Job ID
Business Systems Analyst

Location

101-816
Length of Engagement: 1 Year Contract

Portland, OR

Position Description:
 
Responsibilities:
  • Provide leadership in gathering, clarifying, & documenting requirements for application projects, service and support requests within the Client. Analyze and resolve support and enhancement requests for numerous applications.
  • Responsibilities include the facilitation of work throughout the entire IT life cycle, which includes working with IT architects to identify a technical solution, facilitating IT estimates and staffing needs, providing work oversight and customer status, and facilitating user testing.
  • Actively work with customers to analyze business needs, gather and document business and system requirements
  • Heavy communication (verbal and written) with business system users, and IT staff
  • Write specifications for changes required for support and enhancements
  • Facilitate meetings and document outcome
  • Perform business process analysis
  • Facilitate user testing
  • Facilitate IT work estimates
  • Extensive understanding of business and technical side of each application assigned
  • Document use cases and closely interact with developers and QA
  • Understand IT processes and work within designated guidelines
  • Perform Application Ownership Responsibilities
  • Create test cases and test plans
  • Test and review support and enhancement application/code changes
  • Obtain approvals for support and enhancement changes from IT and business depts.
  • Assign and monitor coding effort for support and enhancement changes
  • Analyze and test environment changes for potential impact on each assigned application
  • 24x7 On-call responsibilities
  • Lead meetings for requirement gathering and issue resolution
  • Keep application documentation current with changes and issues
  • Provide expert level knowledge on each assigned application (both technical and business level), application interfaces, application environments, general impact analysis, IT processes for project, changes, and support.
  • Analyze and test Client business changes for potential impact on each application
  • Modify communication methods based on customer needs and personality
  • Provide quick high-level estimates for changes within a day
  • Perform database updates
  • Analyze data discrepancies
  • Create support tickets for situations that arise (such as customer calls, invalid test results outside areas that were changed)
  • High level analysis to provide PSR (enhancements) initial estimates
  • Attend meetings to represent application within IT and/or aid in business decisions
  • Monitor and review other projects or enhancements that are making changes to applications within area of responsibility
  • Maintain good working relationships with development staff
  • Provide informal application training to our customers
  • Work with the User Education team to keep training and help documents up-to-date.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience: 

  • Must have 5+ years experience in an IT analyst role
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Must have 2+ years experience IT technical experience
  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, VISIO, MS Project
  • SQL database display tools (like InSync, SQL Server, SPUFI)

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