Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Simon & Schuster is a global publishing company dedicated to providing fiction and nonfiction in print, digital, and audio formats. The Lead Systems Analyst will bridge business operations and the modernization engineering team for the UOPS order-processing platform, documenting legacy behavior, translating requirements, validating replacements, and coordinating business sign-off for production cutovers.
Responsibilities
- Discovery and documentation — Work with business and technical teams to document required functionality, production usage, business rules, interfaces, reports, and dependencies for each modernization module, using AI-assisted analysis and documentation tooling to accelerate the work
- Usage validation and retirement analysis — Determine which legacy programs, jobs, reports, and interfaces are still used and still needed; build the evidence case for retiring what is not; obtain business-owner approval for retirement decisions
- Requirements translation — Convert business requirements and legacy behavior into clear, testable solution requirements that engineers can implement directly: data mappings, business-rule specifications, acceptance criteria, and edge-case definitions
- Prioritization with the business — Run recurring priority reviews with business stakeholders; translate operational pain (failures, delays, manual workarounds) into modernization sequencing
- Validation and cutover sign-off — Review reconciliation and parallel-run results (first-pass data comparison is performed by the QA / Test Automation Engineer) from the business perspective: confirm that differences are explained, that required business behavior is preserved, and that edge cases the business cares about are covered. Coordinate business user testing and provide the business sign-off that gates each production cutover
- Stakeholder communication — Serve as the credible, consistent voice between the modernization team and the business users who depend on the system daily: what is changing, when, and why it is safe
Skills
- **7+ years of business/systems analysis experience**, including significant experience on large-scale order processing, fulfillment, or supply-chain systems
- **Experience with EDI, order processing, and shipment-confirmation processing for large-scale distribution or publishing operations** — including order intake and acknowledgements, distribution/warehouse orchestration, and invoicing flows
- **Experience using AI tools for discovery and documentation** — e.g., AI-assisted code or system analysis, requirements extraction, or documentation generation — and the judgment to validate AI output against real system behavior
- **Demonstrated ability to work effectively with both business users and engineers** — comfortable eliciting requirements from operations staff in business language and defending those requirements in technical design discussions
- **Proven ability to translate business requirements into coding/solution requirements** — data mappings, rule specifications, and acceptance criteria precise enough for direct implementation and test automation
- Strong analytical writing: able to produce documentation that becomes the authoritative record of system behavior
- The judgment to distinguish a true business rule from a historical implementation accident
- Publishing-industry experience
- Experience on a legacy-modernization, system-replacement, or platform-migration program
- Exposure to legacy or mainframe-style environments (e.g., COBOL-era batch systems) — enough familiarity to work effectively with legacy specialists when documenting system behavior. No programming or code-reading skills required
- Familiarity with SQL — able to read queries and data-reconciliation reports and reason about data-level parity between systems
- Familiarity with batch scheduling environments (AutoSys or similar) and overnight batch operations
- Experience with warehouse management (WMS), 3PL, or drop-ship integration workflows
- Experience coordinating user acceptance testing and production cutover approvals
Benefits
- This role can be in-person, hybrid or fully remote
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance coverage
- Disability benefits
- Tuition assistance program
- PTO, if applicable
- Access to Simon & Schuster's Broad Based Ownership program, which makes all employees partners in shared success
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