What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr System Analyst position at Health Care Service Corporation?
Job Description
- Develop detailed technical specifications and designs for waterfall / XP projects / system enhancements.
- Provide application domain knowledge to the ADM team.
- Manage unstable applications / systems by helping to resolve incidents and issues.
- Support infrastructure first build with Solution Architects and Infrastructure Engineers.
- Review, guide, troubleshoot and resolve contentious issues escalated during implementation.
- Evaluate integration of SaaS / COTS packages to current environment.
- Develop operating procedures and user manuals for transition into routine operations.
- Enable building of knowledge databases for technology, solutions and domain areas.
- Work with architecture, application services, infrastructure, release management and other relevant stakeholders to enable a smooth deployment.
- Continuously work on capturing and transferring tacit knowledge to vendors and knowledge management systems.
- Maintain the common I / O access subsystem (database access layer) used to access these files.
- Maintain the in-house developed utilities that assist in managing the databases and their integrity.
- Manage the underlying test platforms and files used by developers maintaining these applications
- Partner with system analysts and solution engineers to translate business and technical requirements into detailed designs that are secure, robust, scalable and extensible.
- Manage VSAM performance thru proper design and buffering, key design.
- Administer and use the CICS VR forward recovery utility (enterprise).
- Write or review responses to audit requests. SDO severity and authorization reports.
- CICS ABEND reporting.
- Production and Test problem determination and debugging
- Capacity planning
- Testing processes for select system software upgrades
Required Job Qualifications
Preferred Job Qualifications :
o Backup and Restore
o Forward Recovery
o Conversions for filler expansion, key restructuring etc
o Reorganizations and free space tuning
o Naming convention standards
o Special loads and reports or extract
o Logstream management and design
o Master file copybook creation and copybook change management
o Disaster Recovery support
o Data flow and file design and access key design consulting
o Creation and initialization of test databases
o Test copies of production files
o Ad hoc record fixes
o Batch tuning consultation
o CICS memory and CICS topology
o CICS VR administration
o Blue Chip Term Up (GTUP) and Terminal Operator File (GTOF) transactions
o Record locking "Exclusive Control" process
o Early morning production file availability transaction (EAIN)
o Key Range Verify program to ensure the integrity of partitioned files.
o SDO authorization reports. Audit requests and reports.
