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About The Position Columbia Sportswear’s dynamic global supply chain consists of 4 distribution centers, 430 retail stores, 80 apparel factories and 20 footwear factories worldwide. We pride ourselves on being able to get products to market quickly, safely, and in the most cost-effective manner. By leveraging data analytics, we are constantly pushing to make smarter business decisions and identifying innovative ways to make Columbia Sportswear’s supply chain more efficient and effective to meet our consumers’ ever-changing needs. The Sr. Business Analyst is responsible for constructing workflows that articulate future system capabilities. The role leads data-mapping sessions and acts as a technical liaison between developers, engineers, product owners, and data analysts. How You'll Make a Difference • Discovers, documents, and provides technical feasibility assessments to stakeholders based on digital platforms and capabilities. • Leads stakeholders and development teams to understand, document, and design complex, system-level work components that meet current and future project goals based upon defined requirements. • Provides results from development team prototyping and proof-of-concept solutions to business product owners and data analysts for complex work. • Collaborates with team members to establish, adapt, and execute project goals effectively and efficiently with business stakeholders. • Researches third-party REST APIs and documents integration specifications accurately. • Investigates, accurately diagnoses, and provides effective solutions for complex system errors through accurate use of monitoring tools. • Performs other duties as assigned. YOU HAVE • Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience. • 5+ years of software, business, or systems analyst experience. • 5+ years of experience writing technical documentation that includes UML, DFD and System Flow diagrams. • 5+ years of experience working in an agile development environment with scalable distributed cloud-based applications. • Strong capabilities with Azure or other cloud platforms. YOU ARE • Independent, proactive, and able to drive work forward efficiently. • Highly attentive to detail and quality of deliverables. • Experienced with documenting both server-side and client-side development requirements. • Able to conduct and accurately communicate technical discussions directly with project management and project stakeholders. • Excellent with verbal and written communication skills. • Highly organized, analytical, and have strong planning skills. #Hybrid This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter. At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available. If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.

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