IT Data Systems Analyst with CBAP or SAfe Certification

Overview

Full Time

Skills

Certified Business Analysis Professional
Functional Requirements
Information Technology
Data Flow
Modeling
Workflow Analysis
Business Process
System Documentation
Traceability Matrix
Business Rules
User Stories
Workflow
Use Cases
Strategic Alliance
Usability
Systems Design
Technical Drafting
Internet
Intranet
Test Plans
Acceptance Testing
Writing
Data Structure
Data Manipulation
Database
Testing
User Guides
Mainframe
Laptop
Business Analytics
Client/server
Geographic Information System
ArcGIS
SQL
Geospatial Analysis
Data Analysis
User Experience
Interfaces
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Azure
DevOps
Lifecycle Management
Communication
Collaboration
Business Analysis
SAFE
Analytical Skill
Decision-making
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Facilitation
Presentations
Requirements Elicitation
Agile
Waterfall
IBM RUP
Software Development
Application Development
Microsoft Office

Job Details

Job Title: IT Data Systems Analyst with CBAP or SAfe Certification

Duration: 48 months

Location: New York, NY

Key responsibilities:
  • Identify functional and non-functional requirements for information technology projects and programs using industry standard analysis techniques such as data flow modeling, workflow analysis, and functional decomposition analysis.
  • Prepare, review and update requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations for proposed solutions using standard templates.
  • Solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
  • Participate in meetings with both technology and business teams to facilitate the understanding, clarification, and implementation of requirements.
  • Create/revise/own analysis artifacts and deliverables such as requirements traceability matrix, user permission matrix, process maps, business requirements, business rules, user stories, user workflows, use cases, and acceptance test cases.
  • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into detail, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish client requests from the underlying true needs.
  • Create and maintain strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery.
  • Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
  • Prepare written business correspondence that is coherent, effective, professional, and engaging.
  • Possess understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.
  • Understand technical design specifications.
  • Understand Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.
  • Understand how legacy and web-based systems interface with each other.
  • Define and set standards/templates for acceptance test cases, acceptance testing and test matrices.
  • Define acceptance test conditions and develop accurate/complete test plans.
  • Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
  • Conduct acceptance testing efforts according to plan.
  • Work independently with clients to define concepts and under direction of the Business Relationship Manager and project managers.
  • Understand the necessity of project standards and apply them consistently.
  • Proactively initiate, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with team members.

Required Qualification:
  • Minimum of 8 years' experience with writing application software, data analysis, data access, data structures, data manipulation, databases, programming, testing and implementation, technical and user documentation, software conversions; environments include but are not limited to mainframe, mid-range, personal computers, laptop; available to assist and/or lead in the design of program specifications and the implementation of software solutions.

Preferred Qualification:
  • BA/BS Degree or equivalent, in a technology related field or other degree preferred.
  • 8+ years of experience in specifying, analyzing, and documenting requirements for mission critical business applications in a web/client-server environment.
  • Subject matter expertise of geographic information systems, and experience with ArcGIS.
  • Ability to write and execute SQL queries, preference is to also know how to query geospatial data sets.
  • Competent at performing data analysis on large sets of data.
  • Advanced Microsoft Visio skills
  • Basic knowledge of UX principles and ability to prototype user interfaces using rudimentary tools (Figma, JustInMind, MS Paint, MS Visio).
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps as a lifecycle management tool.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Able to collaborate with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional and/or SAFe certification(s)
  • Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application requirements.
  • Strong facilitation skills and proven experience at driving consensus across multiple stakeholders.
  • Effective presentation skills.
  • Process-driven analysis skills and a background in various requirements elicitation methods.
  • Adept to Agile, Waterfall and RUP software development life cycle processes.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects as a contributor.
  • Ability to accurately estimate level or effort needed to make delivery commitments.
  • Utilize application development environments, tools, and methodologies across multiple platforms.
  • Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications.
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