What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Analyst position at Strategic Staffing Solutions?
STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!
Application Analyst
St. Petersburg, FL (Hybrid schedule)
Duration: 36 Months
W2 Contract role
About the Role
Application Analyst, EAM Release Management
This is a versatile IT Analyst position that performs work related to application release management, production support, delivery, or a combination of these functions.
- In the Release Management role, coordinates release readiness, deployment planning, implementation activities, communications, technical and functional checkout tracking, go/no-go decision support, issue escalation, and post-release follow-up for Enterprise Asset Management applications and related IT solutions.
- Supports major releases, sprint releases, emergency releases, maintenance activities, and off-cycle deployments across application, mobility, integration, analytics, GIS, design tools, environment management, application maintenance, business support, and Change Management teams.
- Develops and maintains release plans, deployment timelines, milestone schedules, readiness checkpoints, contact lists, communication schedules, go/no-go materials, status trackers, risk registers, and action-item logs.
- Ensures release artifacts are accurate, current, and available to the teams responsible for planning, approving, implementing, testing, and supporting assigned releases.
- Coordinates release planning discussions, status meetings, pre-job briefings, readiness reviews, deployment activities, and post-release follow-up sessions.
- Collects and consolidates updates from application leads, technical teams, environment teams, test coordinators, business support organizations, vendors, and other release participants.
- Tracks dependencies, open issues, blockers, risks, decisions, and outstanding actions through completion.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related discipline. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 4 years of related business or information technology experience.
- 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.
- Demonstrated 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.
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