Business Systems Analyst 3 (N-IT) (11650)
Vancouver, Washington - Added Sep 19th, 2025
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Senior Business Systems Analyst (Hybrid)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Business Systems Analyst for their Vancouver, Washington location. In this role, you will perform systems analysis, interface with users to support functional requirements development, analysis of tools and techniques to support the development of systems, troubleshooting, analysis, performance monitoring and improvement of systems used by the Operations functions.
This hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits. If you think this position aligns with your professional experience, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Business Systems Analyst:
Requirements for Business Systems Analyst:
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
AG / BH13450
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Business Systems Analyst for their Vancouver, Washington location. In this role, you will perform systems analysis, interface with users to support functional requirements development, analysis of tools and techniques to support the development of systems, troubleshooting, analysis, performance monitoring and improvement of systems used by the Operations functions.
This hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits. If you think this position aligns with your professional experience, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Business Systems Analyst:
- Develop, draft, recommend, and document management-approved processes and procedures to support NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) Mandatory Reliability standards CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) and Department of Energy NIST/FISMA (National Institute of Standards and Technology/Federal Information Security Management Act) security requirements.
- Provide draft closure evidence to the internal Security and Compliance Team (SCT) for all CIP standards.
- Provide quality data management and stewardship.
- Perform review and verification of Control Center (CC) compliance with regulations from FISMA, DOE, WECC, NERC, and FERC.
- Provide draft narratives for various compliance driven data requests.
- Arrange, facilitate / conduct, and document team meetings.
- Participate in improvement efforts, providing recommendations and hands-on assistance with position-related quality, compliance, or efficiency improvements.
- Maintain a high-level overview of the complex inter-connected data systems that make up the Change and Configuration Management (CCM) Program.
- Attend meetings, conferences, and seminars to support the customer needs.
- Serve as POC and technical lead for the team preparing for, carrying out, validating, and documenting all information technology (IT) changes to hardware, software and database schemas for the Control Center.
- Track and monitor the Request for Change (RFC) Queue; verify pre and post testing has been performed by the appropriate Resource Managers (RM).
- Analyze system infrastructures, functional requirements, and technical capabilities for system acquisitions.
- Develop / draft or review specifications, verifying that all essential requirements are documented.
- Distribute requirements to hardware and software configuration items or manual operations using appropriate modeling techniques including automated structured analysis tools.
- Review the logical top-level design for applications and information systems (including test plans and procedures).
- Verify that project software specifications, interface requirement specifications, and software development plans are correct and of adequate scope
- Collaborate with other IT CM Specialists to share best practices, provide recommendations and assistance on critical needs, and coordinate on Transmission-wide initiatives.
- Review and validate that configuration management policies and procedures provide thorough requirements traceability through version release and adequate documentation to support system operation and maintenance.
- Develop / draft plans and recommend operations’ schedules, staffing requirements, and resource allocations for projects.
- Document detailed programs while applying applicable standards to all products.
- Identify and recommend training needs and include major areas of uncertainty in approach, methodology, or interpretation and evaluation processes resulting from such elements as continuing changes in program, technological developments, unknown phenomena, or conflicting requirements.
- Assist management with implementing a Training Plan that successfully allows the user community to efficiently and effectively use a new system or upgraded system.
- Prepare, draft, and recommend program presentations, in-house and client training, and functional education; arrange, conduct, and facilitate management-approved presentations and training sessions.
- Develop and present recommendations and supporting analysis for management decisions.
- Prepare technical reports, documents, studies, and system documentation as required.
- As requested, develop technical system concepts and designs to support proposal development and position papers.
Requirements for Business Systems Analyst:
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Systems, Engineering, Arts, Science or a directly related technical field is preferred.
- With an applicable Associate’s degree, 10 years of experience required.
- With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience is required.
- Without an applicable degree, 12 years of experience is required.
- Experience should include demonstrated systems analyst work experience, requirements engineering and operations management.
- 2+ years previous compliance and/or audit support experience.
- Experience in the use of change and configuration management tools/systems.
- Experience with process development and roll-out
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
AG / BH13450
Job ID: 13450