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.
* 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.