RQ08677 - Systems Analyst - Senior

Description

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical expertise project leadership and coordination of activities in the development implementation and maintenance of a diverse range of cost effective I&IT solutions.
  
• Provide technical advice to clients and leverage OPS I&IT solutions and applications to meet program/service goals and objectives ensuring efficiency.
  

General Skills:

• Provides specialized technical expertise in the overall analysis of the design and architecture of systems solutions.
  
• Ability to evaluate recommendations and ensures all recommended solutions for improvement are congruent with the project goals and objectives Identifies short and longterm project goals/objectives and as a senior technical expert defines and identifies program and service delivery requirements in support of the development and/or acquisition of client applications Leads the analysis development and documentation of design and architecture of systems solutions. Leads the development of testing integration and implementation of systems solutions into the clients applications
  
• Guides the feasibility studies and costeffective analyses of proposed client I&IT initiatives ensures all studies and analyses are documented
  
• Leads the technical aspects of projects related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This includes planning scheduling and estimating resources providing technical expertise coordination monitoring progress and providing management with project status updates
  
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements translating business documents into technical specifications Experience leading development/support teams supporting multidimensional and relational databases and their applications for effective planning budgeting strategizing and forecasting procedures
  
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex applications utilizing relational and multidimensional databases Ability to provide implementation and post implementation support as required
  
• Oversees the research and evaluation of the technical components in the acquisition of software hardware technology systems and products
  
• Recommends and directs the measurement and improvement of tools techniques standards and performance criteria to control the quality of application development initiatives
  
• Provides coaching and direction to junior analysts throughout the project related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
  
• Desirable Skills Knowledge and experience in rapid application development (RAD) methodologies
  
• Knowledge and experience with middleware and gateways Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices Experience with development/maintenance of documentation as per Methodology
  
• Good working knowledge of Dimensions and Facts Knowledge of multidimensional structures (cubes) Ability to gather review and provide feedback to business requirements
  

Requirements

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Communication & customer relationship mgmt. skills in a technical context:

Demonstrated experience in customer relationship management in a technical context; excellent verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills; analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills.

Good understanding of systems environments business analysis and change management.

Ability to document technical artefacts clearly and perform knowledge transfer effectively to fulltime technical staff.

Proven ability to prioritize and parallelize assigned tasks to achieve milestones within tight deadlines.

Experience working with/within OPS

Technical experience/skills with webbased transactional systems and required API technologies & tools:

Extensive experience with webbased transactional systems and standardsbased web service technologies in an ntier Java EE server environment including XML SOAP WSDL and ReST ideally in the context of occupational and/or business registry systems.

Indepth experience with thirdparty API/web service testing tools such as ReadyAPI SoapUI and Postman including design/coding techniques such as schema validation parameter passing and Groovy scripting.

Expert experience using IBM API Connect platform:

Indepth experience working with IBM API Connect gateway platform (or similar technology) as well as with PKI standardsbased certificates (X.509) and OpenID Connect (OIDC); excellent understanding of securebydesign concepts.

o Experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server Oracle and structured SQLbased query languages.

Expert experience with industrystandard security tools and protocols:

Experience using HP ALM/JIRA and CI/CD tools & processes such as Git/BitBucket Jenkins Ant and related tools IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) an asset

Must Have:

Extensive experience with webbased transactional systems and standardsbased web service technologies in an ntier Java EE server environment including XML SOAP WSDL and ReST

Indepth experience with thirdparty API/web service testing tools such as ReadyAPI

Indepth experience working with IBM API Connect gateway platform

Nice to have:

ideally in the context of occupational and/or business registry systems.

Demonstrated experience in customer relationship management in a technical context;

Ability to document technical artefacts clearly and perform knowledge transfer effectively to full time technical staff.