IT Systems Analyst

Capture and model/map business requirements, and work with business partners to understand directions and priorities to assure the delivery of information technology solutions.

Core Duties:

• Understand business processes and translate into system solutions.
• Assist with feasibility studies of enhancement requests, identifying options and recommending an IT solution.
• Assist the project manager in developing project scope, cost, resources, impact and schedule.
• Create business requirements, including business rules, quality attributes, performance goals, external interfaces and constraints.
• Collaborate with the business partners and test team to create and execute system test plans, user-acceptance testing and rollout.
• Assist the development team to develop technical specifications.
• Perform production support activities, including triaging issues, evaluating patches and fixes, assessing impact, and implementing solution.
• Conduct in-depth analysis to solve problems, identifying gaps and issues that minimize system modification and maintenance; make recommendations, including discovering new approaches or applications.
• Design and document modules and components and how they will interface with each other.
• Develop functional specifications to ensure compliance with system development lifecycle methods.

Minimum Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience with both process and data modeling.
• Demonstrated experience with fit/gap analysis.
• Understanding of relational database concepts.
• Strong understanding of the components of web applications.
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with minimum direction.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to establish effective, ongoing relationships with clients, staff and management.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and work under pressure in high stress situations.
• Demonstrated ability to program or script.

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