Technical Systems Analyst

Business Systems AnalysisDuration: 6 mos (+) contract to hire Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid - 2 consecutive days onsite per month) Interview process: Phone, WebEx, or in-personSummary: Our client is looking for a highly skilled Business Systems Analyst to work on an API Development Team and write Technical Requirements/Functional Specs and Swagger Documents for new and enhanced APIs. Candidate will be responsible for understanding the business requirements and converting them into functional/technical specs, including Swagger/JSON Interface Specs, for the development of APIs/Web Services that will run on Amazon's AWS cloud. This role will be as part of a vibrant, high-energy development team.Requirements:Hands-on understanding of the healthcare and health insurance industry (i.e. data domains such as Claims data, Provider data, Benefits Data, Membership/Enrollment/Coverage Data)Experience in integration projects on a Real-time transaction development teamData Analysis skillsComfortable querying data in NoSQL and Relational databases.Strong Communication Skills – at a technical level with the development team, and with project managers and managers/directorsResponsible for being the technical SME of the APIs as they are developed by the development team through both an Agile and waterfall development processes – thorough requirements, development, test, and productionAbility to interface with the Software Quality Assurance SQA team to sign off on the test plan and test cases of the API, and then be able to support the new API as it goes through SQA, and UAT testing.Ability to support the API in productionExperience:7+ years of experience total in ITAt least 2 years of hands-on Java developmentPreferred:Analyst with development experience