Senior Solutions Analyst - Solution Design

The Senior Solutions Analyst serves as the solution-design bridge between business discovery and technical delivery on Phoenix Team’s Department of the Interior modernization program. Working primarily across data, integration, intake, financial-integrity, and automation initiatives, the role takes validated business requirements and future-state workflows and turns them into clear solution designs that Phoenix Team’s technical teams can prototype and build.

The strongest candidates combine senior solutions and systems analysis skills with an engineering or architecture mindset. They understand modern enterprise technology well enough to evaluate feasibility, identify enabling datasets and technical dependencies, ask strong technical questions, and keep business need, requirements, solution design, prototype, testing, and user acceptance aligned.

The Senior Solutions Analyst works in small cross-functional delivery pods, stays embedded with business and technical teammates throughout delivery, and uses LLMs and other AI tools to accelerate analysis, documentation, solution exploration, and lightweight prototyping and validation.

• Lead solution-focused discovery and process assessments with business analysts, process specialists, architects, data engineers, developers, and stakeholders to understand business needs, future-state workflows, dependencies, constraints, and implementation considerations.
• Translate validated requirements and future-state workflows into solution designs covering user interactions, business rules, data, enabling datasets, APIs and integrations, automation, low-code capabilities, and AI-enabled components.
• Identify source systems, enabling datasets, data-quality and validation needs, interface requirements, integration points, environment dependencies, and technical assumptions needed to make proposed solutions feasible and buildable.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from business need to requirement, solution design, prototype, test scenario, and user acceptance so evolving solutions remain aligned with the intended outcome.
• Evaluate solution approaches for feasibility, scalability, interoperability, security, accessibility, maintainability, and operational fit, and communicate technical options and tradeoffs clearly to business and technical stakeholders.
• Leverage LLMs and other AI tools to support research, analysis, solution documentation, solution exploration, and lightweight prototyping or validation.
• Produce and maintain solution-design artifacts such as solution diagrams, data flows, interface and integration requirements, validation rules, decision and assumption logs, and implementation guidance; provide solution context needed for downstream SOPs, job aids, and adoption materials.
• Stay embedded through prototyping, pilot testing, refinement, and user acceptance; evaluate whether prototypes satisfy requirements and help resolve gaps between the business need and delivered solution.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience in solutions analysis, systems analysis, solution design, technical consulting, architecture support, business systems analysis, or related modernization work.
• Demonstrated experience translating complex business requirements and future-state workflows into technical or functional solution designs for software, integration, automation, data, low-code, or AI-enabled initiatives.
• Experience leading or contributing substantially to discovery, process assessment, and solution-definition work in complex environments with multiple systems, data sources, integrations, or stakeholder groups.
• Broad working knowledge of enterprise applications, APIs and integrations, data modeling and data flows,…