Updated: Feb 26, 2025 - The Design Analyst is tasked with strategizing and implementing business analysis methods tailored for design assurance, including the creation and maintenance of processes, standards, and documentation templates. This position encompasses managing stakeholder interactions, documenting design proposals with comprehensive impact analyses, and aligning with the Business Design Steering group to ensure timely completion of agenda and action items. This role also involves producing functional designs, estimating design efforts, mentoring junior team members, and conducting necessary testing to validate solutions.


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1. Design Analyst, IntraTech Solutions, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Part of a SAFe Agile work environment on a cross-functional team composed of design, software, and system test engineers.
- Plans, designs, develops and verifies highly advanced F/A-18 and EA-18G avionics sub-systems and weapon system upgrades.
- Effectively works on a diverse team that partners Boeing with industry partners and the US Navy.
- Assists in developing and validating requirements for various communication, sensors, electronic warfare and other electromagnetic systems and components.
- Assists in the development and validation of electromagnetic requirements for electrical\electronic systems, mechanical systems, interconnects and structures.
- Performs trade studies, modeling, simulation and other forms of analysis to predict component and interconnect performance and to optimize design around established requirements.
- Provides support to products throughout their lifecycle from manufacturing to customer use by recommending engineering solutions to issues.
- Considers customers (internal and external) and their needs when performing and/or working with others on routine tasks
- Supports others and occasionally becomes directly involved in developing and sustaining customer relationships
- Assists more experienced employees in seeking information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Methodologies (Hard Skills)
- Systems Engineering (Hard Skills)
- Electromagnetic Systems Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Modeling and Simulation (Hard Skills)
- Lifecycle Support (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Customer-Focused Approach (Soft Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
2. Design Analyst, CoreStream Consulting, San Mateo, CA
Job Summary:
- Work with the various Cargill Enterprises and Data Platforms to collect the correct data.
- Own the data management and utilization of information in appropriate areas, which includes data gathering, extracting, cleansing, structuring, and providing analytics and insights.
- Contribute to the design and development of the network optimization model, by translating the reality of processes into modeling structures and policies to support network modeling (Tactical/Strategical).
- Create productivity methods for data consolidation and documentation using standardized templates, data tools and structures to guarantee the accurate and high standard quality of database control for network documentation.
- Conduct meetings with all SMEs levels with a focus on database template structure, content validation, and continuous improvement matters with database quality and accuracy.
- Support the project manager for the creation of presentations and project documentation & assumptions.
- Help create reports out of SCDO recommendations to the business in collaboration with the SCDO Lead.
- Actively participate and contribute to the improvement plans related to Global SCDO Standards - processes, modeling functionalities and technologies.
- Promote process continuous improvement and replicate best practices across the SCDO community such as local, regional, and global.
- Prepares information that more experienced employees will share with customers to build an understanding of issues
Skills on Resume:
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Network Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Data Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Project Support (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
3. Design Analyst, BlueSky Innovations, Charleston, SC
Job Summary:
- Enterprise Management Project Tool into Transaction Services, to include Installation Coordinators, Transaction Resource Specialist, Project Managers, plus others
- Responsible for specific unit testing and unit test data creation efforts and coordination/support with the testing teams.
- Responsible for capturing and documenting user requirements.
- Creation of tickets to report system bugs and track to successful resolution.
- Work closely with other members of the NCR Team to implement a multi-functional business solution.
- Responsible for triage of help desk tickets – providing process guidance or reporting system issues to our IT organization.
- Examines engineering drawings of machined, sheet metal, fabricated parts and assemblies to detect errors in design documents.
- Determine practicality of design, material selection, and fabrication process
- Interact with design engineers and provide resolutions to eliminate drawing errors
- Familiar with any CAD tool with exposure to PDM/PLM
Skills on Resume:
- Project Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Unit Testing (Hard Skills)
- User Requirements Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Issue Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Business Solution Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Help Desk Ticket Management (Soft Skills)
- Engineering Drawing Analysis (Hard Skills)
- CAD and PDM/PLM Familiarity (Hard Skills)
4. Design Analyst, GreenPath Systems, Cedar Rapids, IA
Job Summary:
- Identify and plan suitable business analysis approaches for design assurance.
- Management of key stakeholder engagement.
- Collect and document design initiatives and proposals including the appropriate impact analysis for the associated change and options being considered.
- Engagement with the Business Design Steering group members to confirm agenda items and completion of action items
- Design and deliver artefacts that support the design assurance approach including processes, standards, templates and guidance.
- Document and design business processes using process modelling techniques.
- Develop and maintain design templates, principles and design decision logs.
- Producing functional designs ready for development
- Estimating design effort to support wider planning activities
- Mentoring junior members of the team
- Performing testing as required to confirm system behaviour when validating solutions
Skills on Resume:
- Business Analysis Methodologies (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Skills (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Artefact Development (Hard Skills)
- Process Modelling (Hard Skills)
- Mentoring Skills (Soft Skills)
- Testing Proficiency (Hard Skills)
5. Design Analyst, VantagePoint Strategies, Richmond, VA
Job Summary:
- Work with the Product team to clearly define use cases, user scenarios and workflows.
- Create and deliver detailed functional and technical specifications outlined as user stories, flow diagrams and mock-ups.
- Closely collaborate with R&D SCRUM teams throughout the development process to ensure that requirements are understood and developed as intended.
- Document and internally communicate new features.
- Design and manage integrations with various drug catalogs
- Lead clinical domain of drugs and medications
- Maintains and enters information into various quality databases for tracking errors
- Collates error data performs analysis & provides feedback to the team about various error types & how to avoid them
- Capabilities, consider how day-to-day actions or plans affect customers, respond quickly to help others address customer needs and resolve problems.
Skills on Resume:
- Use Case Definition (Hard Skills)
- Specification Creation (Hard Skills)
- SCRUM Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Feature Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Integration Design (Hard Skills)
- Clinical Domain Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Quality Database Management (Hard Skills)
- Customer-Centric Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
6. Organization Design Analyst, Visionary Designs, Aurora, CO
Job Summary:
- Collaborates with other Org Design COE team members to prepare content and deliverables for internal Organization Design consulting projects
- Project manage organization design projects, in partnership with internal Org Design COE team members, HR Business Partners and business leaders
- Provide hands-on support during all phases of the Organization Design project process (e.g., assessment, analysis, developing insights and recommendations, program planning, design criteria and design concept development, alignment and integration, etc.)
- Support the design, development and delivery of materials, tools and templates for the global Organization Design methodology
- Develop materials to support the agenda for the Organization Design Community of Practice meetings
- Attend learnings, events, and webinars on Organization Effectiveness topics to remain up to date on trends in the space
- Leverage data to conduct current state analysis/assessments to inform Organization Design decisions on internal consulting projects
- Provide input on iterations of Organization Design tools to better inform data-driven decision-making
- Work with professionals who have created some of the most revolutionary solutions in their fields.
- Make an impact. Work in large-scale projects globally.
- Support the design and the development of the company’s organizational structure.
- Manage job evaluation systems and create organizational charts
- Use the Mercer grading system and analyse and weight positions.
Skills on Resume:
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Project Support (Hard Skills)
- Material Development (Hard Skills)
- Trend Awareness (Soft Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Tool Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Organizational Structure Design (Hard Skills)
7. Senior Design Analyst, Nexus Design Group, Fort Wayne, IN
Job Summary:
- Responsible for the identification of design challenges aligned to value streams, best practices and initiatives and contributed to the development and deployment of these for Commercial
- Manage assigned initiatives by utilizing project management techniques (ideally agile) to ensure the delivery outcomes
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of value streams, business processes and business change management
- Apply industry knowledge, organization knowledge and industry best practices when working with internal and external stakeholders and customers
- Coordinate the delivery of new and existing value stream mapping to ensure deliverables meet the strategic priorities
- Provide guidance and support on operational processes to support the delivery of business priorities
- Interface with management ensuring that service and process objectives are delivered efficiently
- Support colleagues to implement, use and compile to data to promote evidence-based decision-making
- Provide advice on data management best practices and governance
- Fully cascade the outcome of projects, so that the actionable insights
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job
- Design and align the company structure to their success.
Skills on Resume:
- Design Challenge Identification (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Industry Knowledge Application (Hard Skills)
- Value Stream Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Operational Process Guidance (Hard Skills)
- Data-Driven Decision Support (Soft Skills)
- Organizational Structure Design (Hard Skills)
8. Senior Design Analyst, BrightLine Technologies, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Work across all these areas, coordinating with other senior analysts to identify priorities and drive change.
- Provide a high level of statistical and economic expertise, technical leadership and advice across the unit and the wider organization.
- Also lead and contribute to future-focused discussions, increasing the value we can provide to our customers.
- Researching, designing, and implementing a range of innovative statistical, data and analytical solutions to support and inform all stages of the data and statistics lifecycle.
- Establish strong connections with peers across the official statistics system and with the international statistical and economic community.
- Play a key role in the development of other analysts as a coach and mentor.
- Research complicated Tier 3 escalations upon request.
- Stay abreast of new benefits legislation and trends and implement and report as needed.
- Assist in due diligence activities for potential acquisitions and support benefit integration activities of acquisitions.
- Assist with administration of retirement plans such as 401(k) plans.
Skills on Resume:
- Statistical Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Technical Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Research Skills (Hard Skills)
- Networking (Soft Skills)
- Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
9. Senior Benefits Design Analyst, Dynamic Edge Solutions, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Act as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders for a variety of health, welfare, and retirement plans.
- Partner with vendors and brokers suppliers to monitor, track, and understand benefits-related regulations and make recommendations to ensure benefits programs remain compliant, cost-effective, and competitive and provide expected customer service and employee experience.
- Participate in benefit plan performance reviews with vendors to identify and understand trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Assist in vendor and/or service Request of Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) process; evaluate responses and participate in final selection.
- Review vendor contracts, amendments, and plan documents.
- Collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams to introduce new designs, define requirements and support vendor implementation.
- Assist in the draft and review of participant communication.
- Assist in annual benefit plan review/renewal process and open enrollment preparation.
- Support benefit program governance and operational compliance goals.
- Contribute to the participation in designated benchmark surveys.
Skills on Resume:
- Subject Matter Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Vendor Management (Soft Skills)
- Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Proposal Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Contract Review (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Participant Communication (Soft Skills)
- Compliance Knowledge (Hard Skills)
10. Product Design Analyst, Synergy Development, Tucson, AZ
Job Summary:
- Facilitates meetings to generate requirements from key stakeholders, subject matter experts, system owners, system developers, and system testers.
- Leads design sessions in the modeling of new products or enhancements to existing products.
- Analyzes new and existing systems to develop strategies to leverage the applicable systems effectively and efficiently.
- Establishes the scope and parameters of system analysis to define outcomes and measurements.
- Documents clear, concise, consistent, and comprehensive requirements, including prototypes when applicable, that encompass user requirements as well as functional requirements.
- Creates workflow diagrams, process models, mind maps, and specifications to direct system modifications associated with enhancements or updates.
- Conducts requirement reviews with key stakeholders, subject matter experts, system owners, system developers, and system testers.
- Assists with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and facilitates communication with key stakeholders, subject matter experts, and system owners.
- Builds and maintains product offerings, ratings, and forms including business rues in the policy administration system.
- Collaborates in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing applications.
Skills on Resume:
- Requirement Gathering (Soft Skills)
- Design Leadership (Soft Skills)
- System Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Scope Definition (Hard Skills)
- Documentation Skills (Hard Skills)
- Process Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
- Application Development (Hard Skills)
11. Product Design Analyst, RedRiver Consulting, Shreveport, LA
Job Summary:
- Works with other departments to resolve issues and implement new systems or procedures.
- Develops and maintains system procedural and reference manuals for use by all system users.
- Provides input to the business in the development of system training material.
- Communicate system changes, enhancements, and modifications - verbally or through written documentation - to management, peers, staff, and other employees so that issues and solutions are understood.
- Aids with technical projects, updates, enhancements, and testing for the various systems.
- Evaluate, plan, design, and deploy testing techniques for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
- Coordinates and performs in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new processes, and other post-implementation support.
- Provides guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.
- Actively participates in professional development, i.e. continuing education or self-improvement.
Skills on Resume:
- Cross-Department Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Manual Development (Hard Skills)
- Training Material Development (Hard Skills)
- Change Communication (Soft Skills)
- Project Support (Soft Skills)
- Testing Techniques (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Staff Mentoring (Soft Skills)