Senior System Analyst

Job 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 Government 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.
• bility to evaluate recommendations and ensures all recommended solutions for improvement are congruent with the project goals and objectives Identifies short and long-term 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 cost effective 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 multi-dimensional and relational databases and their applications for effective planning, budgeting, strategizing and forecasting procedures.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex applications utilizing relational and multi-dimensional 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.ment/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.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Desirable Skills:

• Systems Analysis Experience - 40%
• 10+ years of System Analysis and Design experience, preferably in a large, complex business environment.
• Expert knowledge in reverse engineering Physical Data Models creating Entity
• Relationship Models (ERD) and Metadata Reports.
• Demonstrated experience within all project cycles from Analysis, Design to
• Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Knowledge and experience related to TRA (Threat, Risk, Assessment) process and prepare appropriate documents.
• Experience preparing architecture artifacts, including TRA artifacts.

Business, Testing & Integration Experience - 20%:

• 10+ years of Business Analysis experience including running JAD sessions, UAT and gathering requirements.
• 10+ years of system testing, integration testing experience.
• Demonstrated experience with system Integration experience including ability to understand different systems and pick up new technologies quickly.
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients.
• Proven experience with requirement elicitation techniques such as User interviews, Workshops, JAD facilitation and interpretation of business needs into system design requirements.
• Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans.

Public Sector experience - 5%:

• Knowledge of GO-IT Standards (GO-ITS) and Enterprise Architecture within the RGDMS system.

ODA Experience - 5%:

• Hands on experience with AODA and knowledge of accessibility compliance principles as presented in WCAG 2.0, level AA.