What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Analyst position at CoBank?
Benefits Overview
A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. When you choose a career with CoBank, you make a difference by standing for something that matters. In order to be the best, we hire the best!
Remarkable Benefits offered by CoBank
- Careers with a purpose- stand for something!
- Competitive Compensation & Incentive
- Hybrid work model – flexible arrangements for most positions
- Benefits Packages, including: Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
- CoBank University robust curriculum –associate training and development, including higher education tuition reimbursement
- Outstanding 401k – up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
- Time-Off Packages – Vacation 15 days, 10 Paid Sick Days, and 10 Paid Holidays
- Community Impact – United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
- Associate Resource Groups – creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
- Recognize a fellow associate with “GEM” awards, including a monetary value
Job Description
Participates in the gathering and analysis of business, data and processing requirements, working with business architects, subject matter experts and business analysts on Information Technology (IT) applications. Acts as an interface between the technical team and the business or information technology application users. May facilitate process improvement efforts, data collection and analysis of information and processes that impact achievement of financial, operational, compliance, customer satisfaction and other enterprise goals.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Gathers, analyzes, validates and documents business requirements for IT applications; participates in the determination of functionality required to meet requirements; and articulates integration required for the existing environment.
- Serves as a liaison between the IT developer team and internal clients.
- Assists in the translation of detailed and complex business requirements into technical requirements.
- Determines appropriate analysis tasks and activities; provides realistic level of effort estimates to project manager.
- Queries and analyzes data, and assists in data profiling activities.
- Assist with application patching and maintenance; create, test and execute database scripts for application support use cases.
- Conducts analyses and ad-hoc queries for end user requests
- Provides technical support for end users.
- Acquires and maintains an understanding of CoBank’s IT processes, and develops an expertise in workflows and outputs.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a computer science, information systems, or relevant discipline.
- Seven (7) or more years of relevant experience in information technology, preferably in the banking or financial services industry; or appropriate combination of education and experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in Scrum preferred.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Strong understanding of technology components, methodologies and infrastructure requirements supporting the implementation of tightly integrated information technology solutions.
- Proficient with SQL Server and related query tools.
- Understanding of basic shell scripting.
- Prior experience with content management system.
- Understanding of agile methodologies.
- Availability for off-hours support.
- Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) or similar code versioning and devops pipeline.
- Basic understanding of application runtime environments and infrastructure such as JBoss, WebSphere, OpenShift.
- Experience in financial services, lending/leasing business, agribusiness, communications and energy companies, international, and/or cooperatives preferred.
- Proven record of success in eliciting and creating detailed complex business requirements.
- Able to create both current and future state diagrams and documentation.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and documenting technical requirements in custom and packaged environments.
- Excellent organizational skills and detail orientation, with demonstrated ability to prioritize and multi-task under tight time frames and with competing priorities.
- Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word and Excel), and applicable business software applications.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Compensation Information
- Estimated Base Salary Range: $100,000-$125,000
- Target short-term incentive opportunity: 15%
About CoBank
CoBank stands strong as a $135 billion enterprise dedicated to the financial needs of rural America. As a national cooperative bank and a proud member of the Farm Credit System it is our mission to serve as a relevant and dependable provider of credit and other value-added financial services. From our headquarters in Denver, Colorado and our regional banking centers across the US, CoBank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states.
CoBank will not sponsor a work visa (e.g. H1B, etc.) to fill this position.CoBank is an Equal Opportunity Employer
CoBank requires all newly hired associates to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and new hires will be asked to register their proof of vaccination. Any offer of employment will be conditioned upon an applicant supplying proof of vaccination against COVID-19; provided, however that CoBank may provide a reasonable accommodation for an applicant’s known disability or sincerely held religious belief.
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Salary : $100,000 - $125,000
