Programmer Analyst

Top Skills & Years of Experience:
• 5+ years' experience with programming in COBOL or XGEN.
• 5+ years' experience with requirements gathering.
• 3+ years' experience with writing test cases.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• A bachelor's degree in a technical area such as mathematics, computer science, engineering, or information systems.
Daily Tasks Include:

• Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM).
• Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration.
• Redesign and approve program specifications based on test results.
• Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other DTMB entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to DTMB and agency policies, standards, or guidelines.
• Design and document IT solutions that utilize State of Michigan standard technology.
• Ensure proper change management for all requested fixes to production systems.
• Ensure proper change management for all requested changes to system designs and system architecture standards are documented.
• Approves application-wide integration, performance, system, or user acceptance test plans.
• Validate test data and test results.
• Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary.
• Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution.
• Leads post implementation validation of RFCs (application changes, infrastructure changes, etc.)
• Monitors long term IT solution traits and break fix patterns and recommends IT solutions to alleviate persistent problems.
• Serve as a liaison between DTMB and the client concerning application requests, standards, and other program and project matters.
• Actively participate in the development and implementation of assigned client agency's IT strategic direction/plan.
• Develop and maintain an effective communication plan with DTMB, vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics.
• Perform disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Evaluate and inform DTMB management and support client agency of impact and risks to existing IT solutions due to proposed legislation, enhancement requests, changes in governmental processes or procedures.