Description:

• 6 or more years work experience in an application development and/or systems analysis role or equivalent combination of transferrable experience and education.
• Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience
• Thorough knowledge of Information Technology fields and computer systems
• Demonstrated organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills
• Strong understanding of integration points of assigned business/systems and processes
• Proven leadership abilities including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness
• Proficient in requirements gathering methodologies and the SDLC
• Understanding of a variety of architecture standards and ability to apply them in their design work
• Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance
• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of systems, subsystems, development methodologies, systems architecture, tools and processes that support the assigned business initiative or system

Preferred :

• Experience using Agile methodology

• Knowledge of healthcare insurance industry

Requirements:

• Analyzes business requirements to determine technical requirements and identifies impacted areas/systems/processes and evaluates alternative solutions
• Researches and assists in designs solutions for general maintenance requests to resolve system problems
• Prepares detailed system requirements and assists in functional design solutions for new products/functionality and enhancements to existing products/functionality
• Provide oversight and final review of design specification
• Lead effort to identify and evaluate alternative solutions
• Take the initiative to seek out areas of improvement
• Act as a design team leader to ensure progress against goals and timely reporting to management
• Assigned to highly complex projects, systems or initiatives
• Act as a mentor, providing coaching and guidance and reviewing work of other SAs. Oversees the design artifacts produced by other SAs to ensure the necessary design considerations were made
• Provides input into forecasting and project-planning for scope/requirements documents and/or vendor contracts to minimize risk to on time, cost effective solution fulfillment.
• Prepares high level proposals that identify viable options to address the client’s needs. Works with appropriate parties to gain approval of proposal and initiate work.
• Leads a systematic process for capturing requirements. Works with partners to capture requirements in a standard format that can serve as the foundation for developing technical documentation.
• Using SDLC processes and associated tools, analyzes current system targeted for replacement/enhancement to determine business and technical functions to be included in design.
• Works with Developers and other IT staff to determine system components and functional flow of components and data between components.
• May determine the best-suited technology to meet the business requirements.
• Creates detailed program specifications from which a developer can code.
• Validates the design documentation with the appropriate parties and receives approval on these documents. Reviews final design documents to ensure that they clearly explain the work expectations.
• Clarifies design expectations. Answers business and technical questions. Researches and involves appropriate parties to resolve more complex business and technical issues.
• Continuously assesses systems as business direction changes for impacts to existing designs. Understands impacts and works as appropriate to determine best solution.
• Provide consultative support for the systems within their product family
• Partner with BSA and other IT staff to ensure the design fulfills business and technical requirements
• Responsible for relationship management responsibilities for assigned vendors
• Prepare technical documentation and deliverables including flow charts, models, and procedures, user guides, scorecards and reporting.
• Ensures adherence to practices, standards, policies and procedures.
• Assists in test execution for various system components.
• Prepares complex test strategies to ensure comprehensive coverage of system components and interfaces, provides SME level expertise and recommends test strategies and scenarios for junior level analysts.
• Influences business/stakeholders and/or is instrumental in driving business decisions while proposing solutions built on Value Proposition
• Develops and documents vetted contingency plans in case of risks or roadblocks
• Advocates effective solutions that are flexible to accommodate future enhancements
• Responsible for consensus and relationship building between Business, IT teams and BRMs
• Accountable for clearly linking the IT solution to the business vision/strategy while coaching junior analysts to help them understand the business priorities
• Complete Testing life cycle knowledge and execution