Systems Analyst II

Santa Fe County NM; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

AD&D Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

FSA

EAP

Gym Membership

Job summary

Santa Fe County NM is seeking an IT professional to support multiple departments by understanding user software needs and aligning applications with business processes. Responsibilities include development, testing, release, deployment, and ongoing support for systems.

The role emphasizes requirements gathering, system design, database architecture, and mentoring IT staff to deliver scalable solutions. The team collaborates with various departments to implement robust, cost-effective

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, IT, or related field with relevant work experience.
• Minimum of four years in software development and support; substitution options may apply.
• Experience designing and implementing databases, reports and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Participates as a team member for the development and implementation of systems.
• Plans and directs project activities; gathers requirements or changes necessary to adapt existing work systems or processes to electronic data processing techniques.
• Designs forms, reports, and documentation.
• Assists in completing system design and associated documentation prior to systems implementation including narratives, flow charts, decision tables, input/output formats, and database design for management review.
• Designs, develops, and installs medium and large scale software applications and configures new systems and hardware.
• Assists with setup and maintenance of test environments.
• Coordinates with other IT Division members to conceptualize, design, implement, and develop solutions for complex systems and programs.
• Develops reports and presentations for senior management.

Skills

Systems analysis

Requirements gathering

Project coordination

Mentoring/Coaching

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, IT, or related IT field

Four years of relevant work experience

Education/experience substitution options

Tools

SQL development

Database design

System design tools

Job description

Primary Purpose Under the general direction of the Systems Analyst Supervisor, supports various departments in understanding user software needs. To understand stakeholder requirements that help applications align with the organization’s business process. Assists with application development, testing, release, deployment, and support.

Essential Job Functions

• Participates as a team member for the development and implementation of systems.
• Planning, directing project activities, gathering requirements or changes necessary to adapt existing work systems or processes to electronic data processing techniques.
• Designs forms, reports, and documentation.
• Assists in completing system design and associated documentation prior to systems implementation including narratives, flow charts, decision tables, input/output formats, and database design for management review.
• Designs, develops, and installs medium and large scale software applications and configures new systems and hardware.
• Defines and maintains databases and files, logical sequence of information flow, requirements for programming and the systems control parameters.
• Develops, debugs, and modifies existing applications.
• Studies present or planned systems and helps to formulate specific recommendations on the basis of cost benefits, volume analysis, personnel, etc., for management review.
• Makes formal presentations of systems recommendations to management and department personnel.
• Assists with design and configuration of database architecture for affected systems.
• Assists with database troubleshooting and optimizing, identifying database corruption, backup/restores, replication, and disaster recovery planning.
• Understands department needs and technical requirements in order to determine and implement solutions.
• Mentors and coach other members of the IT Division.
• Assists with setup and maintenance of test environments.
• Coordinates with other members of the IT Division to conceptualize, design, implement, and develop solutions for complex systems and programs.
• Participates in the identification of continuity/disaster recovery risks and mitigation plans; assists in the development and testing of disaster recovery plans.
• Develops reports and presentations for senior management.

Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of form design; systems design and planning; data processing theory and application, logic functions and systems, and application programming languages, virtual memory, remote access item sharing, multi-processing and batch oriented random access systems.
• Knowledge of teleprocessing networks and communications; of software, hardware, capabilities, and systems software; and of file structure, file access methods, mathematics and accounting.
• Ability to perform under stress and meet deadlines; to interpret and develop flow charts, specifications, object codes and diagrams; to prepare and present implementation schedules; to formulate short range programs; to design and develop user systems; to develop methods for adapting work systems to electronic data processing techniques; to maintain confidentiality; and to communicate and work effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
• Ability to understand the implementation and impact of applications on the overall systems.
• Skilled in database performance management and tuning, fault analysis and remediation, database backups, disaster recovery procedures, database security, auditing, designing database architecture and SQL development, including hardware configuration, logical and physical database layouts, database management and monitoring multiple databases.
• Skilled in operating and training others on multiple types of software programs; skilled in using various types of computer hardware and office machines.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, or other Information Technology related field; and
• Four (4) years of relevant work experience in software development and support.
• Any combination of education from an accredited college or university in a related field and/or direct experience totaling eight (8) years may substitute for the required education and experience.
• Related experience may be substituted for required education at a rate of 30 semester hours equal to one (1) year of experience.

Supplemental Information

Working Conditions

Work is performed primarily in an office setting. Work schedule may include evening, weekend, emergency call and call-back hours. Some travel may be required. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly is required to stand, walk, and sit; reach with hands or arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. Clarity of vision at short distance required. May be required to lift up to 50 pounds on occasion. May be subject to exposure to electrical hazards, CRTs and VDTs.

Conditions Of Employment

Selected candidate must submit to and pass a County paid pre-employment physical and drug/alcohol screening. Additionally, selected candidate must submit to and pass a county paid criminal background screening. Selected candidate must possess and maintain a valid New Mexico Class D Driver's License as incumbent shall be appointed to drive a County vehicle during the performance of his/her duties.

Santa Fe County is an Equal Opportunity Employer It is the policy of Santa Fe County to ensure equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of race, color, age, physical or mental handicap, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, serious medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or political affiliation

Benefits Offered

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Gym Membership

Santa Fe County is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time and part-time employees who work 20 hours per week. You will receive plan booklets, which give you more detailed information about each of these programs.

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• Health Benefits
• Leave and Retirement
• Additional Employee Benefits
• Employee Development Program