Stanford University Education/EdTech

IT Systems Analyst

Stanford, CA In person Full-time
  • Capture and model/map business requirements, and work with business
  • partners to understand directions and priorities to assure the delivery
  • of information technology solutions.

Core Duties

  • Understand business processes and translate into system
  • solutions.
  • Assist with feasibility studies of enhancement requests,
  • identifying options and recommending an IT solution.
  • Assist the project manager in developing project scope, cost,
  • resources, impact and schedule.
  • Create business requirements, including business rules, quality
  • attributes, performance goals, external interfaces and
  • constraints.
  • Collaborate with the business partners and test team to create
  • and execute system test plans, user-acceptance testing and
  • rollout.
  • Assist the development team to develop technical
  • specifications.
  • Perform production support activities, including triaging issues,
  • evaluating patches and fixes, assessing impact, and implementing
  • solution.
  • Conduct in-depth analysis to solve problems, identifying gaps and
  • issues that minimize system modification and maintenance; make
  • recommendations, including discovering new approaches or
  • applications.
  • Design and document modules and components and how they will
  • interface with each other.
  • Develop functional specifications to ensure compliance with
  • system development lifecycle methods.

Minimum Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience or

combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Demonstrated experience with both process and data
  • modeling.
  • Demonstrated experience with fit/gap analysis.
  • Understanding of relational database concepts.
  • Strong understanding of the components of web
  • applications.
  • Strong understanding of the software development life
  • cycle.
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with minimum
  • direction.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to establish effective, ongoing relationships with
  • clients, staff and management.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and work under
  • pressure in high stress situations.
  • Demonstrated ability to program or script.

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