Senior Technical Analyst - Loyalty Systems

Position: Sr. Technical Analyst
Duration: 6-Month Contract with potential of an extension/conversion
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid-2-3 Days in Office-150 N Riverside Plz
Chicago, IL 6060
The Technical Analyst will play a key role on the team acting as the primary contact for architecture, security, infrastructure, and other various technical inquiries, and collaborating with both internal and external infrastructure and operations teams to ensure the Loyalty System is in compliance with all corporate regulations.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provide technical leadership and consulting across the Loyalty system applications, architecture, security, infrastructure, and web service functions & features down to the project planning level
• Demonstrate organizational commitment for all high-level infrastructure plans, and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans
• Establishes, communicates, and executes common goals and directions for teams and provides direction and guidance for technical staff
• Document current system integrations, infrastructure, and process flows as well as technical system requirements as needed
• Provide feedback to business and technical partners during requirement and design phases to ensure final solutions effectively and efficiently meet business needs while complying to technical and operational rules
• Assist in the design and implementation of security and infrastructure projects to maintain compliance and optimal performance of the loyalty system
• Act as a liaison to internal leadership and application owners to provide best practices and priority recommendations to ensure systems of responsibility are operating at optimum levels
• Evaluate new technologies to determine if/how they could benefit systems of responsibility
• Integrate loyalty business-level processes and data within an enterprise and between organizations by linking applications, whether purchased or developed in-house, to better support business processes, reduce cycle times (or latencies), costs, and increase agility to respond quickly to new business opportunities
• Analyze, document, and understand the IT architecture, loyalty business processes and data that exist within the enterprise
• Makes recommendations for modifications to existing software to fit specialized loyalty needs and configurations
• Provide architectural consulting expertise and direction to application development team
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of development and operations
• Design, develop, and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated systems
• Review new and existing IT projects, system designs, and procurement plans for compliance
• Creates and/or review high level and detailed architecture and design documents for logical and physical application architectures, interacting with multiple teams and stakeholders
• Actively engage third party partners understanding industry and technological trends
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
• 5+ years' work experience in solution design and systems architecture.
• Proven experience in systems design and development.
• Strong understanding of information processing principles and practices.
• Solid grounding in core enterprise applications.
• In-depth technical knowledge of network, PC, and platform operating systems.
• Working technical knowledge of current systems software, protocols, and standards.
• Strong knowledge of hardware and software evaluation principles and practice.
• Proven project planning and management experience.
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.
• Superior written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent technical architecture and technical support documentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills.
• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as required.
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Sizing, deployment, and delivery experience, preferred in 1 or more of the following technologies - Kubernetes, NoSQL, APIs, Big Data Technologies, NLP, MLP, graph, elastic search, RDBMS, SQL Server, Azure or AWS cloud technologies.
• Experience in Event managed micro services architecture, BRMS/Business Rules Engine in micro services-based architecture.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Excellent organizational skills and detail orientation, with demonstrated ability to prioritize and multi-task under tight time frames and with competing priorities.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor's Degree in MIS, computer science, or a related field
Required Skills : Top skills: Understanding architecture and how those things work throughout the cloud on prem systems Security and infra are key pieces - making sure those pieces flow Help guide different teams on process flow API design and management Experience with process flow and technical systems.
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Administration/Support
Master Job Title :VMS Access Entry
Branch Code :Chicago