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Application Analyst

Eliassen Group
Saint Petersburg, FL Contractor
POSTED ON 9/27/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/28/2026
Description:
Hybrid 3 on in St. Petersburg, FL

Our client seeks an Application Analyst to coordinate Enterprise Asset Management release readiness, deployment planning, implementation activities, communications, validation tracking, and post-release follow-up. The role supports major, sprint, emergency, maintenance, and off-cycle deployments across application, mobility, integration, analytics, GIS, design tools, environment management, application maintenance, business support, and Change Management teams.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $45.00 to $50.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain release plans, timelines, milestone schedules, readiness checkpoints, contact lists, communication schedules, go/no-go materials, status trackers, risk registers, and action-item logs.
  • Coordinate planning discussions, status meetings, pre-job briefings, readiness reviews, deployment activities, and post-release sessions across application, technical, environment, testing, business support, and vendor teams.
  • Support implementation windows, including evening and weekend activities when required. Monitor progress, maintain status channels, communicate schedule changes, and escalate issues affecting availability, testing, or service restoration.
  • Prepare clear communications for technical teams, business partners, IT management, leadership, users, and Change Management, including readiness updates, notices, status reports, checkout updates, issue notifications, decision requests, summaries, and all-clear messages.
  • Track technical and functional checkout readiness, collect validation results, identify gaps, and support accurate inputs for go/no-go decisions.
  • Partner with support, delivery, infrastructure, database, environment, vendor, testing, business, and Change Management teams to align on sequencing, dependencies, and release milestones.
  • Assist with Change Requests, QA documentation, implementation plans, validation evidence, and records required for execution and compliance. Promote adherence to Change Management, testing, source control, documentation, and Human Performance requirements.
  • Respond to production issues and coordinate during incidents, disruption events, failed implementations, and deployment exceptions within defined SLAs.
  • Document risks, blockers, lessons learned, gaps, and improvement opportunities. Support retrospectives and help mature repeatable release management practices.

Experience Requirements:
  • 1 to 3 years as an IT Application Analyst, Release Analyst, Release Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Change Management Analyst, or equivalent.
  • Experience coordinating application releases, deployments, implementation activities, or production changes.
  • Experience developing and maintaining release plans, implementation schedules, readiness trackers, status reports, risk logs, and action-item trackers.
  • Troubleshooting, problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
  • Experience coordinating work across application, infrastructure, database, environment, testing, vendor, and business teams.
  • Working knowledge of Change Management, incident management, application support, testing, and production implementation practices.
  • Ability to track multiple workstreams, dependencies, risks, decisions, and milestones simultaneously.
  • Ability to communicate technical information clearly to technical teams, business partners, users, IT management, and leadership.
  • Ability to work effectively with limited direction and exercise sound judgment regarding communication, escalation, and release readiness.
  • Ability to support implementation activities outside normal business hours, including evening and weekend windows when required.
  • Preferred: Experience with EAM or complex integrated enterprise portfolios, coordinating various release types, facilitating readiness reviews and retrospectives, checkout and validation, SDLC (Agile/Waterfall), ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools, vendor and distributed teams, and enterprise standards and audit-ready documentation.

Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 4 years of related business or IT experience.

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Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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