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Lead Systems Analyst: Madison, WI


2015-04-13 10:31:19
Job Type: Full Time only
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000

  • Lead the development of conceptual design for application enhancements by collaborating with other technical resources and ensuring conceptual design supports business objectives and high-level business requirements
  • Prepare approximate estimates for development efforts associated with application enhancements; reviewing high-level requirements and use cases
  • Review, approve and/or lead the development of technical design for application enhancements by facilitating a design review with stakeholders as needed to ensure application development meets architecture guidelines and standards
  • Serve as a subject matter expert by providing consultation during creation of test cases and answering all business and technical inquiries
  • Provide technical subject matter expertise for business and technical inquiries by responding to service desk escalations and developing resolutions to ensure quality level of service
  • Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to reward performance and value â??can doâ? people, accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity and fun
  • Adopt client values in personal work behaviors, decision-making, contributions and interpersonal interactions; manage own career development by soliciting feedback and valuing other perspectives.


Education

  • Bachelorâ??s Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Experience

  • 7+ years relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience

  • 5+ years of experience analyzing business requirements and creating technical requirements using UML; experience in application development; experience with service oriented architecture

Knowledge

  • Advanced working knowledge of basic application development standard procedures, concepts and principles
  • Familiarity with service definition, design and/or implementation using WSDL and/or SOAP; familiarity with development methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum/Agile)
  • Applied knowledge of design, development and testing of complex systems with large data throughput
  • Working knowledge of technical documentation
  • Working knowledge of software development lifecycle and relevant milestones

Skills

  • Developed written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
  • Lead a team and contribute to a team-oriented environment for software design, development and troubleshooting
  • Conduct gap analysis of current state and desired future state
  • Extrapolate from limited or complex data
  • Effectively present information to influence organizational leaders and key stakeholders
  • Creativity and alternative, open thinking to generate and support new or better ways of doing things
  • Identify measures of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system

Abilities

  • Adapt efforts to rapidly changing conditions such as requirements, schedule and/or product issues
  • Demonstrated interest in personal learning and enhancing knowledge
  • Escalate issues when necessary
  • Communicate information in a clear, well-organized and professional manner
  • Identify opportunities for improvement

Travel frequency

  • Infrequent (approximately 1-4 trips annually)


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