Technical Systems Analyst

ALTA IT Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of System One, a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions and integrated services. ALTA is an established leader in IT Staffing and Services, for both government and commercial enterprises across the United States, specializing in Program & Project Management, Application Development, Cybersecurity, Data & Advanced Analytics, and Agile Transformation Services.

Systems Analyst
Hybrid in Vienna, VA
Contract

The Technical Analyst position supports the team in developing industry leading web and mobile solutions to meet customer's evolving needs and provide internal representatives with capabilities to support those needs. The role involves collaboration with business analysts, solution architects, developers, and testers to assess needs and define the technical system requirements for solutions.

Top 3 Required Skills:
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Putting together API services request and response elements and/or testing of the same, using tools such as Postman or Soap UI or something similar
• Setting up and running sql scripts for database querying and updating

Top 3 Desired Skills:
• Worked in an agile environment and has an agile mindset
• Knowledge of and/or use of Azure Dev Ops
• Writing clear and concise documentation

Job Description:
• Collaborates with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product
• Leverages available documentation and exercises test versions of applications and APIs to understand existing functionality to inform replatforming and enhancement opportunities
• Investigates enterprise and vendor APIs to determine whether necessary data is available to support intended system capabilities
• Maps data between interfacing systems
• Assists lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics to ensure work focuses on requirements with maximum value and are aligned with product delivery strategy
• Participates in project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), demos/reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Performs application and services tests.
• Responsible for creating system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications.
• Provides demos to internal project team, as well as to business stakeholders.
• Works closely with Business, Quality Assurance team and developers on projects and to address production issues.
• Demonstrates ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines that require managing multiple priorities concurrently
• Utilizes system documentation, database information, application logs and scenario testing to determine root cause of system issues.

Have in-depth understanding or working knowledge of the following:
• Services-Oriented Architecture / Microservices
• Multi-tier applications (presentation tier/services-processing tier/data management tier)
• Enterprise and vendor API integration
• Managing system behavior through configurable variables
• Error handling
• XML and JSON data structures

Qualifications/Experience:
• Ability to write SQL queries
• Problem solving skill - Works well under pressure and challenges, team-player, good listener, analytical, creative, approachable, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership within the organization
• Conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products
• Work in Agile methodology
• Writing requirements for a system
• Writing mobile and/or web application requirements is a plus
• Writing mobile service and/or web service requirements is a plus
• Proficiency with API access tools such as Postman and SoapUI is a plus

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