Business Systems Analyst Lead
- Job Tracking ID : 83080-365101
- Job Level : Any
- Level of Education : BA/BS
- Job Type : Full-Time/Hybrid
- Date Updated : 06/25/2025
- Years of Experience : Not Applicable
- Will this position have direct reports? : false
Job Description
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
Duties:
- Participate in or facilitate business requirements collection and support business cases, cost estimate and RFP (Request for Proposal) development in support of IT projects and initiatives.
- Lead business requirements gathering, analysis, and transition of business needs into a software production environment.
- Facilitate communication between IT, business units and clients.
- Act as liaison between business units and internal partners/external vendors by providing accurate and timely updates to all stakeholders and taking a proactive role in solution definition.
- Assist business partners to identify and clarify their goals and IT requirements.
- Conduct requirements gathering, analysis and design, risk analysis, risk mitigation, programming / construction, unit testing and transition of applications into a production environment.
- Produce concisely written and detailed business requirements.
- Translate business requirements to functional and technical specifications.
- Analyze and develop applications to meet business process initiatives.
- Define and document business process requirements through written external/internal specifications.
- Define parameters and turn into concrete cost estimates, outcomes and project scope.
- Communicate technical solutions across departments to both technical and non-technical staff.
- Conduct regularly scheduled reviews of newly proposed and existing projects to ensure quality and accuracy is delivered to end users.
- Ensure delivery of IT solution is on schedule and fully functional.
- Oversee submission of change requests and production releases and weekly status reports.
- Identify and implement productivity and quality control improvements.
- Ensure integrated requirements management across multiple IT groups and SBUs (strategic business units)/FCEs (functional centers of excellence).
- Apply industry-standard analysis and documentation techniques to assist in organizing project work.
- Follow SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) processes.
- Mentor junior staff members in business and technical analysis techniques, processes and procedures.
- May work remotely 3 days per week within normal commuting distance of Princeton, NJ.
Experience and Skills
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, information systems, information processing or a related field and six years of post-baccalaureate experience in IT project management, business analysis or software development.
Experience must include the following skills: software testing standards, practices, methods and tools; information and data analysis; database technologies to run, extract and transform data, and technical and business terminology to consult with clients, vendors and other internal staff.
The required skills do not need to be maintained over the full term of required experience.
Salary range: $114,254/year - $159,000/year
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
- We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
- We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. Â In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. Â At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.