Position: System Analyst
Duration: 7 months
Remote Work
Top 3 Skills:
- Gathering Requirements
- Collaboration
- Data Analysis
- Candidates with procurement experience will be given preference.
- Ability to write RFPRFIRFQ
The State of Maine Application Development Group in support of the Department of Education is currently looking for a Systems Analyst to help round out the team. This position will be expected to collaborate with business and technical team to anticipate and communicate product needs and requirements.
Requirements:
- Perform analysis and documentation of business and system interactions.
- Work with the Application Development team to design and implement technical solutions.
- Perform business analyses of functional requirements to identify information procedures and decision flows.
- Facilitate processes for the team and vendors to ensure they are meeting MaineIT policy and procedures.
- Support procurement processes including gathering business and technical requirements for use in RFPs and assisting in Deployment Certification processes.
- Evaluate existing procedures and methods identify and document items such as database content structure application subsystems and develop data dictionary.
- Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems to external systems and between new and existing systems.
- Identify candidate business processes for redesign prototype potential solutions provide tradeoff information and suggest a recommended course of action. Identify the modifications to the automated processes.
- Be involved in all phases of the SDLC including Requirements Definition and Documentation Systems Analysis and Design System Integration Testing and Deployment Coordination.
- Support and use the selected departmental methodologies.
Qualifications:
- 5 years related industry experience.
- Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent working experience in business analytics/communications.
- Demonstrated experience in gathering business requirements for system design including advanced methodologies like story mapping impact mapping user story writing and refinement
- Experience writing queries and analyzing data (SQL experience is a plus)
- Experience in writing and executing test plans with attention to detail and quality focus
- Experience with developing procurement artifacts e.g. RFP/RFQ/RFI
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a high paced team environment
- Experience in Agile development methodology and practices
- Knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle as well as the project development cycle
- Strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to write clearly and effectively