Application Analyst - Intermediate (HYBRID) JP1050

Pathlion; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathlion seeks an experienced System Analyst to support the Gas Royalty in Kind (GRIK) program within the Oil and Gas regulatory domain. The role involves coding with C, PowerBuilder and InfoMaker, and working closely with business units to translate requirements into robust solutions.

The ideal candidate will analyze user needs, design scalable database structures, and ensure high-performance, available systems on Solaris platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience as an application system analyst with C, PowerBuilder and Sybase.
• Proven ability to gather requirements and work with business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Solaris 11 platform and database design is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver applications programming and analysis tasks within a system development process.
• Liaise with business units to ensure solutions meet needs and align to architecture.
• Define non-functional requirements such as performance and availability.
• Produce technical designs, database structure and application architecture.
• Conduct testing and ensure changes are released in a controlled manner.
• Coordinate with ministry clients and analysts during testing and delivery.
• Provide support, maintenance and enhancements for applications.

Skills

System analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder liaison

Tools

C

PowerBuilder

InfoMaker

Sybase SQL

Job description

Project Name:

Gas Royalty in Kind (GRIK)

Scope:

Project Overview

Technology and Innovation (TI) now supports the Oil and Gas Royalty division of Energy and Minerals. Technology and Innovations Ministry requires the services of an experienced C, PowerBuilder and Sybase application system analyst, that preferably has experience with Oil and Gas regulation.

The System Analyst will be assigned requirements gathering & programming duties for application projects and enhancement tasks. The individual will also work closely with application development and maintenance teams. In addition, the system analyst will work directly with subject matter experts in the business areas for application testing and remediation to ensure code functions as per specification. This system analyst will be assigned to work on implementation of the Gas Royalty in Kind (GRIK) program and maintenance projects.

Duties

• Deliver applications programming and analysis tasks as part of a system development process as well as provide application support, maintenance and enhancements. A System Analyst applies a broad knowledge of various technical areas to foresee and rectify certain problem areas within technology or with a mix of technologies, but the focus is to ensure a certain business/functional use case is solved with the help of technology.


• Liaise with business units and program areas to ensure solutions meet current and strategic ministry needs.


• Align development team to follow Application Architecture.


• Write code for the most complex Functional and Technical Designs with minimal defects.


• Define non-functional requirements (Performance, Availability, Portability, Recovery / Recoverability etc.).


• Assess technical impacts up front and recommend better ways of designing applications to ease the development.


• Produce Technical Design, Database structure and Application Architecture for a new average to high complex application.


• Seek the best technical design solution that respects budget and timeline. Advocate the re-use of existing components/frameworks.


• Innovate in providing better efficient ways to design applications.


• Review Technical Designs from other developers and recommend optimization if necessary.


• Evaluate, with assistance, the quality of the product being delivered, and take action to improve situations.


• Assist/Execute performance/penetration tests and troubleshoot issues at the system level.


• Isolate root cause of issues and provide solution options/recommendations.


• Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work, as required.


• Contribute to the creation of the Application Lifecycle Planning.


• Identify and coordinate release schedules.


• Identify service requests and priorities with customers.


• Ensure planned releases remain on schedule.

Deliverable Details:

Projects: Gas Royalty in Kind (GRIK)

• Scope of services:


• Write application code using C, PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, Sybase SQL for the Solaris 11 platform with the ability to create both desktop and web-based interfaces


• Coordinate with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals clients, analysts and/or interfaced systems clients and team members during testing, providing systems support and operational assistance.


• Design and implement SQL databases.


• Liaise with business users to collect and analyze business and user requirements.


• Document business processes and applications.


• Produce systems design manuals.


• Produce technical and reference manuals.


• Conduct unit testing, system testing and integration testing.


• Ensure all application changes are developed, tested and implemented in a well-controlled manner using software release strategy.