Application Analyst - Intermediate (HYBRID) JP1055

Pathlion; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathlion is seeking an experienced System Analyst to support Bitumen Royalty in Kind (BRIK) programs within Technology and Innovation. The role focuses on translating requirements into robust C# applications, coordinating with ministry clients, and maintaining MS-SQL databases.

You will work with application development and maintenance teams, collaborate with SMEs, and ensure tests and deployments follow a controlled release process. Uplift in oil sands regulatory projects expected.

Qualifications

• Experience gathering requirements from business units and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical specifications.
• Experience with system analysis and design methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver applications programming and analysis tasks within a system development lifecycle.
• Liaise with business units to ensure solutions meet needs and are aligned with architecture.
• Design and implement MS-SQL databases and data structures.
• Collaborate with development teams and subject matter experts during testing and remediation.
• Produce technical design documents and manuals.
• Conduct unit, system, and integration testing and ensure controlled releases.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder liaison

System analysis

Tools

C#

Visual Studio

MS-SQL

Job description

Project Name:

Bitumen Royalty in Kind (BRIK)

Scope:

Project Overview

Technology and Innovation (TI) now supports Oil sand Operations of Energy and Minerals. Technology and Innovations Ministry requires the services of an experienced C#, Visual Studio and MS-SQL application system analyst, that preferably has experience with Oil Sands Regulations.

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 Bitumen Royalty in Kind (BRIK) 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:

Bitumen Royalty in Kind (BRIK)

Scope of services:

• Write application code using C#, Visual Studio


• 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 MS-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