| Duties & Responsibilites : | • Independently and proactively lead/facilitate efforts to identify opportunities to leverage technology to enable business success.
• Gather, evaluate, and document requirements for complex new systems or system enhancements based on business user input, technical requirements and constraints.
• Evaluate, analyze, streamline and document solution processes
• Analyze proposed system changes to identify strategies for meeting business objectives and impacts, including costs and effort required to implement.
• Develop innovative strategies for meeting business requirements, including leveraging the capabilities of existing technology tools or acquiring/developing new technology tools.
• Work effectively with business process owners to ensure business objectives are understood and documented.
• Perform complex detailed business design and document according to standards.
• Gather detailed business work processes and functional requirements and document according to standards.
• Conduct high-level analysis based on user requests. Recommend and document potential solutions.
• Prepare reports, flowcharts, diagrams, detailed documentation and other written materials.
• Present findings orally in meetings and presentations with key users and agency executives.
System Design:
• Design complex automated and manual solutions to solve business problems and achieve business objectives.
• Facilitate business owners and other technical staff in the development of innovative solution designs.
• Create complex written design documents, including scope and approach documents, feasibility studies, general system designs, detail system designs, test plans, etc.
• Create use cases and/or detailed program and database specifications.
• Coordinate with business users, technical staff and Software Quality Assurance Manager to develop test data and test procedures to verify application functionality. Oversee testing within a given project.
• Prepare a variety of reports, flowcharts, diagrams, detailed documentation and other written materials.
Project Management/Support:
• Perform project management activities on a broad range of projects, some of which will be large and complex.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, and assign tasks for timely project implementation
• Develop detailed project work plans for complex technology projects taking into account all phases of the System Development Life Cycle
• Acts as a liaison between the business partners and the technical staff. Make oral presentations to stakeholders, including executive management.
• Assist with user training required as part of software releases
• Assist with development of user documentation; prepare system documentation
• Assist with organization and people change management initiatives
• Manage risks and provide timely status reports and project updates to stakeholders
Implementation Management:
• Plan, organize, coordinate, and assign tasks required for more complex implementations
• Ensure all critical implementation activities have occurred successfully, including hardware installation, testing, user training, user documentation (procedures, user guides, etc.), readiness activities, etc.
• Monitor implementation activities and ensure appropriate user support is provided during production ramp-up
Technical Expertise and Guidance:
• Possesses and applies a broad range of expertise of technology principles, best practices and procedures to the completion of difficult and complex assignments crossing multiple functional areas
• Applies security best practices in accordance with VRS Security policies
• Applies comprehensive technical knowledge of software solutions analysis and design to the oversight of significant assignments, referring only the most complex technology issues to higher levels
• Ensures the successful integration of a variety of systems, platforms, and architectures
• Provides guidance, technical leadership, and training to less experienced staff, especially in software solutions analysis and design and project management
• Develops and documents technology processes and methodologies.
• Uses and promotes the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and recommends changes as appropriate. Works with both business partners and technical staff on adherence to the SDLC methodology to ensure quality project deliverables.
• Assists other technical staff with project selection and scoping, project management, change management, technology evaluations and planning, procurements, and integration of various technologies for VRS as required.
Technical Expertise
• Possesses and applies a broad range of expertise of technology principles, best practices and procedures to the completion of difficult and complex assignments crossing multiple functional areas
• Preferred experience includes System Development Life-Cycle experience working with large, complex systems and two years’ experience managing projects, organizing and coordinating multiple work assignments and priorities.
• Prior experience developing software solutions preferred.
Education and/or Experience:
-Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university in computer science or closely related field and 12 to 15 years of experience.
-Preferred experience includes 5 years of System Development Life-Cycle experience working with large, complex systems and two years’ experience managing projects, organizing and coordinating multiple work assignments and priorities.
-Prior experience developing software solutions preferred.
-PMP certification is desirable. These positions will be on a contract basis for a period of up to 12 months.
Required Skills:
-Business and System Analysis-Required-12 Years
-System Development Life-Cycle exp working with large complex systems-Required-7 Years
-Managing projects-Required-2 Years
-PMP-Highly desired-1 Years
-Web based systems and business support tools such as ECM, Data Warehouse, report generation-Required-5 Years
-ASP.net-Required-5 Years
-C#-Required-3 Years
-SQL or other query languages/tools-Required-5 Years
-Quality Center-Required-3 Years
-Version One-Nice to have-2 Years
-Altiris IT management and Workflow-Nice to have-2 Years
-Filenet-Nice to have-2 Years
-Sharepoint-Nice to have-3 Years
-General It security standards and practices-Required-5 Years
Interview Process:
In person
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