BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST (SE)Title: BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST (SE)
Location: United States-Missouri-St. Louis
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Title: Business System Analyst/Project Manager (SE)
Location: St. Louis, MO
Company Overview:
Equifax Workforce Solutions /TALX provides software products, solutions and services to HR, Payroll, and Tax departments at organizations of all sizes in all industries including the public sector
Position Overview:
The Business System Analyst/Project Manager (SE) will work with clients (business unit or any related stake holder) to create solutions that meet their requirements and parallels overall business strategy. The SE develops functional specifications based on the client's requirements and will actively coordinate and maintain the interaction between the Product Development (PD) team and the client. This person is responsible for ensuring solutions created by PD meet client's current needs, and for evolving solutions over time as the client's needs change. The Systems Engineer may provide technical project management and collaborate with Web Services, project managers, architects, developers, database administrators, operations and Quality Assurance (QA) in the design and implementation of systems. He/she will also ensure TALX standards are maintained for system design, scalability, performance, and technical features, as well as provide mentoring for the Associate Systems Engineers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Develop Functional Specifications that satisfy client requirements
Analyze client requirements and their impact in other services and features
Facilitate specification meetings to clarify client system requirements and to develop a functional design that satisfies all client requirements
Collaborate with team members, clients, and other stake holders to review and refine requirements
Actively participate in problem resolution
Accommodate demands by clients, setting priorities when appropriate and escalating issues when needed
Coordinate and perform unit and integration testing
Work with clients and stake holders to obtain functional specification approval before development begins
Work with clients and Web Services to ensure appropriate usability analysis
Work with clients and QA to ensure appropriate testing procedures are employed
Develop or assist project managers in developing implementation plans, including the scheduling of project milestones
Identify out of scope requests and work with clients to determine an appropriate resolution
Identify risks and proactively minimize the impact
Be responsible for client and other stake holder satisfaction in the functional and technical performance of systems
Provide clients with ongoing support for applications
Collaborate with web services, developers, database administrators, operations and quality assurance in the design of all assigned systems; maintaining TALX design and development standards
Communicate project status to client, Product Development management, and other project stake holders
Meet defined business unit and other stake holder deadlines for all tasks on assigned projects
Develop and maintain positive and profitable relationships with clients
May act as the business unit's advocate in Product Development
May direct, plan, and monitor work for others to meet project deadlines
May provide architectural guidance to development team to ensure solution meets TALX standard architectural guidelines, security requirements, scalability needs, performance needs, and provides a solution which can sustain change in a reasonable manner over the lifecycle of the solution
Turn systems over to TALX operations teams within 2 weeks of system live date
Keep technical skills and knowledge of TALX technologies current
Stay abreast of current best practices in systems analysis and design
May conduct project team meetings and other project related events (requirements reviews, specification reviews, etc)
Maintain the highest level of integrity, courtesy, respect, and professionalism while interacting with clients, project team members, TALX employees, and business contacts
Work with team members to develop accurate and realistic project milestones and timelines while at the same time working to fulfill any client specific timeframe needs and/or expectations
Utilize Time Reporting, System Development tools and other professional tools as assigned by management
Support and maintenance of existing applications as needed
Encourage team work
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering or computer science and 4 year's experience in the technical field or related area
Good technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design and implementation
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Good analytical and design skills, good skills in research and analysis, project planning and implementation, and understanding of entire development process, including specification, documentation, and quality assurance
Work independently and has built good relationships with the business unit
Preferred Experience:
Prior development experience in a corporate environment
Project Management experience
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