Technical Data Analyst

Hybrid role working in Reston, VA 2 days a week

Long term Contract

Top 3 must have skills:

• Experience analyzing multi-tier applications, specifying systems requirements

• Mapping data between systems

• Investigating capabilities of enterprise and vendor APIs

Job Description:

• Collaborates with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product

• Leverages available documentation and exercises test versions of applications and APIs to understand existing functionality to inform replat forming and enhancement opportunities

• Investigates enterprise and vendor APIs to determine whether necessary data is available to support intended system capabilities

• Maps data between interfacing systems

• Assists lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics to ensure work focuses on requirements with maximum value and are aligned with product delivery strategy

• Participates in project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), demos/reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Performs application and services tests.

• Responsible for creating system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications.

• Provides demos to internal project team, as well as to business stakeholders.

• Works closely with Business, Quality Assurance team and developers on projects and to address production issues.

• Demonstrates ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines that require managing multiple priorities concurrently

• Utilizes system documentation, database information, application logs and scenario testing to determine root cause of system issues.

Have in-depth understanding or working knowledge of the following:

• Services-Oriented Architecture / Microservices

• Multi-tier applications (presentation tier/services-processing tier/data management tier)

• Enterprise and vendor API integration

• Managing system behavior through configurable variables

• Error handling

• XML and JSON data structures

Qualifications/Experience:

• Ability to write SQL queries

• Problem solving skill – Works well under pressure and challenges, team-player, good listener, analytical, creative, approachable, etc.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership within the organization

• Conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products

• Work in Agile methodology

• Writing requirements for a system

• Writing mobile and/or web application requirements is a plus

• Writing mobile service and/or web service requirements is a plus

• Proficiency with API access tools such as Postman and SoapUI is a plus

Top desired skills:

• Experience with mobile applications

• Using SoapUI and/or Postman to analyze APIs