Meet with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements;
Communicate business priorities, translate business requirements into technical requirements and identify appropriate solutions;
Carry out applications analysis, at the workgroup, department, or enterprise level;
Develop functional specifications, and identify technical solutions to automate, improve or resolve technical problems;
Facilitate regular requirement gathering and design sessions with user community and communicate expectations to the development team;
Identify business solutions that are consistent with County guidelines and security standards; prepare cost estimates of commercial and in house solutions;
Work with multiple stakeholders to assess the impact of proposed solutions, facilitate deployments, conduct user acceptance testing and minimize disruption to services;
Analyze, evaluate, and make recommendations on technology programs and procedures;
Perform fit gap analysis;
Develop and share a strong working knowledge of applications used at the department or enterprise level;
Document user manuals to describe application installation and operating procedures;
Coordinate project resources to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget;
Assist in evaluating vendors;
Determine integration requirements to ensure inter-operability across multiple platforms and technologies; and
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements :
PATTERN I
Equivalent to the completion of a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
PATTERN II
Possession of an approved information systems technology certificate, or completion of an approved information systems training course or equivalent to an Associate's Degree from an accredited college or university with 30 units of computer related coursework; AND
Two (2) years of related software development, programming, business analysis or related information technology experience.
PATTERN III
Three (3) years of experience equivalent to Technology Specialist III with Stanislaus County including a minimum of one year performing business analysis.
License or Certificate:
Some positions may be required to possess and maintain a valid California Driver's License and meet County insurability requirements.
Depending upon assignment, demonstrated technical competency and/or certification pertaining to the information technology used by the appointing department may be required.