Client : Oil and Gas Sector Location : Onsite at Downtown, Calgary Type of Employment : Contract. Duration : 1 year
The Opportunity Seeking a Systems Analyst to support our oil sands business unit. Working with the Engineering Information Management team, you will play a key role in resolving technical issues, providing technical direction and ensuring timely resolution of all support tickets. Using your refined technical and functional abilities, you will be responsible for designing application components and physical data structures based on business requirements and logical data models. As a technical resource for one or more applications, you will contribute to the stewardship of all applications, interfaces, reports and data within the portfolio of the oil sands business unit.
Key Responsibilities:
Participate in all stages of the application development lifecycle including solution development, application design, testing and demonstrating the solution to the end users
Understand and make recommendations regarding how best to configure both in-house and vendor applications to better serve the customer needs
Own, maintain and implement best practices for applications, reports and integration development & deployment ensuring a stability and reliability
Develop estimates of effort for design of new, and/or modifications to existing applications and application components
Troubleshoot and repair problems that occur in the everyday use of applications and provide guidance to developers and developer analysts
Develop and implement maintenance procedures, monitor health of systems, gather system statistics, and troubleshoot reported errors and alarms
Occasional travel to field sites in northern Alberta
Other details:
Job location; Calgary, Alberta
Shift schedule: 5x2 - Monday to Friday, 8-hour shifts on premise
Skills & Qualifications:
8+ years of combined Systems Analyst and development work experience and completion of a Post-secondary degree or diploma in computer sciences
Strong computer, hardware, software, and analytical skills
Demonstrated proficiency in process modeling, data modeling, and effort/cost estimating
Experience installing, configuring, documenting, testing, training, and implementing new applications and systems
Proficiency in N-tier application analysis, design and development in the following development environments and tools.
Experience with Hexagon Engineering applications would be a benefit and will be a large focus in this role