Senior Lead Systems Analyst

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Are you ready to grow, make a positive impact? If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

Innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence best describes the culture here at the Comptroller’s Office. We take pride in the work we do serving as Texas' accountant, tax collector, treasurer, and much more! The Comptroller’s office serves virtually every citizen in the state. As Texas’ chief tax collector, accountant, revenue estimator, treasurer and purchasing manager, the agency is responsible for writing the checks and keeping the books for the multi-billion-dollar business of state government.

Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.

General Description

ABOUT THE Division

Join the Information Technology Division team as a Senior Lead System Analyst to maintain, support and modernize mainframe processes and applications related to Tax Audit and Compliance. Perform and demonstrate your skills in an Agile environment with a dynamic team of people who are research oriented, open-minded, collaborative, and adaptable. Your day-to-day will involve analysis, design, build, test, and deployment of IT related solutions. Functional and technical support, including process automation improvement, communications with stakeholders / businesses to gather requirements and resolve critical issues is also part of the role. You would be a great fit for this role if you are self-motivated, resourceful, a good communicator, and can work well with a team.

Work Hours

Work Hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 40-hour week, Monday – Friday. Occasionally work additional hours on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, including working on-call 24 hours a day during a rotation. Hours may change based on business need.

Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e., report to office 1 day/month, 3 days/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Seven (7) years of work experience in COBOL/Mainframe development environment.
• Seven (7) years of work experience in supporting applications with a relational database.
• Seven (7) years of work experience in incident analysis, problem resolution and testing.
• Three (3) years of work experience leading small to medium size projects.
• Three (3) years of work experience using a structured Software Development Life Cycle methodology.
• Experience in guiding and mentoring staff members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, or Management Information Systems.
• Three (3) years of work experience in Natural/Mainframe development environment.
• Three (3) years of work experience with SAS, and Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Experience with upgrading, modernizing, and converting COBOL based applications into different languages.
• Experience with complex application security requirements
• Two (2) years of work experience in maintaining technology roadmaps.
• Three (3) years of work experience using Agile/Scrum and/or DevOps development methodologies.
• One (1) year of work experience in PowerBuilder Applications development and PowerScript.

Substitution

One (1) additional year of experience in Web development technologies and platforms (i.e.. Microsoft .NET, JAVA, C#) development work may substitute for thirty semester hours of educational requirement with a maximum substitution of 120 semester hours (four years).

Summary Of Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are represented of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires the incumbent to primarily perform sedentary office work; however, mobility (standing and walking) is routinely required to carry out some duties. It requires extensive computer, telephone, and client/customer contact. The job also requires normal cognitive abilities requiring the ability to learn, recall, and apply certain practices and policies. It requires the stamina to maintain attention to detail despite interruptions. Marginal or corrected visual and auditory requirements are required for reading printed materials and computer screens and communicating with internal and external customers.

Also, this position requires the incumbent must be able to ride elevator; must be able to carry laptop home for on-call duties, must be able to sit for hours at one time, must be able to work on a pc keying program changes as a repetitive function.

Employees are required to use their personal mobile phones as a part of 2 factor/multi factor authentication for accessing CPA systems securely. You will also receive critical/emergency calls/texts on your cell phone to ensure immediate communication.

In this role you will:

• Oversees/coordinates planning, requirements, systems analysis, design, solution, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of the software application. Plans and schedules highly complex systems implementations. Develops new programming guidelines, procedures, team processes and adopts new industry best practices
• Oversees cross-functional agency projects and participates in research and evaluation of enterprise level technology directions, establishing technical solutions. Conducts research on new technology trends and applies to improve software delivery, scalability, usability, and efficiencies; Maintains technology roadmap and assists with budget planning;
• Coordinates and prepares test plans/verification strategies to ensure software meets the business needs, interacting with technical and non-technical staff in the coordination of changes and system implementation.
• Performs programming, unit testing, and debugging as required.
• Mentor other developers regarding hardware, software and the use of advanced technical solutions and tools. Performs other related duties as assigned, including production support and on-call rotation.

The Comptroller’s Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed applications. The application must contain the necessary information in the work history for the applicant to qualify for the position.

An applicant must be eligible to work in the United States to be hired at the Comptroller's office and must remain eligible, without sponsorship or any assurance of financial or other assistance from this agency, during the term of their employment.