Sr IT Business Solutions

Overview

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, GATX Corporation (NYSE: GATX) is an industry leader with 125+ years of success—success that is powered by our people. We are proud of our high-performance culture, hard-working and enthusiastic management team, and beautiful office space in the Willis Tower.

 

At GATX, we hire the best and offer our employees a dynamic, energetic, collaborative environment to enable them to make an impact from day one. Enjoy the perks and benefits of a global company with the close-knit culture and community of a much smaller one. In the same way we strive to empower our customers to propel the world forward, we are dedicated to providing our people with the tools and resources they need to advance in their careers.

 

The Senior IT Business Solutions Analyst, within the Information Technology group works directly with the IT Director - Commercial in providing IT activity guidance for the Commercial business functions specifically, and other business areas in general. In addition, the Senior IT Business Solutions Analyst – Commercial plays a leadership role in delivery phases of strategic and transformational application initiatives.  The incumbent is also responsible for completing service requests that pertain to the Commercial and other business areas while ensuring cross functional integration and impacts are considered. 

 

The position partners with peers within the IT group and across business functions to ensure successful completion of technology related initiatives and activities.

 

Qualified candidates who are currently Wells Fargo Rail employees will be given priority consideration over other external applicants.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison with Commercial and related business functions, leading implementation of new and streamlined tools, applications, and processes to support their operations.  Consider differing approaches, viewpoints, and expectations while working toward attaining goals and objectives on schedule through successful teamwork.
• Lead and manage the business analysis function on strategic projects from initiation through delivery
• Understand business processes and how underlying applications and data support or enable related processes
• Assess, analyze, and refine requirements as part of defined projects and initiatives
• Facilitate cross-functional requirements gathering workshops during initial phase of project
• Identify as-is and to-be processes
• Identify pain points and business value associated with addressing them
• Support project planning efforts
• Craft and recommend solutions with a focus on providing business value
• Adhere to and advocate for the use of the GATX Agile methodology on application development projects
• Work with cross-functional project team members to develop Agile story narratives to capture functional and technical application requirements
• Assist with the design, test and implementation of solutions spanning multiple technologies including Java/JavaScript, Salesforce, SAP, PeopleSoft, TIBCO/MuleSoft, Power BI, Mainframe
• Support and enhance solutions, continually looking for opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work closely with product owners, developers, QA and UX teams to ensure solution quality and usability
• Support testing efforts, including test planning, UAT coordination, and defect triage
• Develop deep understanding of business needs and processes associated with assigned application development projects.  Become highly regarded as functional subject matter expert
• Provide routine application support for business functions.  Support activities include but are not limited to:
• Responding to application inquiries and/or issues from the user groups
• Crafting solutions to address root causes of inquiries/issues
• Performing ad-hoc queries and responding to requests for data
• Process Improvement
• Contribute to the evolution and improvement of business analysis processes, standards, templates, and tools
• Find new and innovative ways to perform day-to-day activities from a system and technology perspective
• Adopt and learn new technologies, tools and platforms to improve business analysis effectiveness
• Develop and maintain proper system documentation (e.g. User guides, training materials, process flows, policies/procedures, job aids, SOX404 supporting material, etc.).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required. Master’s degree is a plus
• 10+ years of business application analysis and design experience with a proven track record of delivering business value through software solutions in a highly collaborative environment
• Agile application development project experience required (5+ years)
• Agile project management experience is a plus
• Strong knowledge of leasing and asset service industries desired (5+ years)
• Excellent communication skills required
• Experience with mission-critical, web-based application development projects is required
• Must possess sound technical and analytical skills that enable the person to interact very effectively with both software developers and business users
• Strong data analysis skills.  Ability to understand, develop, and assess data designs.  Ability to query data and identity application improvements that will improve and ensure data quality
• Strong general software development process skills:
• Proficient designing and guiding software solutions that span multiple technologies including Java/JavaScript, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, TIBCO/MuleSoft, SAP and Mainframe
• Proficient in the use of sound Agile software development practices
• Outstanding attention to detail and testing of solutions
• Strong functional application design skills
• Experience with AI solutions is a plus
• Must demonstrate strong customer focus, communication skills, a sense of urgency, and a win-win approach to meeting business requirements and resolving problems.

Posting Duration

This posting will remain open for 5 days.

 

As of the post date, the salary range for this position is:

Min

USD $90,400.00/Yr.

Max

USD $136,200.00/Yr.

 

This role may be eligible to participate in the Company’s short-term incentive plan, the details of which will be provided to the applicant upon hire.

 

This range is a reasonable estimate and takes into account several factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to, geographic location, skill set, experience, education, training, internal equity, and other business needs.