Sr. Applications Analyst (Lawson) LOC;Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
- Installs, supports and maintains Lawson S3 System Foundation including WebSphere, Tivoli, SharePoint/Mingle, LandMark, Infor Process Automation, BSI and MasterTax.
- Provide operational support including after hours and on-call for system maintenance and operations.
- Participates in the project planning process with clients, business analysts and team members.
- Evaluates and provides recommendations for application packages.
- Analyzes existing system foundation applications to identify weaknesses and develop improvement opportunities.
- Identifies system requirements.
- Develops conversion and migration designs. Assists in final deployment of code to appropriate server.
- Conducts and/or oversees unit testing for system foundation modules to ensure application meets specifications.
- Implements integration plans. Incorporates plans into integration testing process.
- Documents functions and changes to new or modified modules, test activities/results as well as other areas such as error handling and backup/recovery procedures.
- Inspects, monitors and provides approvals for making modules production ready.
- Promotes an understanding of IT roles, processes and activities to the business units. Supports and participates in the formal reporting of project status.
- Responsible for adhering to applications security procedures, change control guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley IT and business requirements.
- Develops project work plans with revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Effectively applies methodology and enforces project standards
- Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
- Aides in production support activities
Minimum Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelora??s degree required.
- 4 or more years of relevant technical or business work experience
- Working knowledge of business operations and systems requirements processes preferred
- Must have strong finance and/or HR business process background
- Must have Lawson S3 System Foundation experience
- Working knowledge of Unix operating system and Unix scripting
- Must have exceptional communication skills