Senior Analyst, Production Systems

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Your New Role: The Senior Analyst, Production Systems is responsible for supporting applications by responding to and resolving production incidents and service requests. This is accomplished by diagnosing production support system problems, interacting effectively with internal customers and system vendors. The Analyst performs systems maintenance and ensures documentation standards and procedures are in place and evaluates opportunities for process improvement. This individual can function as a project manager while focusing on multiple, technically complex, mission-critical, and/or high profile issues.

• Manage customer escalations and issue triage efficiently.
• Track and report key metrics.
• Research trends to prevent issues by collaborating with experts to implement fixes.
• Manage technology group transition plans.
• Diagnose system failures and implement solutions; communicate key customer updates to management.
• Ensure documentation is updated in the system management tools.
• Conduct application readiness tests post-maintenance and provide critical support coverage on a rotating basis.
• Utilize SQL, MAXL, and other programming languages for issue diagnosis and resolution.
• Engage in network troubleshooting and monitor application performance, making updates as needed.
• Train customers and enforce security policies consistently.
• Work closely with management to develop and enhance application processes and internal procedures.
• Continuous review of current documentation used by the support team. Update and communicate changes as needed.
• Diagnose and analyze monthly metrics to identify improvements needed to reduce reoccurrences of issues.
• Identify issue trends and report information to Manager and Problem Management team.
• Collaborate with the Implementation Project Manager to guide the functional strategy of assigned projects.
• Provide insights on documented requirements for system improvements and feasibility.
• Direct software developers in creating functional designs and assist with testing activities, including User Acceptance Testing.
• Manage prototype demonstrations and analyze technical trade-offs, communicating these to stakeholders.
• Conduct ad hoc queries, interpret data models, and analyze software designs to understand technical capabilities and limitations.
• Support compliance with operational standards like change management and disaster recovery.
• Facilitate customer understanding of the software development lifecycle, managing their expectations and explaining workflow impacts.
• Provide oversight of project analysis, project planning, task strategy, and mentoring of other Business Analysts to assist with problem resolution across projects.
• Provide budget management, resource management, and project status reporting for assigned projects.
• Communicate regularly with management team members regarding task or project status and opportunities to improve service levels or business processes. Escalate issues as appropriate to ensure quality service.

Educational and Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in MIS/CIS or Computer Science preferred, or equivalent business or technology education/training/experience. Advanced degree preferred.
• Professional certification in business or IT (e.g., consulting, PeopleSoft) preferred
• ITIL certification preferred

Technical Expertise:

• At least 5 years combined technical and functional business experience.
• Minimum of 3 years Information Technology experience.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully perform the various aspects of the Analyst role across multiple, complex system implementations with custom and third-party applications.
• Ability to work as part of a self-directed team, in which you determine your tasks daily in coordination to coworkers, rather than waiting for work to be assigned to you.
• In-depth understanding of client-server architecture and custom web application development projects; understanding of structured development methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile (SDLC).
• In-depth understanding of relational databases and queries; knowledge of XML, HTML and web services.
• Advanced skills using the MS Office suite and process modeling tools.

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