Systems Analyst at Equitable

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

17 Jul, 26

Salary

170000.0

Posted On

18 Apr, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Systems Analysis, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Vantage, wmA, SQL, Linux, Azure DevOps, Software Development, Requirements Analysis, User Stories, Data Analysis, Technical Specifications, Testing

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company seeks a Systems Analyst for its Charlotte, NC location. Duties: • Lead the design, solutions and delivery of new products, product functionality, and other enhancements within IT as directed by Individual Retirement Tribe, and Group Retirement Tribe. • Serve as Delivery Lead working closely with Orchestrators/Product owners and frontline architects • Implement innovative solutions, value adds and partner with other IT squads/teams and outside vendors to develop end to end solutions. • Perform complex system analysis and work closely with business clients to identify core business requirements and issues to create, enhance and implement software solutions. • Understand current production state of Vantage system along with the interface systems and determine the impact of new application implementations on existing business processes. • Develop applications for high transaction data processing and scalability to support future modifications and growing volume of data applying technical expertise in Vantage or wmA platform, DSS; COBOL, JCL, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, SQL, and Linux; DB2/VSAM; and TSO, ISPF, DB2, CA-7 Endevor, File-Aid, Debugger Xpeditor, MS Office, SPUFI, and SAR among other development tools. • Interact with business clients to collect high-level business requirements and analyze requirements at the business meetings to translate specifications for IT department. • Develop detailed user stories and requirements and advocate for business clients in all phases of the complex solution development lifecycle for each of the critical stages, including: initiation, analysis, development, testing, implementation and post implementation follow up. • Analyze various interconnected legacy applications and understand the code changes/enhancements needed to support business, compliance or audit requirements, as well as production issues. • Develop Software solutions to perform data analysis and data research. • Develop solution for database objects & entities for reporting functionality. • Evaluate architectural aspects of all applications using application knowledge and product expertise. • Coordinate requirements analysis and translation of requirements into technical specifications with System Architects and business owners. • Create test data and build prototypes and proof of concepts to validate system requirements. Resolve conflicts arising due to technical deviations from the agreed user stories or requirements. • Analyze and identify in-scope and out of scope items for the project development and provide detail information in functional and technical specification documents. • Monitor code defects in Development, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production environments. • Review test plan and other deliverables; correct defects during system testing or user acceptance testing phase and communicate changes. • Coordinate with Production Support team to release the applications to business clients. Identify opportunities for improvements in whole testing process by automation. Requires a Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree Computer Engineering or related field plus at least 7 years of progressive post-Baccalaureate experience as Software Engineer or related occupation involving wmA and Vantage - Annuity Life Insurance software development. Experience must also include: MFE Express code developer, DSS, Endeavor, Azure DevOps for tracking SCRUM Ceremonies and Cadences, COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM. 40 hours/week. Salary is $154,669 - $170,000. Direct applicants only. Direct applicants only. Applicants send resume to TalentAquisition@equitable.com (Ref. job code GK1732) or search job title through https://equitable.com/about-us/careers. EOE M/F/D/V.

Responsibilities

The Systems Analyst will lead the design and delivery of new product functionality while collaborating with business clients to identify requirements and implement software solutions. They are responsible for analyzing legacy applications, developing technical specifications, and monitoring code defects across various testing and production environments.