare systems or closely related public assistance programs at the municipal or state government level.
Direct experience with eligibility determination provider payments enrollment management audits and regulatory compliance.

Modern Web and API Development

Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience developing or Core services.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with REST API design documentation and testing.
Minimum of 4 years of experience with Angular and modern JavaScript frameworks.

Integration and Middleware Technologies

Minimum of 4 years of experience with IBM MQ and IBM Broker or equivalent enterprise messaging platforms.
Demonstrated experience documenting and validating asynchronous event-driven integrations.

Business Analysis Tools DevOps and Delivery

Minimum of 6 years of experience using JIRA and Azure DevOps for requirements management defect tracking and release coordination.
Expert-level proficiency with Balsamiq MS Visio MS Excel MS Word and Adobe Pro.
Hands-on experience with API testing tools such as Postman.

Full Lifecycle and Role Compression

Minimum of 6 years of experience simultaneously performing business analysis technical analysis development support testing coordination and stakeholder management within the same role.
Proven ability to operate without clear role boundaries in high-risk compliance-driven environments.

Data Modeling and Prototyping

Minimum of 5 years of experience designing data models performing detailed data mapping from legacy systems and creating functional and technical prototypes that accurately represent both current and future states.

PREFERRED (Highly Desired) QUALIFICATIONS

Prior experience working on the ACCIS system or an equivalent legacy childcare subsidy platform.
Demonstrated ability to operate with minimal documentation limited SME availability and incomplete historical records.
Proven success in environments with zero tolerance for payment errors regulatory violations or production outages.

If you are interested in getting more information about this opportunity please contact Irina Rozenbergat your earliest convenience.

At Ariel Partners we solve the most difficult problems that inhibit technology from enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our vision is to be recognized by our stakeholders as an elite provider of IT solutions so when they have their biggest challenges we are on their short list. We are looking for team members who share our values of: Integrity to do the right thing even when it hurts; Commitment to the long-term success and happiness of our customers our people and our partners; Courage to take on difficult challenges accept new ideas and accept incremental failure; and the constant pursuit of Excellence. Ariel Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer in accordance with federal state and local laws.

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Project Name: ACCIS /CAPS OnlineThe Senior Technical Business Analyst Legacy Modernization will serve as the single point of convergence between a missioncritical decadesold ACCIS legacy ecosystem and multiple concurrent modernization compliance and stabilization initiatives. This role requires dee...

Conduct forensic-level analysis of the existing ACCIS legacy platform including undocumented PowerBuilder code embedded business rules hard-coded eligibility thresholds historical payment calculations and exception handling logic accumulated over multiple decades.
Reconstruct implicit system behavior by analyzing source code database schemas triggers stored procedures batch jobs scheduler logic and historical defect records.
Produce exhaustive functional and technical documentation that captures both intended and emergent system behaviors including edge cases that only manifest under rare policy enrollment or payment conditions.