Enterprise Analyst Lead

Job#: 3017251

Job Description:
Lead Enterprise Analyst

Location: Remote - candidates must reside in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah

Employment Type: Contract- 1 year

Pay Rate Range: $50/hr-$55/hr

About the Role

We're seeking a Lead Enterprise Analyst to own end-to-end business analysis across complex, cross-functional initiatives. You will elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the real needs of stakeholders-customers, business users, and technical partners-while ensuring requirements and processes align with enterprise goals. This role blends strategic leadership, hands-on analysis, and coaching/mentorship to elevate practices across the organization.

What You'll Do

Project & Requirements Leadership

• Lead the Concept phase with the project manager and sponsor to define the product vision, project scope, and high-level requirements.
• Identify project stakeholders and user classes; document characteristics and negotiate representative responsibilities.
• Plan and conduct requirements elicitation using interviews, document analysis, workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, competitive analysis, task/workflow analysis, and viewpoints.
• Write requirements specifications using standard templates-simple, clear, unambiguous, and concise.
• Decompose high-level business and user needs into functional and non-functional requirements (quality attributes, interfaces, constraints).
• Represent requirements via analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios where appropriate.
• Lead requirements analysis, verification, and peer reviews to ensure completeness, consistency, traceability, feasibility, and conformance to standards.
• Manage requirements in a commercial RM tool (define attributes, manipulate, report, and maintain traceability).
• Oversee change control for baselined requirements and track status across the lifecycle.

Enterprise Process & Architecture

• Bring an enterprise, cross-functional perspective to unify business requirements and streamline processes aligned to company goals and initiatives.
• Apply Enterprise Business Process Models & Engineering methods, tools, and metrics; lead logic diagramming and root cause analysis.
• Understand high-level application and business architecture within specified domain areas and collaborate on solution alignment.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate communication across the team, PMO, DTS, and business partners; ensure expectations are aligned and changes are communicated promptly.
• Provide timely management reporting on plans, estimates, deliverables, risks, and decisions.
• Serve as a coach/mentor to Business SMEs and Business Analysts on methodology, deliverables, and testing strategy/plan development and execution.

Leadership & Team Effectiveness

• Lead and facilitate Enterprise Analyst team activities; provide instruction and mentorship on scope, methods, tools, deliverable content, documents, and plans.
• Clarify roles and responsibilities; improve team workflows for repeatability and robust exception handling.
• Partner with Project Managers to align expectations, make recommendations, and resolve complex resource conflicts with Enterprise Analysis leadership.
• Oversee small projects or sub-projects as assigned by PMO Enterprise Analyst Management.

Change Management

• Consider enterprise-wide impacts of change in all deliverables and decisions; manage cross-functional boundaries and hand-offs.
• Follow established change control procedures, ensuring appropriate approvals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible industry experience involving business requirements, documentation, or business modeling, with familiarity in systems analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in:
  • Business analysis processes: requirements gathering, documentation, client relationship development.
  • Enterprise business process analysis/modeling, engineering methods, tools, and metrics.
  • Iterative Solution Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Testing techniques, tools, and solutions; Data Management techniques/tools.
  • Structured analysis and design methodologies, practices, and processes.
  • Large-scale systems integration and complex business modeling.
  • Communication: writing, presenting, listening, facilitating.
  • Problem resolution and conflict management.

What Success Looks Like

• Ability to discover the true requirements behind feature requests, align them with alternative technical and business approaches, and drive solutions that meet goals and constraints.
• Recognized IT leadership at project and program levels; thought leadership in requirements methodology and tooling.
• Proven ability to facilitate requirements activities for large, complex, and high-level groups across domain areas.
• Effective collaboration across divisions; facilitation between senior management, PMO, and business to prioritize and manage time commitments of project staff.
• Managerial experience leading others: planning, prioritizing, work definition, delegation, quality monitoring, and employee development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant domain experience in insurance, health care, or financial services.
• General knowledge of healthcare business processes and systems.
• Experience in a professional services environment (strongly desired).
• Familiarity with process modeling tools, logic diagrams, and requirements management platforms.

Work Location

• Remote; candidates must reside in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah.

EEO Employer

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.