Business Systems Analyst- REMOTE

At GDIT, our employees are driven, resourceful, and unwavering. Our work depends on a Business Systems Analyst supporting Technical Support Services (TSS) for the United States Postal Service (USPS) activities located in Wilkes Barre, PA.

The Business Systems Analyst will be capable of working both independently and leading a team of programmers/developers/testers.  They will need to be capable of working directly with business customers to develop their requirements and develop application designs that are within postal standards.  This includes reviewing legacy applications and reverse engineering them to extract the business functionality and edit and develop specifications for enhanced business functionality into a new robust application design.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Analyzes and evaluates complex data processing systems both current and proposed, translating business area customer information systems requirements into design requirements
• Plans, estimates, conducts and supervises assignments generally involving the large projects
• Provides alternatives, recommendations, and assistance to Management involved in the development, integration, and installation of new products.
• Provides detailed functional specifications
• Provides Project Planning
• May coordinate the systems installation with the Client’s organization
• Performs logical database design and reviews physical database modeling
• Assists with Software Quality Assurance
• Assists with Requirements Management

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a business, computer science, information systems, business analysis related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of IT experience
• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Analyst
• Strong business analysis skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to adjust well in constantly changing environments
• Stays calm and composed under stress
• Effective at building strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff
• Effective liaison between business and technical teams
• Strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multiple groups
• Strong ability to guide development team activities from requirements to implementation in all aspects of a software development lifecycle with little supervision
• Perform analysis to support the development and validation of requirements
• Able to effectively translate business requirements/needs into detailed software requirements and support tasks utilizing Agile methodologies and setup of work management tools (like VersionOne)
• Able to communicate technical information to others, expressing facts or ideas clearly, orally or in writing, when answering questions, giving directions, and providing information, individually or in groups
• Microsoft Office with strong skills in PowerPoint, Project and Excel
• Ability to achieve a Public Trust clearance - the security clearance for this program requires the selected candidate to have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrated knowledge of terminology, usage, and operating characteristics of hardware, software, and operating system components
• Experience working with Web Applications.
• Working knowledge of the following
• CR tracking systems such as ServiceNow
• VersionOne tool to setup and track projects utilizing Agile methodologies
• Ability to assist with the development of simple to complex project plans utilizing Agile methodologies
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Some technical Web Design, JAVA, Windows knowledge
• Previous Quality Assurance testing experience

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: BA/BS or equivalent, 10+ years of experience