Systems Analyst

Job Description

Primary responsibilities:

• Translate business rules and business requirements into system level requirements (SRS/use cases etc.), documenting and communicating system changes.
• Generate requirement documents that communicate process workflows and functional needs to both business stakeholders and technical staff.
• Gain a sound understanding of existing system functionality to be successful in gathering new requirements for enhancements.
• Maintain and enhance existing documentation.
• Coordinate and help develop and maintain back‑end system documentation.
• Work with user groups and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to develop project/system requirements.
• Work with Project Managers to coordinate and monitor activities during system requirements analysis.
• Identify and document all system impacts of various proposed system changes.

Required:

• 3‑5 years of systems analysis experience.
• 3 or more years of development/technical experience in both Java and Oracle (PL/SQL). Ability to write queries and joins.
• 3 or more years of experience creating both functional and technical specifications and requirements.
• Highly organized and detail‑oriented with the ability to multi‑task and manage multiple priorities and see projects to completion.
• Ability to understand underlying complex business rules of an existing system.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Effectively communicate with both technical and non‑technical users at all levels of an organization.
• Experience with discovering and writing functional and non‑functional requirement specifications.
• Self‑motivated and able to work without close supervision.
• MS Office Suite, strong emphasis on MS Visio (wireframes and workflows), and ability to self‑learn new applications and tools. Experience working in an Agile environment is a plus.

What software tools/skills are needed to perform these daily responsibilities? Tools required: software products that are used to develop analysis and design specifications and completed system application. Integrated development environments (IDEs), Database development environments (Oracle Developer, TOAD, My SQL), modeling tools, documentation support tools (Req Pro, Clear Quest (IBM‑s Jira) for tracking requirement traceability and verification.

What skills/attributes are nice to have?

• Required expertise: communications networks, connectivity, database, programming languages, operating systems, and business process, system usage.
• Cost/Benefit Analysis, interviewing techniques, requirement gathering and modeling techniques, architectural design techniques, network configuration and database design techniques, requirement traceability technics.

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