JDE Senior Technical Functional Analyst

Description

Golden State Foods is a distinguished leader in the food service industry, offering an extensive array of products and services to a diverse clientele. Rooted in the values of quality service and integrity, we are dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where employees can advance, innovate, and contribute to our ongoing success.

The Sr. Technical Functional Analyst is accountable for delivering quality, comprehensive systems design, business requirements and business cases to the IT organization that will help to improve business efficiency and productivity once implemented.

Candidate will work in a corporate environment collaborating with managers and staff and should have a good understanding of core distribution processes such as:
Finance setups and processes, Sales orders to cash, procurement to payables processes, inventory, and working knowledge WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) in a distribution environment is helpful. Systems used, but not limited to: ERP- JD Edwards, WMS – JDA/Blue Yonder.

• Execute a standardized and structured methodology for eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and prioritizing business requirements.
• Conduct interviews, discovery workshops, and working sessions with business stakeholders and subject‑matter experts to capture detailed technical and functional requirements.
• Analyze existing business processes, system architectures, data flows, and integration points to identify gaps, dependencies, and optimization opportunities.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation including process models, workflows, data dictionaries, requirements specifications, and change requests.
• Perform data modeling, root‑cause analysis, and technical research to evaluate solution alternatives and define requirement specifications.
• Translate business needs into highly detailed requirements packages, functional specifications, and project briefs consumable by technical teams.
• Collaborate with business consultants to contribute to business cases, ROI analyses, and organizational justification documentation.
• Define and document system operations, user interactions, workflow behavior, and data presentation layers, and present technical solutions for stakeholder approval.
• Provide IT‑driven input to support the creation of business justification materials, and technology recommendations.
• Estimate and size enhancement efforts by partnering with architects, development teams, infrastructure, and support groups.

• Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical, functional, and business suitability.
• Create logical and innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Architect specific proposals for modified or replacement systems.
• Ensure applications are designed to support instrumentation objectives, rapid enhancement objectives and will provide superior user experiences.
• Produce project feasibility reports.
• Collaborate closely with Development, Technical, Functional, and business units to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
• Discuss findings with the business unit and design an appropriate improved IT solution.
• Present design proposals/solutions to clients.
• Proactively identify solutions to address potential systems, design, or business process issues and present to both IT and business stakeholders.
• Understand current system limitations, pain points, and identify technical and process solutions to address root causes of issues.

• Develop the testing schedule and plan for the solution.
• Create business and application use cases.
• Investigate new features of…