Systems Analyst 181569

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• BS/BA Degree or equivalent experience preferred
  
• Robust critical thinking skills coupled with a desire for growth, to learn and to engage with peers in technical and design discussions
  
• Experience in communicating technical needs and capabilities to non-technical team members, product owners, and partners
  
• Ability to utilize a long-term mentality to help produce scalable, maintainable solutions
  
• Passion to provide guidance on standard methodologies and mentoring support to the other Systems Analysts within the wider Digital Platforms Technology team
  
• 8+ years of experience, with a focus in financial services applications
  
• A sense of humor
  
• Experience collaborating in a team environment to develop, deploy, and support key applications and features
  
• A proven understanding of the Agile software development methodology
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, allowing you to interview Business partners to understand project objectives, use cases and requirements
  
• Strong analytical skills, enabling you to research, document and review existing systems and recommend designs for achieving requirements for self-contained projects within a larger program
  
• Proficiency in assisting in the writing of user requirements and all the supporting documentation
  
• Ability to diagram business processes and system workflows
  
• Expertise in conveying technical concepts with internal customers, technical team members, and/or other technical contributors across the organization
  
• Willingness to actively participate in defining project scope/backlog, while recommending solutions to project issues
  
• Desire to understand WS Digital Platforms’ web and mobile applications, while having the confidence to clearly communicate technical concepts to the internal partners inside and outside of the Scrum team
  
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt and thrive to meet the needs of a fast-paced and evolving environment
  
• Ability to provide strong support to Quality Assurance and Business partners throughout all testing phases, including participating in triaging system defects in production and non-production environments
  
• Extensive knowledge of internet, mobile, and application architecture, as well as current and emerging technologies
  
• Full grasp of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning
  
• Use of formal methods (traditional structured or Agile/iterative) for delivering new or improved applications, identifying and communicating systems development processes and generating requirement documentation associated with the respective phases of the lifecycle
  
• Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner
  
• Strong analytical skills and ability to tackle issues and work through ambiguous situations by making timely decisions based on facts, knowledge, experience and judgment
  
• Communicate effectively in various settings; one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, and senior management
  
• Skilled at influencing team members and external groups
  
• Proactively navigates the organization in order to accomplish tasks
  
• Willingness to work on multiple efforts simultaneously
  
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  
• Desire to be organized, highly responsive and committed to quality
  

Your experience with the following will be a plus:

• Ability to perform technical analysis of sophisticated Web application development concepts (Spring MVC, Spring Core, XML, CSS, etc.)
  
• Experience with database query tools / Strong SQL skills
  
• Experience with Java and Confluence
  
• Working understanding of QA automation