Position: System Analyst

Duration: 1 Year

Location: Augusta, Maine (Onsite from Day 1)

LOCAL TO MAINE

Top 3 Skills:

• Data Analysis
• Requirement Gathering
• Collaboration

Scope of Work:

• The State of Maine Application Development Group in support of the Department of Education is currently looking for a Systems Analyst to help round out the team.
• This position will be expected to collaborate with business and technical team to anticipate and communicate product needs and requirements.
• Perform analysis and documentation of business and system interactions.
• Design technical solutions to business issues and work with the Application Development team to implement those solutions.
• Be involved in all phases of the SDLC, including Requirements Definition and Documentation, Systems Analysis and Design, System Integration, User Acceptance Testing, and Deployment Coordination.
• Perform business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedures, and decision flows.
• Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document items such as database content, structure, application subsystems, and develop data dictionary.
• Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems.
• Identify candidate business processes for re-design, prototype potential solutions, provide trade-off information and suggest a recommended course of action. Identify the modifications to the automated processes.
• Facilitate processes for the team and vendors to ensure they are meeting Maine IT policy and procedures.
• Support and use the selected departmental methodologies.

Experience:

• 5 years related industry experience.

Preferred Education:

• 4-year college degree or equivalent working experience in business analytics/communications.
• Knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle as well as the project development cycle
• Strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to write clearly and effectively
• Demonstrated experience in gathering business requirements for system design including advanced methodologies like story mapping, impact mapping, user story writing and refinement
• Experience writing queries and analyzing data (SQL experience is a plus)
• Experience in Agile development methodology and practices
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a high paced team environment
• Experience in writing and executing test plans with attention to detail and quality focus