Sr. Applications Analyst

Salary: USD
85000 - USD
95000 per year

Schedule
:
Fully onsite
Salary Range: $85k - $95k (depending on experience)
Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Applications Analyst to support, optimize, and enhance enterprise applications that are critical to business operations. This role will serve as a key connection point between business stakeholders, IT teams, leadership, and vendors to ensure applications and systems are reliable, scalable, and aligned with organizational priorities.

The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of enterprise application support, systems analysis, troubleshooting, technical development, and stakeholder management
. You will evaluate existing systems, identify opportunities for improvement, support application implementations and enhancements, and help translate business needs into practical technology solutions.

This position also plays a role in strengthening product management practices across the organization, including portfolio planning, prioritization, governance, roadmaps, and measurement of business value.

What You'll Do

• Support, maintain, and optimize enterprise business applications and associated systems.
• Partner with business leaders, IT teams, end users, and vendors to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex application and system issues, identify root causes, and drive issues through resolution.
• Evaluate existing applications and systems for effectiveness, efficiency, compatibility, and opportunities for improvement.
• Design, implement, and support enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Support enterprise application testing, including new implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and applications being evaluated for purchase.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and end-user reviews for new or modified systems.
• Perform cost-benefit and ROI analysis to support technology investment and implementation decisions.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, troubleshooting procedures, training materials, and end-user documentation.
• Partner with department leaders to identify application training needs and support the development and delivery of training.
• Maintain detailed documentation of application issues, troubleshooting activities, decisions, and resolutions.
• Apply diagnostic and technical tools to investigate and resolve application issues.
• Support system security, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• Help establish and improve product management standards, governance, roadmaps, prioritization, and intake processes.
• Translate strategic business objectives into product and technology initiatives with clearly defined requirements and measurable outcomes.
• Track KPIs, portfolio performance, roadmap progress, and value realization, communicating results and recommendations to leadership.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, application trends, and opportunities to improve the organization's technology environment.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant IT, applications, systems analysis, or enterprise technology experience.
• Hands‑on experience supporting and maintaining enterprise and desktop applications
  .
• Experience working with business systems such as CRM, HR/HCM, financial, and Microsoft-based applications
  .
• Experience building, maintaining, configuring, or enhancing software applications.
• Strong application troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and problem‑solving skills.
• Working knowledge of SQL and/or No
  
  SQL databases
  .
• Experience working with databases…