HBITS-08-15024-Systems Analyst-Expert

Knowledge Builders Inc; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowledge Builders Inc seeks a skilled Systems Analyst to analyze, design, and implement enterprise information systems. You will gather business requirements, model architectures with UML/DFD/ERD, and translate them into precise technical specs for .NET/C# developers and DBAs.

You will lead data migration planning, API integrations, and document management interfaces with IBM FileNet, ensuring data integrity across SQL Server and Oracle environments.

Qualifications

• 84 months experience with internal and external stakeholder communications and outreach, including development of presentations and other materials promoting reengineering of core business processes.
• 84 months as Lead Systems Analyst or Systems Architect directing end-to-end technical analysis and system design, using UML/DFDs/ERDs.
• 84 months experience gathering and documenting business requirements for new applications, including data modeling to enterprise schemas (SQL Server, Oracle).
• 60 months reverse-engineering legacy MS Access databases to identify data issues and write complex SQL queries for validation and troubleshooting.
• 60 months acting as a technical liaison translating business requirements into technical design artifacts (ERDs/DFDs/ETL specs).
• 36 months experience developing multi-tier .NET Framework/.NET Core apps using C# (ASP.NET MVC/Web Forms) and integrating systems via APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering and stakeholder communication for key initiatives.
• Create technical specifications, architecture maps, and models (UML, DFDs, ERDs).
• Reverse engineer legacy MS Access databases; design normalized schemas for SQL Server/Oracle.
• Translate business rules into precise technical requirements for .NET developers and DBAs.
• Design and support system integrations with Document Management Systems (IBM FileNet) and external databases.
• Plan data migrations and define ETL specifications to move legacy data to target systems.
• Write and validate complex SQL, perform SIT, and troubleshoot backend issues.

Skills

Stakeholder communication

Technical analysis

System modeling

SQL & data

ETL planning

Documentation

Education

Master's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

MS Access

SQL Server

Oracle

IBM FileNet

ER/Modeling tools

Job description

Project/Program:

Candidate will work on existing and new initiatives including but not limited to Assessment Management System, Telecommunication Company Information, Pipeline Audit System (PAS), Document and Matter Management (DMM), and 753 Enforcement support, enhancements, and developments efforts.

Job Description

Candidate will work on existing and new initiatives including but not limited to Assessment Management System, Telecommunication Company Information, Pipeline Audit System (PAS), Document and Matter Management (DMM), and 753 Enforcement support, enhancements, and developments efforts.

Day-to-day Tasks

Day-to-day tasks may include but are not limited to:

• Requirements Gathering & Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with Department of Public Service (DPS) program staff, business stakeholders, and external entities to gather, analyze, and document business requirements for key initiatives (including Assessment Management, Pipeline Audit, and 753 Enforcement). Lead business process reengineering sessions and deliver presentations on "As-Is" and "To-Be" system states.
• Technical Analysis & System Modeling: Perform end-to-end technical analysis and design for complex enterprise systems. Author highly detailed technical specifications, system architecture maps, and advanced system models including Unified Modeling Language (UML), Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), and Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs).
• Legacy Database Reverse-Engineering & Normalization: Reverse engineer legacy MS Access databases by analyzing tables, relationships, queries, forms, macros, and VBA modules. Identify data integrity issues and design normalized (up to 3NF) relational database schemas for target platforms like SQL Server and Oracle.
• Technical Liaison & Logic Translation: Act as a technical liaison between business stakeholders, software vendors, and application developers. Translate complex business rules, compliance logic, and workflows into precise technical requirements, pseudocode, database constraints, and system logic for .NET/C# application developers and DBAs.
• Integration & Document Management Design: Analyze, design, and support system integration points, web services, and APIs to facilitate secure data exchange. Coordinate integrations with enterprise Document Management Systems (such as IBM FileNet) and external agency databases.
• Data Migration & ETL Planning: Develop comprehensive data migration strategies, data mapping matrices, and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) specifications to ensure the seamless and secure transfer of legacy data into modernized target systems.
• Technical Testing & Database Validation: Write and execute complex SQL queries (including multi-table joins, subqueries, and analytical functions) to perform data validation, verify database migration accuracy, conduct system integration testing (SIT), and troubleshoot backend technical issues.

Mandatory Qualifications

Systems Analyst–

Specializes in analyzing, designing and implementing information systems. Assesses the suitability of information systems in terms of their intended outcomes and liaises with end users, software vendors and programmers in order to achieve these outcomes. Uses analysis and design techniques to solve business problems using information technology. Serves as change agent, who identifies the organizational improvements needed, designs systems to implement those changes and trains and motivates others to use the systems.

Expert

84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications

• 84 months experience with internal and external stakeholder communications and outreach, including the development of presentations and other materials that promote the rethinking of core business processes and envisioning of a reengineered environment.
• 84 months of experience as a Lead Systems Analyst or Systems Architect directing the end-to-end technical analysis, design, and optimization of complex enterprise systems. Proven expertise utilizing advanced systems modeling methodologies—including Unified Modeling Language (UML), Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), and entity-relationship modeling to conduct comprehensive As-Is/To-Be system state evaluations, perform technical gap analyses, and architect scalable, high-performance system workflows and technical specifications.
• 84 months experience working on Business Requirements Project, as lead Analyst, which involved the application of strategies to gather and document business process requirements of new applications, with logical and physical data modeling, including data normalization (up to 3NF) to transform flat-file or legacy structures into enterprise relational database schemas (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle).
• 60 Months of experience reverse-engineering legacy databases (specifically MS Access), including analyzing existing tables, relationships, queries, forms, macros, and VBA modules to identify structural anomalies, and writing complex SQL queries (including multi-table joins, subqueries, and analytical functions) to perform data validation, data profiling, and backend troubleshooting.
• 60 Months of experience acting as a technical liaison between business stakeholders, software vendors, and application developers to translate business requirements into highly technical system design artifacts, including Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), and detailed data mapping/ETL specifications.
• 48 Months of experience analyzing, designing, or supporting systems integrated with enterprise Document Management Systems (such as IBM FileNet) or enterprise relational databases (such as Oracle).
• 36 months experience as a developer developing and implementing multi-tier .Net Framework and .Net Core web applications using C# code leveraging ASP.Net patterns: Web Forms and Model-View-Controller (MVC); and designing and implementing system integration points, web services, or APIs to facilitate data exchange.
• Masters Degree in a computer or technology related field.

We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other protected basis.