Description
Job #5157
Sr Business Technology Analyst - Tulsa
Type of Position: Contract
Location: Tulsa, OK
40 hour work week
*Candidate hired will be an Ntelicor W2 employee*
Job Purpose
The Business Systems Analyst interacts with business units, other technology teams, and the development team in describing software products and services to be delivered. The role focuses on determining operational objectives by analysing business functions, gathering technical information, evaluating output requirements and recommending controls by identifying problems. BSA's may be involved in supporting customer/business needs around user administration, configuration management (custom or off the shelf), communicating system behaviors, reporting, performance, monitoring, coordinating system needs (end of service life, patching, upgrading), support incoming bugs & defects as well as assist project managers with change requests, small enhancements and contribute to any incoming project initiatives.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Generating, decomposing, and managing requirements for developers and quality assurance personnel.
- Analyzing, validating and troubleshooting product at the sub-component level including validation of web service layer, ability to consume system logs, ability to traverse database, etc. Examples include XML interface, database validation, etc.
- In addition, validates product at the sub-component level, examples include XML interface, database validation, etc.
- Improves systems by studying current practices, designing modifications
- Support distributed systems that may have database, message queue or other technological dependencies
- Documenting and delivering technical artifacts including flow and sequence diagrams, UML models
- Facilitating business units in defining project goals and scope.
- Leading some information gathering and analysis efforts on projects.
- Collaborating with fellow business systems analysts.
- Additional projects, duties and responsibilities as assigned by manager
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in CS/MIS/CIS/Technology or Business Analysis related field or equivalent experience/training.
- 3+ years of relevant system development experience, focused on technical solution delivery.
- Possesses experience managing user stores within an agile software development process.
- Elicits business and technical requirements utilizing a variety of techniques.
- Responsible for non-functional requirement, including availability, security, response time, etc.
- Understands system limitations which may constrain delivery of functional requirements (based on architecture, as an example) and asks business qualifying questions.
- Able to logically decompose operations into individual scenarios that exercise most aspects of the original operation.
- Possesses strong written communication skills, expressing information and key points clearly and concisely.
- Assimilates new ideas and concepts quickly.
- Listens to and ensures the viewpoints of others are heard.
- Able to explain and guide others through their logical thinking process.
- Makes effective presentations to small and mid-size audiences.
- Raises questions and issues comfortably with groups or one-on-one.
- Responds to questions with easy to understand answers backed by sound reasoning.
- Reads and perceives implications of data formatted in XML.
- In addition, iterates with the development team based on technical and non-functional requirements.
- Possesses a basic knowledge of software architectural patterns and principles such as SOA, ETL, ESB, and MDM.
- Demonstrates a basic knowledge of relational database theory; able to read simple database design diagrams.
- In addition, performs fit/gap analysis on technical integration components, including data models, interface documents and/or schemas.
- Possesses a broad experience with a variety of diagram types (such as flow charts, sequence diagrams, etc ) with commensurate experience in tooling
- Interacts in a professional and positive manner, quickly developing a rapport with others.
- Possesses experience defining unstructured situations in terms of results and establishing a plan to reach them.
- Adaptable to unexpected events, new facts, and rapidly changing circumstances.
- Effective when given ambiguous tasks and assignments.
- Willing to do the detailed work necessary to ensure the success of a project.
- Proactively identifies ways to improve processes and techniques in themselves.