Job Title: Senior IT Business Analyst

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: 2 Years Contract

Duties: Min 12 + yrs of experience is required for this position.

Job Description:

1. Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for a business

2. Budgeting and forecasting

3. Planning and monitoring

4. Variance analysis

5. Pricing

6. Reporting

7. Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders

Build productive relationships with a global IT team, including BSAs, developers & DBAs

Support the evaluation, design and architecture of the Sales and Legal Technology Stack

Understand the full Sales cycle, and design solutions that interface with SFDC, Siebel, Apttus, and Partner applications (e.g. Salesforce Communities)

Drive a cross-functional and integrated approach to Sales and Legal solutions within Equinix

Translate business requirements into system solutions

Analyze and determine application and interface solutions

Design and develop complex reports as needed

Drive and execute functional design, testing, change management and end user acceptance for projects and enhancements as needed

Interface with relevant teams to support day-to-day systems and interfaces issues related to existing application solutions

Suggest best practices and opportunities for improvement through automation or simplification

Perform hands-on Salesforce system setup and configuration

Analyze requirements to determine appropriate solution designs considering capabilities, limitations, and design trade-offs

Document implementation considerations (Triggers, Visualforce pages, components, validation rules, and workflow rules)

Work with consultants and/or offshore resources in support of Salesforce development work

May perform other duties as assigned

Skills: Skillset:

1. Oral and written communication skills

2. Interpersonal and consultative skills

3. Facilitation skills

4. Analytical thinking and problem solving

5. Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy

6. Organizational skills

7. Knowledge of business structure

8. Requirements engineering

9. Costs benefit analysis

10. Processes modeling

11. Understanding of networks, databases and other technology

Strong analytical skills in analyzing complex problems, processes, and systems to propose solutions

Deep understanding of CLM process

Good understanding of related business processes like contract management, quoting, and the order/fulfilment cycle in order to support impact analysis and design for proposed solutions

Design and implementation experience with SalesForce.com and Apttus

Experience with utilizing visualforce, process builder, workflow rules, Apex, SOQL, SAQL, JSON within Salesforce platform.

Exposure to Salesforce platform integrations (inbound/outbound) using the REST/SOAP APIs, Web Services, Data Loader

Ability to document interfaces and data flows

Excellent written/verbal communication skills

Ability to effectively manage confidentiality of information

Ability to quickly learn new systems, processes, and technology

Ability to document Functional specification and test cases

Systems/Technologies:

 - Legal systems (Sharepoint, Apttus, SFDC, Document Management systems)

 - Tibco Integrations

Functional Knowledge:

 Domain experience in Quote - cash/ Contracting/Colloboration/Regulation compliance/Legal Workflows