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Health Care Service Corporation

Sr System Analyst

Health Care Service Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290


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

* Bachelor Degree and 4 years Information Technology OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 6 year Information Technology experience OR 8 years Information Technology experience.

* Knowledge of application configuration

* Knowledge of Big Data Analytics - HAVeN / HADOOP/ Autonomy / Vertica

* Knowledge of Cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies

* Knowledge of Integration Technologies - Tibco/Informatica/CAS

* Knowledge of Mobile technologies - Phonegap / iOS / Android / Java / HTML5

* Knowledge of Scripting Languages - BASH / PERL / PYTHON / RUBY

* Service Oriented Architecture - SOAP / REST

* Web Technologies - HTML/CSS/Java/ASP.Net/PHP/Ruby/C#

* Rapid prototyping

* Requirements definition & management

* SDLC Methodology - Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development

* System Performance management

* Conceptual thinking

* Creative thinking

* Problem solving and analytical thinking

* Strong oral/written communication skills

Preferred Job Qualifications:

* Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related

* Ability to execute

* VSAM File:

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

* Support / Maintain database related applications:

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.