Systems Analyst

Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Maryland Woodlawn
Visa Status: US citizen OR Green Card holder
Duration: Long Tern

Description of Work:

The System Analyst (SA) will support key initiatives within team including eLAS, CCM and CHIP projects. The SA will work closely with the client’s business partner and SMEs in the definition of functional requirements, testing/validation, training, data flow and workflow analysis. A systems analyst collects information to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems. They perform research on any reported problem, plans, proposes a solutions, advocates software and systems, coordinates the problem solving process, and ensures that the business standards and business/functional requirements being addressed and documented. They are also quite familiar with a host of computer programming languages, operating systems, and computer hardware platforms as they often translate client’s requests into technical specifications. In this way, systems analysts are a kind of link between Developers and everyone else in the agile team.

Additional responsibilities include:

  • Provide analytical and technical support to enable design, development, validation, integration, and implementation.
  • Provide support for creating technical documentation.
  • Provide critical technical recommendations/solutions for complex problems.
  • Provide technical support to analyze the modern architecture and development environment.
  • Support testing and UAT efforts
  • Design/Develop system diagrams and presentation materials using industry standards, guidelines and formats for various technical and management forums.
  • Elicit and analyze user, functional, non-functional, Section 508, and other detailed requirements for Online, Mobile/Telephone applications and Interfaces.
  • Collaborate with programmers to translate business requirements design and system specifications.
  • Provide support with organizing Sprints and assistance with team cohesiveness.
  • Provide support in development of documentation and presentations of demos for each sprint or software work-package to stakeholders. 
  • Collaborate with self-organizing, cross-functional teams for software development

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years of relevant work experience; Masters and 5 years of relative experience; or a minimum 11 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience working as System Analyst using tools such as Microsoft Office Suite, ALM, XML, and TOAD.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience conducting business analysis, data analysis, developing, and documenting system requirements, database requirements and providing manual testing when required
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience working on mainframe, SQL and Relational Databases such as DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum methodology projects, VersionOne.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience working with API’s and testing tools such as SoapUI.
  • Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
  • Must be US Citizen or US Permanent Resident (Green card holder)
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Prior Federal experience a plus.
  • Mainframe experience
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with process flow documentation creation, presentation and conducting trainings.
  • Prior experience supporting Web Technologies. Ability to quickly understand government specific architectures, existing and proposed, and provide/propose solutions for technical problems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills along with the ability to effectively interface with the team, stakeholders, and developers.
  • Self-starter, highly motivated individual, and a team player who adapts to a dynamic work environment Understanding and developing of mobile/telephonic applications and interfaces.

Education / Experience:

Doctorate and 03 years’ experience

Masters and 05 years’ experience

Bachelors and 07 years’ experience

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