Business Analyst Senior - Migration SAS Viya
About the job
- A five-year higher-education qualification (BAC+5).
- At least 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, including some experience on data or decision-support topics.
- Knowledge of SAS Viya.
- Experience facilitating workshops and supporting users through change management.
- Proficiency in business acceptance testing for indicators or reporting scopes.
- Comfort working in an agile environment, including squads, backlogs, and user stories.
- Ability to write clear functional documentation.
- French-language proficiency is required by the French-language job description.
- Participate in inventorying and prioritizing the existing SAS assets to migrate, including programs, processes, and reports, to SAS Viya.
- Frame functional evolutions, contribute to the product roadmap, and manage the backlog with the squad, including user stories and prioritization.
- Perform business acceptance testing to verify that results and indicators remain accurate and consistent between the old and new environments.
- Support users through change management by conducting workshops, preparing presentation materials and user guides, and gathering feedback.
- Coordinate between data users, the product team, and technical teams.
- Write and maintain functional product documentation.
- Provide level-two functional support after solutions are deployed.
- Previous participation in a SAS 9 to SAS Viya migration, including content inventory, code refactoring, and knowledge of CAS.
About the company
NEXTON plans and builds digital projects for large French companies and online businesses, combining digital strategy with software development and marketing. Its teams cover product management, user-experience design, agile delivery and data work, and build websites, mobile applications and customer communications. Clients pay for specialist consultants assigned to their teams or for projects delivered by NEXTON's own agency. The agency combines designers, developers and marketing specialists to handle projects from planning and interface design through development and delivery. Founded in Paris in 2011, NEXTON is headquartered there at 5-7 rue Saint-Fiacre and operates across France.
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2011
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- NEXTON recruits entirely on permanent employment contracts, providing a salaried path into client assignments.
- NEXTON consultants joined client Veolia at Google's enterprise-AI event in March 2026, studying tools alongside customer teams.
- NEXTON's client portfolio spans rail, telecom and insurance through SNCF, Orange and AXA.
What critics are saying
- NEXTON's Montpellier Java role pairs new banking features with incident analysis and corrective maintenance, per October 2026 posting.
- French demand exposure: Numeum reported 1.8% contraction for 2025 IT services in December 2025; NEXTON's six offices are French.
- NEXTON's Paris customer marketing lead handles mobile campaigns and supervises an apprentice, per its October 2026 posting.
What makes NEXTON unique
- NEXTON runs an in-house digital factory in rural Saint-Augustin, extending project delivery beyond metropolitan offices.
- Figma lists NEXTON as a service partner for design-system implementation, migration and team training.
- NEXTON's seven employee-run communities connect mentoring, software, design, AI/data, sustainability, agile product work and sport.
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Benefits
- Commuter Benefits
- Professional Development Budget