Granite Engineer

Job Description

We have a position for a Granite Engineer with one of our clients in Atlanta, GA for an initial contract duration of 5 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

BUSTCH: Consults with internal customers and external vendors to capture agreed-upon business objectives and processes. Performs research and fact-finding to determine business requirements and specifications for development of end-user programs, operational procedures and support and systems. Communicates these processes and their implications to technical and non-technical contributors to ensure that applications accurately meet business users' goals. May produce online and hard copy documentation and training materials for software applications and develop and implement a documentation strategy leveraging new technologies to provide more targeted information more efficiently to users. May manage software applications training program for user personnel. At higher levels, directs IT research initiatives moving from the business concept stage through initiative direction, project definition, project execution, and project evaluation, up to and including operational support phase. Maintains, integrates, and communicates knowledge of industry directions and IT trends.

• Conducts business requirements reviews and formulates logical statements of business requirements; may gather business requirements
• Analyzes marketplace, industry, company, technology trends, best practices, vendor products, and services, etc.;
• Uses system process analysis tools and methods to analyze and document business processes and metrics and identify improvement opportunities to streamline and automate processes and functions; identifies/documents how applications/systems interact to support business processes;
• Produces reports, analyzes data and develops business cases.
• Monitors data and system trends for inconsistencies and resolves as appropriate..
• Develops selection evaluation criteria based on identified product requirements for tasks and processes and/or prepares specifications from which programs will be written;
• Negotiates commitments by facilitating the communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation;
• Develops functional designs; identifies risks and benefits of alternate designs; calculates costs/benefits of potential actions or solutions to establish their viability/ROI; assesses project impact of system changes on users and internal and external customers and stakeholders;
• Participates in software testing and debugging plans to ensure functionality and quality; creates detailed test plans and scripts based on functional requirements and executes test scripts using testing tools;
• Writes user documentation based on functional requirements;
• Creates and delivers training and development programs to all levels of IT professionals and end-users; May also design training programs, classes, workshops, computer-based training, and on-line help; Delivers training to a variety of audiences which demonstrates an understanding and application of adult learning principles; Develops and administers tools to measure the results of efforts; documents the value of services provided
• At higher levels, leads others in functional design process, advises of tools to use in testing/training and new methodologies, and develops long-term strategy for functional design initiatives; develops strategic means to address common issues.
• At higher levels, may provide functional guidance, advice, and/or training to less experienced business systems analysts. Researches, collects, and disseminates information on emerging technologies and key learning throughout Client; Evaluates the portfolio of projects within, and external to, the customer group to fully leverage data, systems, technology, and resources;
• May determine the costs and benefits of strategic initiatives, using incumbent business, technology, and project life cycle experience;
• Provides consultative guidance and implement organizational improvement programs
• Interacts with users and staff to evaluate possible implementation of new technology for the Client enterprise; Documents, maintains, and communicates a knowledge base in support of industry directions and key IT trends; Develops documentation standards and develops templates; provides guidance and support in the storage and retrieval of documents.