Associate Cobol Technical Analyst

Highmark Health • Washington, NV

2d • $58,100 - $90,000 • Remote

About The Position

This role supports technical aspects of the Mainframe Cobol application product life cycle within one or more application components. Working with customers and senior team members, the analyst helps define capability needs, gather project specifications, prepare business cases and cost-sheet analyses, translate high-level business needs into detailed requirements, and analyze data for business problems, trends, and process-improvement opportunities. The role also supports test-case creation and execution, root-cause analysis, corrective-action planning, verification of customer needs, and quality delivery, as well as identification, documentation, and resolution of risks, defects, and issues. The analyst begins building organizational and platform knowledge in one or more disciplines and must understand how changes affect end systems across multiple systems. Technical domains may include infrastructure, networking and telecommunications, release management, and application or platform support.

The analyst contributes to technology delivery projects across their lifecycle, helping maintain business vision, requirements, client personalization, and user-interface design deliverables. They support requirements testing and defect management, help ensure compliance and approvals, and communicate with team members, customers, partners, and management. The position is remote-based, with no physical work site required. It includes occasional teaching or training and specified lifting demands.

Requirements

• Information Systems or Technology experience.
• Basic analytical skills.
• Basic problem-solving skills.
• Basic communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Information Systems, or a related field, or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

• Cobol experience.
• Mainframe experience.
• Health insurance or healthcare industry experience.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Information Systems, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior team members, customers, Technical Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Capability Managers to capture capability needs and help drive quality business solutions.
• Assist in creating and maintaining deliverables such as business vision, requirements, client personalization, and user-interface design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on technology development projects across the technology delivery lifecycle.
• Support requirements testing, including testing plans, scenarios, documentation, and defect management; analyze results in relation to customer impacts.
• Ensure compliance with required standards and obtain necessary approvals throughout the project lifecycle.
• Communicate with team members, customers, partners, and management; assist with or conduct requirements walkthroughs and sprint reviews, report project status, enable vendor solutions, and provide accurate documentation.
• Support gathering project specifications, translating business needs into detailed requirements, analyzing data, creating and executing test cases, conducting root-cause analysis, and verifying delivery of customer needs.
• Identify, document, and help resolve risks, defects, and issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level