Dawn InfoTek Inc. is a professional IT consulting firm that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms, and government organizations. We are committed to delivering innovative technology solutions and connecting top-tier IT talent with leading organizations.
We are currently seeking a highly skilled Intermediate System Analyst to join our dynamic team and support one of our government clients.
Location: Downtown Toronto, ON (5 days onsite)
Position Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
- Provides specialized technical expertise in the overall analysis of the design and architecture of systems solutions.
- Ability to evaluate recommendations and ensures all recommended solutions for improvement are congruent with the project goals and objectives
- Identifies short and long-term project goals/objectives, and as a senior technical expert, defines and identifies program and service delivery requirements in support of the development and/or acquisition of client applications
- Leads the analysis, development and documentation of design and architecture of systems solutions.
- Leads the development of testing, integration and implementation of systems solutions into the clients’ applications
- Guides the feasibility studies and cost effective analyses of proposed client I&IT initiatives, ensures all studies and analyses are documented
- Leads the technical aspects of projects related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This includes planning, scheduling and estimating resources, providing technical expertise, co-ordination, monitoring progress and providing management with project status updates
- Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, translating business documents into technical specifications
- Experience leading development/support teams supporting multi-dimensional and relational databases and their applications for effective planning, budgeting, strategizing and forecasting procedures
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex applications utilizing relational and multi-dimensional databases
- Ability to provide implementation and post implementation support as required
- Oversees the research and evaluation of the technical components in the acquisition of software, hardware, technology, systems and products
- Recommends and directs the measurement and improvement of tools, techniques, standards and performance criteria to control the quality of application development initiatives
- Provides coaching and direction to junior analysts throughout the project, related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle
Required Skills:
Systems Analysis Experience
- 5+ years of System Analysis and Design experience, preferably in a large, complex business environment
- Expert knowledge in reverse engineering Physical Data Models creating Entity
- Relationship Models (ERD) and Metadata Reports
- Demonstrated experience within all project cycles from Analysis, Design to
- Development, Testing and Implementation
- Knowledge and experience related to TRA (Threat, Risk, Assessment) process and prepare appropriate documents
- Experience preparing architecture artifacts, including TRA artifacts
Business, Testing & Integration Experience
- 5+ years of Business Analysis experience including running JAD sessions, UAT and gathering requirements
- 5+ years of system testing, integration testing experience
- Demonstrated experience with system Integration experience including ability to understand different systems and pick up new technologies quickly
- Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients
- Proven experience with requirement elicitation technics such as User interviews, Workshops, JAD facilitation and interpretation of business needs into system design requirements.
- Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans
Public Sector experience is a plus
