Senior Functional Analyst

JOB posting

JOB TITLE: Senior Functional Analyst 

DEPARTMENT: Information Technology

REPORTS TO: Vice President, IT, Data, and Financial Services

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Senior Functional Analysts is responsible for helping drive the growth, adoption, and business impact of the Company’s enterprise data and analytics platform. This role is the bridge between stakeholders and the Data and Analytics team for active project delivery. The Senior Functional Analyst owns upstream project work and leads intake and discovery, translating business needs into clear and actionable requirements, producing wireframes and user experience direction, product testing, and end user acceptance testing to ensure what gets delivered matches what was needed.

The Senior Functional Analyst closely partners with the Vice President of IT, Data, and Financial Services, Project Manager, engineering team, and business stakeholders to drive iterative, agile delivery of Foundry-based solutions that enable data-informed decision making across the organization. This individual is accountable for translating business problems, operational workflows, and decision-making needs into clear requirements that can be evaluated, prioritized, tested, and adopted. The Senior Functional Analyst ensures the team is solving the right problem before engineering begins and that delivered solutions align to business process, data logic, user experience, and measurable business outcomes.

Success in this role can be defined as an individual who is a strong facilitator, who asks insightful questions, isn’t afraid to push back on ambiguity, and can translate between business language and technical execution. The Senior Functional Analyst is comfortable learning new platforms, thrives in environments that require independent ownership, and bring structure to unstructured problems.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Intake, Discovery, and Requirements

o Lead initial intake conversations with business stakeholders to understand the problem, current state, pain points, and desired outcomes

o Ask clarifying questions that challenge vague requests, dig into edge cases, and uncover the underlying business need - identify dependencies, data gaps, and risks early in the requirements process

o Own the translation of business needs into structured, actionable requirements documents appropriate to project size (e.g., lightweight for small efforts, more detailed for complex initiatives)

2. User Stories, Scoping, and Sprint Support

o Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria that the engineering team can build against

o Translate requirements into testable acceptance criteria, including business rules, data validation expectations, edge cases, and exception handling

3. Stakeholder Management, Demos, and Communication

o Lead demo sessions with business users to gather feedback and drive iterative improvement

o Build and maintain relationships with business group leaders so they have a trusted point of contact on the data team

o Own and manage Product Testing and End User Acceptance Testing

4. UI/UX Direction and Wireframing

o Produce lightweight wireframes or mockups to align with stakeholders before engineering begins UI work

o Define user flows and screen-level requirements for application interfaces

o Review UI builds against requirements and provide feedback to engineering

5. Proactive Backlog Intake and Roadmap Support

o Support the manager in roadmap planning by providing business context, stakeholder priorities, and scoping estimates

6. Documentation and Continuous Improvement

o Maintain clear and current requirements documentation for all active projects

7. All other duties as assigned

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

1. Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, analytics, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) is required

2. Four to seven (4-7) years of experience in a Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Functional Analyst, Product Analyst, or similar role, including ownership of complex cross-functional requirements from discovery through delivery is required

3. Must have strong facilitation skills – ability to lead meetings, ask tough questions, and synthesize unstructured input into clear documentation

4. Must have experience working in Agile delivery environments with iterative development cycles

5. Must have advanced experience with Microsoft Office products

6. Detail oriented with excellent time management and follow up skills

7. Must have strong communication skills with experience engaging both technical peers and business stakeholders

8. Experience working with enterprise data platforms, SaaS products, or analytics tools preferred

9. Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar ontology-based platforms preferred

10. Experience producing wireframes or workups using tools such as Figma preferred

11. Background in hospitality, real estate, or marina operations is preferred

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

1. Must be able to independently lift, carry, push, and pull up to fifteen (15) pounds

2. This individual is located in an office environment generally seated at a desk with a chair for multiple hours

3. May be required to walk on various terrains when visiting marina site locations and spend the majority of the workday on one’s feet

4. Must be able to swim or willing to wear a personal floatation device when visiting marina site locations

5. Must be able to travel on occasion

               6. Must be able to operate general computer equipment including laptop, keyboard, desk or cell phone, and mouse     

               7. This team member is regularly required to sit and talk or hear by giving or receiving in depth instructions

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE  

This document provides descriptive information about the above Suntex Marinas position. Work actually performed by incumbents in this position may vary. Although this document may be used for recruiting, staffing, or career planning, the information contained herein should only be used as a guideline or recommendation for the content of and qualifications for this position. An individual’s ability to meet the qualifications and capabilities described in this document is not a guarantee of employment or promotion. Suntex Marinas reserves the right to make changes to this document as deemed necessary without providing advance written notice.   

Suntex Marinas provides equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. Suntex Marinas is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified applicants, and team members with disabilities to ensure they enjoy equal access to all employment opportunities and benefits of employment as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.