IT Data Systems Analyst with CBAP or SAfe Certification

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.