IT Business Systems Analyst II - Sheriff's Office (Finance)
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office is seeking an IT Business Systems Analyst II to fill a vacancy within their Technical Services Bureau in Riverside. This position will be in-office; no telework will be available.
The IT Business Systems Analyst II will be performing routine to moderately difficult application development, maintenance and support duties, and may have full life cycle responsibilities for small-scale systems on the Application Development team. Other duties may include performing business needs analysis and requirements gathering including documentation of business process rules, business process modeling, and identification of data elements. Additional responsibilities may include creating and/or modifying routine to moderately difficult programs and databases, designing relational databases, and/or determining specific scope and requirements in order to meet assigned objectives and solve business problems.
The Sheriff's Office desires candidates with experience in designing, developing, analyzing, implementing, and maintaining user applications, preferably with Microsoft products such as Visual Studios and Microsoft SQL database. The candidate should also be able to apply logical thinking and analytical skills to identify, diagnose, and resolve technical issues within application, reports, and database systems.
Competitive applicants will possess:
- Proficient experience working with databases, such as MS Access or SQL.
- Experience creating and designing reports with Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) or similar tools.
- Experience with front end and back end programming languages, such as .NET, JavaScript, ReactJS, C#, JSON, and/or Python.
- Proficiency in SharePoint frameworks and development tools.
- Experience with installation, testing, and migration processes and techniques.
The IT Business Systems Analyst II is distinguished from the IT Business Systems Analyst I in that the latter is the entry-level and receives initial training in the techniques and procedures essential to the duties performed. This class is further distinguished from the IT Business Systems Analyst III in that the latter requires incumbents to lead an IT staff, perform the most complex assignments, and use master-level technical and analytical skills. Advancement to the next level is obtained by competitive selection through an open recruitment.
Meet the Team!
The law enforcement professionals of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office , with a staff of over 3,600 dedicated men and women, cover the expanse of over 7,300 square miles in southern California. The Sheriff's Office is dedicated to serving the citizens of its communities with integrity, professionalism, leadership, and loyalty and believes in service above self.
- Communicates with users and other staff to design, develop, analyze, implement, and maintain departmental software application using various computer languages and/or database platforms.
- Develops enhancements and modifications to existing software programs using programming language and other tools.
- Writes application design specifications and documentation based on flow diagrams, schematics, file structures, reports, forms and menus to meet the desired output and performance requirements.
- Writes, revises, and maintains code for application development, enhancement or modification using programming logic, scripts, and documentation.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to investigate complex issues, propose solutions, and implement fixes in a timely manner.
- Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
- Utilizes strong communication skills to interact effectively with stakeholders and translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Coordinates and communicates with end users, management, staff, and vendors on project issues and status.
- Troubleshoots system issues and make recommendations for solutions; research new technology and determine best products for web applications.
- Assists in the development of documents including requests for information, requests for proposals, requests for quotes, and statements of work.
- Assists in database management related activities for a specific application.
- Modernize legacy applications to meet department needs and standards.
Experience: Two years of IT job-related experience,which included at least one year of professional level application development and design experience, preferably with the County of Riverside.
Other Requirements:
A successful Security Clearance conducted by the Sheriffs' Office is required.
Knowledge of:
- The application development lifecycle and design principles using flowcharting techniques and prototype development tools.
- Principles, methods and techniques used in designing, developing, and testing business application and websites.
- Web-based technologies and design, and development methods and languages.
- Systems integration design concepts as they relate to application design and development.
- Relational database concepts, database design, and maintenance.
- Database management systems and software as they affect application design.
- Methods and techniques of evaluating business requirements to provide technology solutions.
Ability to:
- Perform professional level application development duties, including programming, maintaining, troubleshooting and repairing various application structures and websites.
- Gather and evaluate information in order to reason logically, draw valid conclusions, take appropriate actions and/or make appropriate recommendations.
- Develop, maintain, test and troubleshoot program structures, flow charts, layouts and screens using standard technologies and tools.
- Read and interpret source code from commonly used programming languages; develop a working knowledge of new programming languages as needed.
- Develop new, or enhance existing, application of moderate complexity based on user requirements and system specifications.
- Communicate technical information to a wide variety of users.
- Troubleshoot and repair a variety of application issues using appropriate testing methods and tools.
- Plan, organize, prioritize and process work to ensure that deadlines are met.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those encountered during the course of the work.
Other Requirements
License/Certificate: Possession of a valid California Driver's License may be required.
A successful Security Clearance conducted by the Sheriffs' Department is required.
For questions regarding this recruitment
Contact Vanessa Diaz Beaird at VDBEAIRD@rivco.org with any questions regarding this recruitment.
