Note:
Location: Tallahassee, Florida (Onsite)
C2C: Yes
Duration: 6+ Months
primary Skills: Test Plans/Cases/Scripts,Systems Analysis,Java,HTML,Javascript
Visa: H4EAD, green card or citizens preferred

Description of Services & Deliverables

ITS requires the services of one (1) full-time contract position of a Systems Analyst for software development and maintenance initiatives. This person will provide software support, maintenance, and development for the very complex SOPS system (and all of its components) as well as other information systems. The required skills are:

Technical knowledge and advanced experience programming in J2EE/JAVA, JBoss application server, JSF, SQL Server stored procedures, and Oracle database environments.
System development life cycle expertise understanding business, business insights and have a broad understanding of multiple business areas.
Performing technical research and make recommendations related to current industry trends, emerging technologies, systems integration, design recommendations, and configuration for meeting the functional and nonfunctional requirements.
Stakeholder management with project sponsors, business and IT project managers, technical architects, development and validation teams, implementation analysts, subject matter experts, IT Senior leadership and project management offices in order to address various issues, resolve queries, communicate project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.

Systems Analyst responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:
Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop Information Systems
Provide structured, detailed analysis of business processes
Function as a technical consultant or researcher
Perform technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc.
Analyze detailed requirements and documentation
Program and implement efficient solutions for business requirements
Contribute to project planning, organization, implementation
Contribute to task definition, task sequencing, task resource estimating, task duration estimating, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development
Contribute to risk identification, tracking, and analysis
Contribute to issue management and tracking
Effective communications management
Effective communication among project stakeholders
Coordinate activities with staff required to support the project and/or maintenance
Aid staff in the preparation of procurement documents, evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations
Provide weekly status reports to the project manager and/or Supervisor

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum of five (5) years of experience as a systems analyst on successful, enterprise level information technology projects
Work independently or cooperatively with other software developers and/or lead developer
Model and apply software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions
Perform analysis and successful troubleshooting of system defects and issues
Experience with business analysis to gather and document requirements
Experience creating test plans, test cases, and performance testing
Ability to code according to specifications with minimal defects to ensure quality results
Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software
Assist with technology solution architecture design and installation
Experience in programming to adhere to ADA compliance in web applications
Experience in delivering projects in the agreed upon schedule, to the correct technical specifications, and within the approved budget
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience developing with:
JBoss EAP 7.0 and higher
Java 8.0 and higher
J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA/Hibernate)
Java Frameworks like JSF
Primefaces
Oracle 12c and higher
SQL stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
JavaScript
VBScript
XML, XHTML, HTML5
CSS
JSON file format
REST APIs and Web Services

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
JOSSO 1.8.5 SMTP
IMAP
Unix-basic scripting and commands
NEIM standard
SMTP
JIRA
Address Standardization Tools
Alfresco
Jasper Reports
Springboot
Angular
Integration with 3rd party software (e.g., address/geocode validation services)