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BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD-HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORP Sr Systems Analyst in Richardson, Texas
NAME OF EMPLOYER: Health Care Service Corporation
POSITION TITLE: Sr Systems Analyst
POSITION LOCATION: 1001 E. Lookout Drive, Richardson, TX 75082
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Design enhancements and new business applications and/or information systems solutions through integration of technical and business requirements. Serve as Technical Designer to identify best solution and resulting technical specifications within limits of code environment. Link Business Analyst needs and Architect definition to technical solutions. Ensure the integrity, security, scalability, and daily availability and of the databases supporting the Illinois and Texas Blue Chip and IRIS CICS applications through proactive monitoring and management activities. 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 the 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 through 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. Test processes for select system software upgrades. Telecommuting: This is a Flex role (3 days in office / 2 days remote).
REQUIREMENTS:
This position requires a Bachelors degree, or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field plus 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Data Analyst, or related occupation. Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with: (1) Scripting Languages -BASH / PERL / PYTHON / RUBY; (2) SDLC Methodology - Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development; (3) Rapid prototyping; (4) Scrum / Iterative Development; and (5) System Performance management.
RATE OF PAY: $ 127,878 - $ 164,200 per year
To learn more about available benefits, please click https://careers.hcsc.com/totalrewards.
To apply: email resume to hrciapp@bcbsil.com and reference R0041703