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Information Systems Analyst

(Posted on 4/25/2017)

Position requirements:

Location:

  • This position is located at the Alexandria, Virginia office. The work must be performed onsite at this location.

CLASSIFICATION

  • Full-time

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management or a related field.

Experience:

  • At least three years’ experience in software analysis.
  • Experience in designing, using and maintaining web based and client server application systems is preferred.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

Possesses excellent oral and written communication and negotiating skills. Able to functionally decompose large tasks into small steps. Advanced proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications. Able to separate problems into components, and recognize underlying patterns. Demonstrated orientation to end-user thinking. Self-motivated individual who is organized, responsible, cost conscious, resourceful and responsive.

  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers
  • Knowledge of the software development life cycle is a plus
  • Knowledge and experience of working in an agile environment is a plus
    • Quickly grasps high-level requirements from a project kick off meeting.
    • Able to drive work break down of these requirements in the form of user stories
    • Able to discern implicit requirements espoused by business sponsors, capture them and translate them into user stories
    • Skilled in asking the right question that lead to capturing relevant requirements (the ability to go beyond the obvious)
    • Skilled at envisioning multiple real-life scenarios given a high level requirement
    • Understands how to iteratively gather requirements that are needed for a given sprint and capture the details of a user story to a level of granularity (more detail than one captured during project kick off meeting) that is appropriate for programmers to start working on them.
    • Ability to do mockup using Visio or other tools in an effort to effectively communicate requirement to both business and the development team.
    • Mindset of wanting to learn more and acquire skills on an ongoing basis both from peers and experts in the field is a plus.
  • Hands-on technical experience is a plus
Learn more about this opening by downloading the full Information Systems Analyst Job Description.