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KēSTA I.T is actively seeking a Programmer Analyst for an immediate contract engagement with our government client.
Work Location: This position is hybrid.
Job Description:
The Programmer Analyst plays a dual role encompassing both analysis and programming responsibilities. This role involves gathering and documenting precise and testable business requirements, thoroughly understanding them, and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role requires working with project teams to examine current and future business processes, data, and systems to guide requirement gathering related to system functionality.
Responsibilities:
Analyst Responsibilities:
- Document business requirements that are clear, unambiguous, and testable, following standard templates and adhering to our client’s policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Facilitate requirement gathering meetings to identify impacted business processes and document project business requirements with relevant team members and stakeholders.
- Maintain the project backlog during Agile projects, collaborating with the product owner to set priorities throughout the project duration.
- Monitor the requirements process to ensure adherence to project objectives and scope.
- Ensure stakeholder inclusion and awareness regarding data requirements and high-level information governance objectives.
- Resolve critical IT issues related to the business analyst role.
- Assess the impact of changes to project scope or business requirements and understand project-specific benefits.
- Complete, review, and approve SEM deliverables in alignment with area processes.
- Collaborate with project team members, including UI/UX designers, tech leads, solution architects, database administrators, developers, QA testers, and technical writers, to ensure understanding of requirements and system functionality.
- Work with the security team to develop system security plans (SSPs).
Programmer Responsibilities:
- Apply advanced principles, theories, techniques, and methods in web application development and design.
- Work collaboratively and independently on projects and tasks using Agile and traditional project management methodologies.
- Participate in project review meetings and workgroups, presenting gathered information to the project review board, project sponsors, and technical review board, and providing clarifications.
- Create, update, and maintain systems and IT program documentation, including system and functional specifications.
- Draft technical models capturing data element requirements and design data elements to meet application needs.
- Develop software code based on reusability, approved architecture/design, and compliance with security (SADLC) and State of Michigan standards, policies, and procedures, including ADA compliance.
- Mitigate application-level security risks and remediate vulnerabilities promptly.
- Participate in structured walkthroughs, code reviews, and stage exits, following configuration management and change management procedures.
- Support project documentation requirements by following System Engineering - SUITE standards for Agile and Traditional methodologies.
- Perform application unit, string, and integrated testing to ensure compliance with business and technical requirements.
- Develop test scripts, plans, and cases for unit, string, and integrated system testing activities.
- Analyze and document problems to determine root cause and provide root cause analysis reports.
- Develop user manuals and conduct user training sessions.
- Evaluate modification and enhancement requests for impact on existing projects and applications.
Required Skills:
· Experience developing requirements for application development in collaboration with customers.
· Experience creating functional and technical designs and documentation.
· Proficiency in developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio/Azure DevOps/C#/.NET/MVC/JavaScript.
· Experience with data access and manipulation, including queries, stored procedures, and Entity Framework.
· Experience developing secure applications and system security plans.
Nice to Have:
- Experience developing and executing test plans, suites, and cases. ADO test plans are a plus.
Available Benefits:
· Medical Benefits (Platinum level plans available)
· Work from home / Hybrid / Onsite options
· PTO
· Holiday Pay
· VTO
· 401K
· Charitable Match
· Training reimbursement
About KēSTA I.T.:
Our name says it all; KēSTA I.T. (Keys-to-I.T.) AND our people are our keys to our success!
KēSTA I.T. is a premier Utah-based technical staffing and consulting services firm. We specialize in temporary and permanent placement of Software, Hardware, Network, Cloud, CRM/ERP, Data, End-User support, Web and Executive / leadership-based positions on a full time and consulting basis.
If you're interested in a role where top performance is rewarded, personal time is valued, and excellence is demanded at every level we want to talk to you today!
Where do you want to go? We've got the keys! ~ KēSTA I.T.
