Technical Analyst

Technical Analyst

MUST BE LOCAL FOR ONSITE INTERVIEW
Location: Vienna, VA (hybrid)
Pay Rate: Negotiable
Position Type: Long Term Contract



Description:
Technical Analyst position is targeted specifically to contractors with 8 or more years of relevant information technology experience to support the company's team in developing industry leading web, mobile, chat and voice solutions to meet our Members’ evolving financial needs. The role involves collaboration with business analysts, solution architects, developers, and testers to assess needs and define the technical system requirements for solutions.



Responsibilities:


Assume leadership of collaboration with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product


Proactively identify requirement gaps and issue to product ownership


Ensure non-happy path scenarios are considered and handled


Advocate for solutions that consider ease of maintenance and component reuse opportunities


Leverage available documentation and exercises test versions of applications and APIs to understand existing functionality to inform enhancement opportunities and creation of new capabilities


Investigate enterprise and vendor APIs to determine whether necessary data is available to support intended system capabilities


Map data between interfacing systems


Assist 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


Participate in project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), demos/reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, and other Scrum-related meetings.


Perform application and services tests/validations


Responsible for creating system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications


Provide 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


Demonstrate ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines that require managing multiple priorities concurrently


Utilize system documentation, database information, application logs and scenario testing to determine root cause of system issues.



Have general 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 front end mobile and/or web application requirements is a plus


Writing back end service requirements is a plus


Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs is a plus



+ Must Have's:


Experience capturing technical requirements for information systems/applications


Experience working with APIs


Familiarity with multi-tier applications (application layer, services layer, data layer)



+ Nice to Have's:


Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs


Experience working on requirements for native mobile applications

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