Senior Systems Configuration Analyst - Payment Systems

Senior Systems Configuration Analyst

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via Fed Line® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), Fed Cash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the Fed Now® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to customer experience, operations, technology, product and customer/industry management, enterprise services, payments system improvement, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the Fed Now instant payment service.

Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of FRFS customers across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The FRFS Enterprise operates with a customer-first mindset, comprised of team members seeking to do the best work of their careers in pursuit of our important central bank mission.

This position is responsible for business application configuration, setup, maintenance, testing, analysis and troubleshooting in support of a comprehensive suite of FRFS products, including Fedwire Funds and Securities. The Sr. Systems Configuration Analyst demonstrates advanced understanding of business application systems supporting multiple Federal Reserve's financial services offerings, the setup of routine to complex processing and accounting relationships for thousands of financial institutions within these systems in order to properly process and settle financial transactions, provides complex operational and technical support, and is a primary resource for troubleshooting or solving complex application and operational problems.

Successful execution of duties requires obtaining and authenticating financial institution documentation; impact analysis and manipulation of business applications to establish, close, or merge financial institution accounting and settlement accounts and relationships; engage, educate and consult with financial institution accounting, business systems and technical resources to analyze business application configuration and setup, assess impact and ensure proper financial transaction processing and settlement;

and collaborate and coordinate with various internal (FRS) system groups and partners that support interfacing business application systems.

The position will be primarily on-site with residency commutable to one of our offices required.

Key Responsibilities:

Independently coordinates and performs business application configuration, setup, maintenance, testing, analysis and troubleshooting in various Federal Reserve systems which may include: accounting and settlement agreements, correspondent/respondent relationship agreements, mergers, retired and failed financial institutions for Fedwire Funds and Securities payment services. This involves performing due diligence, business application systems research and analysis, processing, accounting and settlement configuration and testing, internal and external stakeholder follow-up, hosting conference calls to analyze, complete, verify and confirm requested application and accounting system configuration changes in all applicable systems.

Serves as a primary point of contact for the customer and internal stakeholders, addressing inquiries and providing timely support throughout the process. Collaborates with customers to understand their requirements and objectives. May serve as lead on special projects or assignments that require advanced analytical and/or project management skills and technical acumen. Must be able to meet established service level agreements and quality measures.

Troubleshoots to resolve complex issues related to customer setup. This includes researching and documenting the issue, evaluating the severity, determining, and…