Programmer Analyst

Title: Programmer Analyst

Location: Dimondale, MI (Hybrid)

Duration: 1 year with extension possible

• Document business requirements that are clear, unambiguous, testable, and satisfy the business need in accordance with standard templates and adherence to DTMB and Treasury policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Facilitate requirement gathering meetings to identify impacted business processes and document the project business requirements. Attendees include relevant project team members and stakeholders as identified in the Communication Plan.
• Adhere to the project schedule by developing and maintaining the project backlog during Agile projects and working with the product owner to set priority throughout the duration of project.
• Understand project scope and actively monitoring requirements process to maintain adherence to the objectives set for the project.
• Understand high-level information governance objectives and ensuring appropriate Stakeholder inclusion and/or awareness regarding data requirements.
• Resolution of critical IT issues as it pertains to the BA role.
• Understand project specific benefits and related impact of changes to project scope or business requirements.
• Ensure SEM deliverables for the project that are a responsibility of the BA are completed, reviewed, and approved in alignment with area processes.
• Work directly with project team including user interface/user experience (UI/UX) designers, tech leads, solution architects, database administrators, developers, QA testers, and technical writers to ensure understanding of the requirements, functionality, size, and scalability of the IT solution.
• Work with security team to develop system security plans (SSPs).

• Possess knowledge and experience of advanced principles, theories, techniques, and methods in the development and design of web applications.
• Work as a team and individually on projects and tasks using Agile and/or traditional project management methodologies.
• Participate in project review meetings and project workgroups.
• Presents the information gathered to the Project Review Board and/or Project Sponsors during project review meetings, project workgroups and to the Technical Review Board providing clarification and answers to questions.
• Create, update, and maintain systems and IT programs documentation, including but not limited to system and functional specifications.
• Draft technical models that capture requirements of data elements, and design data elements to best meet application needs.
• Design and develop software code based on reusability, approved architecture/design, and in compliance with security (SADLC) and other applicable State of Michigan standards, policies, and procedures including Americans with Disabilities (ADA) compliance.
• Mitigate application-level security risks, and remediate vulnerabilities as soon as identified.
• Participate and provide input for structured walk throughs, code reviews, and stage exits.
• Strictly follow configuration management procedures as defined by the development team.
• Follow change management procedures as defined by State of Michigan Center for Excellence and provide input in execute change management.
• Support project documentation requirements by following System Engineering - SUITE standards for Agile and Traditional methodologies as applicable.
• Perform application unit, string, and integrated testing to ensure compliance with the business and technical requirements.
• Develop system/module level test scripts, test plans, and test cases required to support the execution of unit, string, and integrated system testing activities.
• Analyze and document identified problems to determine root cause and provide root cause analysis reports.
• Develop user manuals and conduct training for users.
• Evaluate requests for modifications and enhancements for impact on existing project and applications.

• Experience working directly with customers to develop requirements for application development.
• Experience creating functional and technical designs and documentation
• Experience developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, C# and other relevant technologies.
• Expertise in modern application design and development using .NET, React UI, MVC, Micro Services or similar
• Experience with data access and manipulation including queries, stored procedures, Entity Framework.
• Experience developing secure applications and system security plans.
• Experience developing and executing test plans/suites/cases. Testing using Azure DevOps and/or test automation using TestComplete or similar are a plus.