Technical Analyst

Apex Systems; Merrifield, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

HSA health savings account

EAP with counseling

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems in Merrifield, VA, is seeking an entry to mid-level Technical Analyst to support web, mobile, chat, and voice solutions in a hybrid role. The candidate will collaborate with business analysts, solution architects, developers, and testers to translate business needs into technical system requirements and define technical specifications for the product.

The role requires 8+ years of IT experience, API work, and familiarity with multi-tier architectures.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant IT experience.
• Experience capturing technical requirements for information systems or applications.
• Experience working with APIs.
• Familiarity with multi-tier applications (application layer, services layer, data layer).
• Experience conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products.
• Experience working in an Agile methodology.
• Experience writing requirements for a system.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with product ownership to translate business needs into technical system requirements.
• Identify requirement gaps and issues to product ownership.
• Ensure non-happy path scenarios are considered and handled.
• Advocate for maintainable, reusable solutions.
• Map data between interfacing systems.
• Assist lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and daily stand-ups.
• Perform application and services tests and validations.
• Create system requirement documentation and interface specifications.
• Provide demonstrations to the internal project team and stakeholders.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Agile methodologies

API understanding

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

SQL

Job description

Technical Analyst

Location: Merrifield, Virginia (Hybrid)

Role Overview

This entry to mid-level Technical Analyst position supports the development of web, mobile, chat, and voice solutions. The role involves collaborating with business analysts, solution architects, developers, and testers to assess needs and define technical system requirements. The successful candidate will work to translate business needs into the technical system requirements of the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Assume leadership of collaboration with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product.
• Proactively identify requirement gaps and issues to product ownership.
• Ensure non-happy path scenarios are considered and handled.
• Advocate for solutions that consider ease of maintenance and component reuse opportunities.
• Leverage documentation and test versions of applications and APIs to inform enhancement opportunities.
• Investigate enterprise and vendor APIs to determine data availability.
• Map data between interfacing systems.
• Assist lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics.
• Participate in all Scrum-related meetings, including project planning, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups.
• Perform application and services tests and validations.
• Create system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications.
• Provide demonstrations to the internal project team and business stakeholders.
• Work closely with Business, Quality Assurance, and development teams on projects and to address production issues.
• Utilize system documentation, database information, application logs, and scenario testing to determine the root cause of system issues.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 8 or more years of relevant information technology experience.
• Experience capturing technical requirements for information systems or applications.
• Experience working with APIs.
• Familiarity with multi-tier applications (application layer, services layer, data layer).
• Experience conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products.
• Experience working in an Agile methodology.
• Experience writing requirements for a system.

Technical Skills

• General understanding or working knowledge of services-oriented architecture/microservices.
• Knowledge of enterprise and vendor API integration.
• Understanding of managing system behavior through configurable variables.
• Knowledge of error handling, XML, and JSON data structures.
• Ability to write SQL queries.

Professional Skills

• Problem-solving skills and ability to work well under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing front-end mobile and/or web application requirements.
• Experience writing back-end service requirements.
• Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs.
• Experience in the financial industry.
• Experience working on requirements for native mobile applications.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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