Senior System Analyst

Akkodis is currently searching for a full time Systems Analyst for a long-term project within the Halifax area. This work may be completed remotely. However, consultants must be prepared to work at the client’s Halifax office location as required. Job Summary:

• The project is a Five-Year IT Strategic plan that includes implementing strategic IT changes within the organization. The Systems Analyst (SA) will join a team of technical and business analyst resources within the Project Management Office (PMO) and is expected to play a hands-on role working on projects with various stakeholders.
• Providing a blend of analytical skills, technical expertise, and effective communication to ensure successful implementation of software systems.
• As the IT liaison, providing a diverse set of business and technical analytical skills to effectively bridge the gap between business needs and IT solutions.
• Identifying and recommending new or improved business processes and system upgrades to ensure objectives and intended benefits are realized.
• Becoming a Subject Matter Expert on implemented vendor software.
• Actively participate in the Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) process.

• Requirements Definition: working with business units to elicit, document and prioritize business and system requirements.
• Process & System Documentation: producing process and system documentation.
• Application Expertise: becoming an expert on vendor applications involved inassigned projects (end user and technical aspects of applications).
• System Configuration: working with required vendor and resources to ensure configuration settings, parameters, and requirements for a process and/or system are understood, documented, and implemented to ensure they meet intended operational and functional requirements.
• Data Migration: supporting data migration tasks such as defining scope of migration, identifying data sources, field mapping, assessing data quality, data cleansing, evaluating risks, and creating any required mitigation plans.
• Report Discovery & Development: working with vendor software reporting capabilities (out-of-box and ad-hoc) and with client’s data/reporting resources to ensure business reporting requirements are delivered.
• Systems Integration: supporting vendor and client technical resources on systems integration design, testing, and implementation.

• Minimum 5 years system analysis experience in elicitation and document of requirements using task and workflow analysis; Stakeholder Management to analyze information needs, functional and non-functional requirements and process improvements; and supporting the change management effort
• Utility and/or Public Sector industry experience with several clients.
• Strong analytical skills to translate business needs into technical requirements, effective communication and collaboration with IT and subject matter experts, and involvement in the QA process in cloud or on-premises environments.
• Bachelor's degree in business, IT/Computer Science or related discipline from a recognized university/ institution or equivalent experience is desired; certification in data analysis, SQL, MS Fabric is considered an asset
• SAFe ®, PMIDASM ™, or CSM is considered an asset; and Prosci CMP® is considered an asset.
• Previous experience with implementing Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions is considered an asset.