Technical Analyst

EDGE Services

$80K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in capturing technical requirements for applications
  • Proficient in writing SQL queries and conducting technical analysis
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to handle pressure
  • Excellent communication skills across various organizational levels
  • Experience in Agile methodology and writing system requirements
  • Familiarity with services-oriented architecture and API integration
  • Knowledge of XML and JSON data structures.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product ownership on technical system requirements
  • Leverage documentation to inform enhancements and new capabilities
  • Investigate APIs for necessary data availability
  • Map data between systems
  • Assist in prioritizing features and epics based on product strategy
  • Participate in Agile project planning and scrum meetings
  • Perform application tests and create requirement documentation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with cross-functional teams
  • Engagement in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Exposure to innovative projects in a financial context
  • Potential for professional growth and skill development
  • Ability to influence product delivery strategy through technical insights.
Full Job Description
Job Description:
  • Collaborate with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product
  • Leverage available documentation and exercises test versions of applications and APIs to understand existing functionality to inform enhancement opportunities and creation of new capabilities
  • Investigate enterprise and vendor APIs to determine whether necessary data is available to support intended system capabilities
  • Map data between interfacing systems
  • Assist lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics to ensure work focuses on requirements with maximum value and are aligned with product delivery strategy
  • Participate in project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), demos/reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, and other Scrum-related meetings.
  • Perform application and services tests/validations
  • Responsible for creating system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications
  • Provide demos to internal project team, as well as to business stakeholders.
  • Works closely with Business, Quality Assurance team and developers on projects and to address production issues.
  • Demonstrate ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines that require managing multiple priorities concurrently
  • Utilize system documentation, database information, application logs and scenario testing to determine root cause of system issues.

Have general understanding or working knowledge of the following:
  • Services-oriented architecture / microservices
  • Multi-tier applications (presentation tier/services-processing tier/data management tier)
  • Enterprise and vendor API integration
  • Managing system behavior through configurable variables
  • Error handling
  • XML and JSON data structures

Qualifications/Experience:
  • Ability to write SQL queries
  • Problem solving skill - Works well under pressure and challenges, team-player, good listener, analytical, creative, approachable, etc.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership within the organization
  • Conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products
  • Work in Agile methodology
  • Writing requirements for a system
  • Writing front end mobile and/or web application requirements is a plus
  • Writing back end service requirements is a plus
  • Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs is a plus

Must Have's:Experience capturing technical requirements for information systems/applications
Experience working with APIs
Familiarity with multi-tier applications (application layer, services layer, data layer)
Nice to Have's:Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs
Experience in the financial industry
Experience working on requirements for native mobile applications

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