IT Systems Analyst Job Description

IT Systems Analyst Job Description

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IT systems analyst provides management of the software development life cycle from development to delivery ensuring milestones are properly defined and achieved.

IT Systems Analyst Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Maintaining current applications, custom applications, computing infrastructure, and security infrastructure
Planning, developing, and executing system/security improvement projects
Deploy new IT programs to provide excellent service in the areas of client applications, services, and solutions
Manage implementation efforts and foster strong collaborative customer relationships
Prepare documentation for IT support resources on new functionality and supporting material
Identify opportunities to optimize IT programs and services by studying business functions, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats
Perform business process analysis, needs assessments, and cost/benefit analysis in an effort to align information technology solutions with business initiatives
Assess, research and analyzes business and system needs, exploring alternative options to recommend technology solutions and designs that meet sponsor needs and PLC deliverables including component reusability, data sharing and security
Contributes and develops proposals for senior management
Contributes to high level and detailed technical specifications for small to medium projects in accordance with PLC, security and architecture documentation objectives

IT Systems Analyst Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for IT Systems Analyst

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, PMP, MCP, PBA, PMI, CBAP, MCSE, API, BABOK, TOGAF

Education for IT Systems Analyst

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Employers hiring for the IT systems analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Computer Science, Education, Information Technology, Technical, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Technology, Computer, Management Information Systems

Skills for IT Systems Analyst

Desired skills for IT systems analyst include:

Processes and services
Software development concepts
Multiple software delivery life cycles
Microsoft Office products and applicable databases
Third party administration/claims management business and technology
Modeling techniques and usecase development experience with software development frameworks
Multiple software delivery life cycles and usecase development
Business productivity products
Health Care Industry and related business functions
Project management

Desired experience for IT systems analyst includes:

Ability to write custom scripts (VBA, VBScript, Batch and Java)
Contributes criteria for and participates in the evaluation of 3rd party vendors and software due diligence exercises
Understand and advise teams on BB&T’s Software Development Life Cycle
Act as point person on risk responsibilities for ADS - understand the ADS Risks, mitigation plans, and work with teams to explain the risks
Providing consulting services to find an appropriate time tracking application to implement in order to automate several reporting features and functions
Clearly articulating the implementation procedures to the business

IT Systems Analyst Examples

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IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of IT systems analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for IT systems analyst
  • Responsible for leading the Business Requirements, Functional Design and support of the test phases of the solutions delivery life cycle
  • Deliver appropriate documented designs, reports and communications to ensure effective operation of the IT Systems Analysis function and to ensure effective visibility and communication of its objectives and working methods - URS, BRS, FDS
  • Develop, own and maintain effective working relationships with operations leaders, SDMs and key delivery leaders in our business creating a culture of shared ownership of our solutions and delivering accountability in system analysis and user acceptance testing functions
  • The position is a mix of Systems Analyst (approx
  • Identifies system impact of changes in business, user needs, external business environment
  • Identifies solution methods
  • Develops moderately complex business solutions
  • Develops and submits Business Systems Change Orders (BSCO) and coordinates implementation
  • Provides for and/or participates in user training in functional organizations as required
  • May provide work direction for support personnel
Qualifications for IT systems analyst
  • Primary interface between the business and the Information Technology department in understanding and interpreting and documenting the needs of each organization to the other, for the purpose of furthering AEP's overall implementation of business strategy
  • Will work under the leadership of the Project Manager for all project task related estimates, and actuals reporting for delivery of assigned tasks from the Plan Phase forward
  • Will work closely with the individual business process owners in the business in understanding requirements and testing needs
  • Will provide evaluations and recommendations for any items believed to have an impact on project deliverables
  • Will look for opportunities to consolidate data and recommend or improve business processes and or procedural changes, wherever possible
  • Will assist in the identification of any new or enhanced functionality required by acting as the primary customer advocate within IT on system implementations and process reengineering efforts in assigned project areas
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of IT systems analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for IT systems analyst
  • Assist with initial determination of the feasibility of requests and ensure user requirements are thoroughly and accurately documented in accordance with standard techniques
  • Interact with team members, the user community and others on an ongoing basis to ensure accurate identification and delivery of business requirements
  • Make formal recommendations, and write application specifications, including conversion, upgrade and interface routines
  • Team up with business partners and developers to set realistic response time and/or deliverable expectations
  • Manage the implementation of the approved development in partnership with developers and business partners
  • By nature of the job, business analysts spend a great deal of time interacting with users, clients, management and developers
  • The Business Analyst will need to elicit and document business and functional requirements and provide and be able to put them into BRDs (Business Requirements Document), System Requirement diagrams, Business Process Workflows, User Requirements documentation, and system Test Cases
  • The BEST people will be able to think about the problem differently in order to fill in the requirement gaps
  • Resource management (data collection and analysis)
  • Procedures development (preparation, analysis of requirements from internal customers, discussion with stakeholders and implementation)
Qualifications for IT systems analyst
  • Will create assigned documentation in conformance with AEP established project guidelines, unless otherwise modified and approved by project team leadership
  • Will need to communicate effectively with technical and business resources assigned to the project
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office tools like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Data Modelling and SQL skills
  • Attention to detail and accuracy is crucial
  • Experience working on enterprise systems such as CRM, ERP, ECM, voice systems
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of IT systems analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for IT systems analyst
  • Employees training
  • Statistics reports for Management
  • Develop and document business requirements through a variety of means such as, but not limited to user interviews, surveys, workflow reviews, research on industry best practices, and user workshops
  • Conduct data analysis, design and configure product and business configuration for system functionality, and specify data requirement and constraints of surrounding systems
  • Maintenance and improvements of systems related to Institutional Research, Budget, Comptroller, and Human Resources
  • Maintenance of the USMO website and accompanying portals including Board of Regents, Institutional Research, Council of University System Presidents, and Human Resources
  • Communicating with internal and external stakeholders of current systems
  • Define the problem
  • Gather data/evidence
  • Ask why and identify the causal relationships associated with the defined problem
Qualifications for IT systems analyst
  • Development experience with the SFDC toolkit
  • Experience and working knowledge of Relational DBMS development using PL/SQL (Oracle) or T-SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)
  • At least 3 years of experience in Software, IT, Hospitality, Gaming, or related field
  • Ability to gather and analyze business processes needs and translate into requirements and technical specifications for solution design and delivery
  • Ability to listen effectively, process information, asks appropriate questions for clarification, and execute tasks accordingly
  • Ability to effectively communicate with multiple vendor, IT, and business contacts
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IT Systems Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an IT systems analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for IT systems analyst
  • Identify effective solutions that prevent recurrence, are within your control, meet your goals and objectives and do not cause other problems
  • Implement the recommendations if in your control or make recommendations if outside your area of responsibility
  • Observe the recommended solutions to ensure effectiveness
  • Develop and prepare reports for upgrading and maintaining multi-user computer systems
  • Coordinate and ensure that quality customer service in the technical support area is provided
  • Contact and coordinate with corporate IT to resolve any network issues
  • Creates documentation for information systems projects is required, including functional and non-functional requirements, use cases, data dictionaries, crosswalks, design specifications, test plans and scripts
  • Provide consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top level contributor/specialist of most phases of systems analysis, while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment
  • Serve as the primary liaison between business units and the engineering and IT teams to provide technology support and enable continuous process
  • Coordinate and collaborate with functional users and IT team to find solutions to problems identified in testing, resolve issues during systems upgrades, ensure that requirements documentation is easily translated into UAT (user acceptance training)/functional test plans, and ensure that proper testing of all systems functionality is completed
Qualifications for IT systems analyst
  • Hospitality/resort experience, familiarity with Springer-Miller Systems, Micros, Delphi, SpaSoft
  • Five (5) to six (6) years of related experience
  • Strong negotiating, written & verbal communication and problem-solving required
  • Knowledge of Oracle and/or Oracle Advanced Pricing preferred
  • SAS Analytics
  • CRM and Advertising Systems
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Our company is looking to fill the role of IT systems analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for IT systems analyst
  • Identify risk and remediation plans in conjunction with business and IT team
  • Performs other information technology and business analysis duties as required to support assigned enterprise systems
  • Work in the IT organization of about 250 people
  • Develop or coordinate with individuals or teams to create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Communicate SOP content or train the OCIO IT teams on the procedures
  • Support audit record-keeping year-round and evidence gathering for OCIO IT audits
  • Train staff on audit workflows and how-to properly manage processes
  • Develop strategies to drive process consistency in teams and in documents to support development life cycle and governance processes
  • Recommend and implement best practices for tasking
  • Facilitate teams with very diverse viewpoints when defining processes
Qualifications for IT systems analyst
  • Experience working in Commodity trading specific functional areas like Counterparty / Trade Execution / Logistics / Valuations / Settlements
  • OBIEE(Answers/Dashboards/RPD)
  • Apex (desirable)
  • Knowledge of any ETL Tool
  • He/She should have good attitude for learning, good communication skills and flexible to work on different technologies
  • Self-starters that like to operate in a flat team structure where people organize themselves to get the job done, rather than waiting to be told what to do

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