Technical Analyst Sr

Job Summary:

Coach Global Information Services (GIS) staff throughout the lifecycle of application development projects in regards to technical architecture. Provide technical advice, instruction, and guidance to other applications development staff in the areas of programming languages, development standards, documentation and metrics. Contribute to projects by playing a lead role in facilitating complex technical decisions. Work with GIS groups to develop enterprise architecture for project-specific requirements. Lead application development resources in enabling new application/systems development techniques.

Translate business requirements and specifications into supporting technical design, architecture, system and data models, and application prototypes. Provide for the development and guidance of team members to ensure that technical knowledge is disseminated across the project team and organization. Researches and applies a variety of technically advanced programming and documentation techniques to promote program structure and ease-of-maintenance.

Duties include:
• Consult project teams in attaining architectural direction
• Coach Technical Analysts (TA) on how to determine best system hardware and software solution
• Coach others in the principles of design, prototype and develop of technical architecture
• Lead architecture performance testing
• Coach others in design and develop application components at all layers (User Interface, Data Access, etc.)
• Guide other application developers to ensure adherence to programming techniques that promote code-reuse and ease-of-maintenance.
• Mentor application development resources with respect to supported emerging technologies
• Provide oversight, guidance and direction to the team regarding complex technical decisions
• Perform in lead technical role on complex projects requiring a high degree of technical oversight

Education Required:
A bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. If the candidate does not meet the degree requirement a combination of relevant education and experience should total the equivalent of thirteen (13) years.

Experience Required:
• Requires a minimum of 5 years of successful application development experience with a wide range of application development tools
• Requires base-level knowledge of the fundamentals of networking, operating systems and databases; certification would be beneficial
• Requires experience with systems development methodology
• Requires demonstrable awareness of new technologies and the application to business solutions
• Requires excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to manage deliverables through good time and priority management
• Requires strong interpersonal and communications skills are required to resolve business issues with stakeholders in a timely manner
• Requires experience working with project methodology and web-based technologies
• Requires the ability to contribute at a high level of competency on multiple technology platforms

Technical Competencies:
• Five or more years current experience with EAI tools and integration methodologies
• Five or more years current development experience with SAP PI 7.11 and BPM
• Extensive experience with SAP integration methodologies including IDOC,RFC, ALE,BAPI and EDI
• Must have hands-on technical experience in developing and implementing PI adapters such as ftp,http,SOAP,ODBC,JMS,JDBC, etc for both SAP and non-SAP systems
• Integration directory expertise-Communication channel setup, Object linking between sender and receiver objects, Business service and integration process setup/configuration
• Integration repository expertise-Message mapping, Interface mapping, Data type setup/import, Adapter imports/updates, Integration processes
• Experience with multiple full system lifecycle for application development required