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How To Write a Programmer Analyst Job Description Sample

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A Programmer Analyst, or Systems Analyst Programmer, writes, changes, integrates, and tests computer programs for an organization. A Programmer Analyst’s primary responsibilities include preparing documentation on development and analysis projects, writing code in a variety of programming languages, and developing computer programs.

What does a Programmer Analyst do? 

A Programmer Analyst does the jobs of both a computer programmer and a systems analyst. They work to create software programs or update existing applications to fulfil an organization’s technology requirements or needs. A Programmer Analyst conducts knowledge-sharing sessions with clients to identify their specific requests. The Programmer Analyst then codes a program to meet those requirements and tests the product before the program launch. They provide troubleshooting services before, during, and after launch where required. A Programmer Analyst also creates thorough training and user documentation for the new program or application.

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Programmer Analyst Job Description Examples:

Example 1

Client: New Government of New Brunswick

Estimated Start Date: 03-Jun-2024

Estimated End Date: 31-Mar-2025

Location of Services: fredericton

Work Location: In Fredericton
Position Title: Programmer Analyst - Level 3 --- 20462

Client: New Government of New Brunswick



Teleworking is an option for the successful candidate upon approval from the Project Manager and may be revoked at any time during the engagement in which case the successful candidate would be required onsite (at no additional expense to SNB) for the duration of the engagement with SNB at a location to be determined inFredericton, NB.

Requirement Detail/Qualification:

Deliverable Details:

Evaluation Details:

The successful candidate must deliver the following in order to successfully complete the engagement:
  • Delivering and documenting new solutions or changes to existing solution as per specifications.
  • Delivering solutions that integrate into/leverage existing enterprise systems.
  • Troubleshooting problems and delivering timely resolutions to said problems.
  • Delivering code following SNB Business Applications – EECD standards and industry best practices.
  • Delivering code that has been thoroughly unit tested.

Thanks & Regards

Simran Vishwakarma
Senior Technical Recruiter

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $44.76-$78.97 per hour

Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday



Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Example 2

Full time permanent position

Benefits/Omers with Full Time permanent position

Work Location : Home office

Hours: 8:30-4:30
  • Translate product requirements & user stories to detailed technical specifications and software development
  • Articulate and document software design
  • Prioritize, assign and execute tasks throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Collaborate with others to determine design specifications or details
  • Write well designed, efficient code
  • Ability to work with complex stored procedures
  • Write unit and integrations tests to ensure optimal code
  • Conduct code reviews with peers
  • Provide expertise in technical analysis and solving technical issues during project delivery
  • Demonstrate ownership

Requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience in Software Development
  • Preferred Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience
  • Experience working in Scrum or Agile based environment
  • knowledge of build management tools: Maven, Jenkins
  • Experience designing, building and testing Java EE applications
  • Experience in developing complex applications with JavaScript, Ajax, SQL, ASP NET, XML, DHTML & JS libraries such as Angular, React and Vue
  • Experience in building RESTful APIs following Micro-Services Architecture
  • knowledge of SQL
  • knowledge of core Java, Hibernate, Bootstrap, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Batch, Spring Cloud, JSP/JSF, Ajax
  • knowledge of Web Application Server: Tomcat, Apache, IIS
  • knowledge of software design patterns
  • Ability to work independently and in a fast paced environment
  • Excellent communication and analytical skills
  • Preference will be given to candidates with school board experience

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $74,050.00-$83,343.00 per year

Benefits:
  • Dental care
  • Extended health care
  • Life insurance
  • Vision care
  • Work from home
Schedule:
  • 8 hour development: 5 years (preferred)

Example 3

Duties and Responsibilities

The primary objective is to ensure that IT enterprise application systems within the company are designed, developed, deployed and supported in a client-centric, efficient and cost effective manner. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the analysis, development, integration, testing, implementation, documentation and maintenance of new and existing systems and integration software in support of systems development and enterprise-wide systems operation.

They will also be responsible for engaging with clients to understand the requirements, analyzing, reviewing and proposing system design to ensure requirements are met, and facilitate the implementation of system enhancements or changes.

Required Qualifications:

  • PHP
  • Javascript
  • C#
  • .Net
  • Apache
  • Crystal Reports
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Excel VBA
  • LDAP
  • MS SQL Server
  • MySQL database creation, administration and tuning
  • Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL
  • Windows Server Administration and upgrades
  • Active Directory
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • Exchange server administration
  • System data backup

Other experience
  • Networking background
  • Avaya Phone System
  • Barcode solutions
  • ExactMax
  • MS Dynamics
  • Unicam Software

Salary is negotiable dependent on experience. This is a 1-year contract that could be extended to a full employment contract based on performance throughout the contract period.

MPIQC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local law.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Salary: $60,000.00-$70,000.00 per year

Additional pay:
  • Bonus pay
Benefits:
  • Company events
  • Dental care
  • Disability insurance
  • Extended health care
  • Flexible schedule
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking
  • Paid time off
  • Work from home
Schedule:
  • 8 hour shift

Ability to ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Example 4

Position Overview

The Senior Programmer Analyst’s duty is to perform in-depth analysis, design, and development as well as troubleshooting, and maintenance programming work within a team. Work often involves many complex programming solutions. The Senior Programmer Analyst will assist in developing the skill of other team members and will help guide their work. In addition, noting inefficiencies and anomalies in existing systems and ensuring a means to improve and rectify them as well as, developing new applications according to Future standards.

Responsibilities

· Analysis and troubleshooting of problems, and identification of alternative solutions.

· Technical design and analysis.

· Evaluation of user change requests, and delivery of working solutions.

· Performance of programming necessary to the implementation of program changes, and definition of any necessary specifications.

· An understanding of the systems in general, with special emphasis on the assigned area.

· Performance of sundry tasks related to production support, including bug identification, program correction, correction of corrupt files, and system documentation.

Qualifications and Experience

· A minimum of scholastic achievement is required, such as a M.I.S. certificate, or technical certificate. A university degree is preferred.

· A minimum of five or more years of experience directly related to programming and analysis.

· Experience coordinating team members is an asset.

· Technological skills dictated by job function (see below)

· Proven experience as a .NET programming

· Familiarity with the [website] framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns

· Hands on experience with the following technologies:

1. [website]

2. C #

3. Visual Basic

4. XML

5. HTML

· Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)

· Understanding of Agile methodologies

· Excellent troubleshooting skills

· Attention to detail.

#YourFuture

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:
  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Dental care
  • Disability insurance
  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee assistance program
  • Extended health care
  • Life insurance
  • On-site gym
  • On-site parking
  • Paid time off
  • RRSP match
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision care
  • Work from home
Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday



Experience:
  • .NET: 7 years (required)

Licence/Certification:
  • work authorization in Canada Location: In person

Example 5

Background:

In 2018, the Department of Health developed a Community Health IT Strategy whose primary goal was the development of a centralized Patient Case Management solution that allowed healthcare providers to collaborate on the care of a patient.

In 2020, the Department acquired the Salesforce Health Cloud Platform to deliver on it’s Community Health IT Strategy. Salesforce was chosen given its ability to provide a comprehensive set of tools, features and powerful analytic tools specifically designed for the healthcare industry.

The Department is currently focused on development and expansion of it’s CommunityCareNB application with the onboarding of Ambulance New Brunswick (ANB). ANB is responsible for providing land and air ambulance services throughout New Brunswick. To address internet and cellular connectivity issues a decision was made by the Department to construct a Progress Web App (PWA). The PWA will allow paramedics to capture details regarding patient care without the concern of connectivity issues. Once online, information captured in the PWA would be uploaded into the CommunityCareNB application.

Work Location:

The successful vendor resources are not required onsitefor the engagement but are required to be available during the Departments Business Hours .

Mandatory Requirements:

Resource must be able to effectively communicate in English (verbal and written).

University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Scored Requirements:

Experience as a developer responsible for analyzing complex problems, proposing alternative solutions, and breaking down into workable tasks.(8 years)

Experience with front-end development using React JS framework, Node JS, Next JS, Svelte, or Astro along with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript(2 years)

Integration experience with APIs to ensure optimal data flow and synchronization(2 years)

Experience in the design and implementation of robust progressive web apps (PWA) with a focus on user experience and performance.(2 years)

Experience in the utilization of local storage and IndexedDB, NoSQL for managing application data efficiently(2 years)

Experience with different secure authentication (Azure IDP) and manage session effectively.(2 years)

Experience with adherence to best practices for securing PWA and encrypt local data to safeguard sensitive information(2 years)

Experience creating and managing service workers for offline capabilities and optimized resource handling.(2 years)

Experience with Azure DevOps to mange the CI/CD pipelines(1 year)

Familiarity with Salesforce Lightning Design System and Salesforce APIs and their integration would be considered an asset.(1 year)

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday



Application question(s):
  • The successful Candidates are not required onsite for the engagement but are required to be available during the Departments Business Hours

Language:
  • English (preferred)


Work Location: Remote


Application deadline: start date: 2024-06-17

Example 6

Contractor-Programmer Analyst

Missions

ABOUT THE JOB

Our team is focussed on the development and operations of accounting IT systems for regulatory, management and performance monitoring purposes. We align both with local (America) and global business lines within the Global Banking and Investor Solutions section of the group. We are part of a family of services linked to Finance, Risk and Management.

Our current ambitions are to constantly improve the systems used by our business partners, migrate legacy applications to a public cloud architecture and promote the growth and adoption of in-house data science platforms. There are also opportunities to get involved with "Great Place to Work" initiatives, as well as interest driven efforts and activities within the Montréal Service Center.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR DAY-TO-DAY?

  • Design, develop and maintain applications within our team’s mandate
  • Design, develop and maintain our operation and development platforms
  • Participate in agile ceremonies and the continuous improvement of our development practices and tooling
  • Work in collaboration with our stakeholders to refine requirements and roadmaps
  • Participate in support and operation of the applications and services under our team’s responsibility
  • Participate in the resolution of production when the help desk requires deeper expertise
  • Communicate with users and other teams on projects, delivery and production quality
  • Participate QA and UAT testing around software development
  • Participate in Change Management / Release Management (CMRM) processes
  • Conduct data analysis for our users or for improvement purposes

Profile

Skills AND Qualifications

  • University degree in computer science, engineering or relevant field
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Hands on experience with data manipulation and transformation
  • Experience in a complex IT environment a strong asset
  • Experience in the financial services industry or with accounting models considered an asset

Technical Skills

  • Proficiency in the Microsoft .NET Core, (ideally [website] and MVC).
  • Good understanding of SQL, relational data modelling and database engines
  • Hands on experience developing and deploying microservices, REST APIs
  • Capacity to interact or participate in front-end development (ex: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, [website], etc.)
  • Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines (ex: Github, Jenkins)
  • Hands on experience with containerization (ex: Kubernetes, Docker) considered an asset
  • Familiarity with Spark, Azure, AKS, Hadoop/HDInsights considered nice to have

Skills and aptitudes:

  • Functional in French and English
  • Familiarity with the Scrum methodology
  • Familiarity with software development lifecycles

Regards

Ayush Goyal

SOHO Square Solutions

106 W 32 Street #108 New York, NY 10001, USA

1 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5J 2P1, Canada

Ph. [phone number]| Fax. [phone number]

Web. [website]

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $60.00-$65.00 per hour

Benefits:
  • Dental care
Schedule:
  • 8 hour shift



Ability to commute/relocate:
  • Montreal, QC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Language:
  • English and French Location: In person

Example 7

DO YOU LOVE TO CODE AND Create Amazing Applications?

MAK Consulting is an exciting and innovative software development company based in Burlington and Brantford, Ontario. We have an immediate opening for a current or future superstar software developer.

The ideal candidate would reside within commuting distance to either our Brantford or Burlington office. However, based on our experience during the pandemic, we are allowing some employees to work fully or partially remotely (within Ontario).

Please NOTE we are looking for people eligible to obtain a Visa to travel to all over the world. You MUST be a citizen of Canada, US or Mexico, and you must hold an appropriate degree. Permanent residents of Canada and Mexico are not able to apply for TN Visas. Some of our clients are located globally and occasional onsite travel is required to commission an application. DO NOT APPLY IF THIS DOESN’T APPLY TO YOU.

YOU’LL WANT TO MEET US, IF YOU:
  • Enjoy learning new technologies and applying them to the task at hand
  • Take pride in the quality of your code
  • Love to deliver great results for clients
  • Are high energy, and love working with people
  • Value being trusted to take on responsibility
  • Like being part of a creative process
  • Enjoy traveling and experiencing different parts of the world
  • Love to see a job through from start to finish
  • Have a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related disciplines
  • Like coding with HTML5, C#, and SQL

WE WANT TO MEET YOU, IF YOU:
  • Want to work for a team-oriented company
  • Are looking for a company that stakes its reputation on the quality of its work
  • Are looking for a big-city salary while enjoying a lower cost of living
  • Want to avoid the stop-and-go traffic to and from Toronto
  • Want to grow along with a fast-growing company
  • Want to work for a place where the owners are programmers too
  • Want a career where you are appreciated by both your employer AND clients
  • Want to be part of a team that prides itself on being friendly, professional and respectful

STILL WITH US? HERE ARE SOME Additional Details:

JOB Responsibilities
  • Perform software programming tasks including development, integration testing, unit testing, and documentation
  • Develop new functionality to fulfill client initiatives, including web development and systems integration
  • Translate business requirements into detailed design specifications to address both functional and non-functional requirements for major feature components
  • Perform system analysis, code modifications, and functional testing to troubleshoot application production issues

Required Qualifications
  • University/College education in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related disciplines
  • 3+ years recent Experience in HTML5, JavaScript, SQL, and C#
  • Ability to write high-quality code
  • Strong written & oral communication skills
  • Excellent problem solving and team building skills
  • Adaptable, able to learn new skills/technologies
  • Ability to work globally

BONUS Qualifications
  • Experience with Angular, AngularJS, Bootstrap, SQL (Microsoft SQL Server preferred), [website] (WebForms & MVC), Web API
  • Experience with source control systems such as DevOps, SVN, GIT
  • Strong skills in Windows based operating systems
  • Project management experience
  • Experience with Microsoft Office product suite

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $60,000.00-$110,000.00 per year

Schedule:
  • 8 hour shift
Supplemental pay types:
  • Bonus pay

Education:
  • DCS / DEC (preferred)

Experience:
  • programming: 3 years Location: Hybrid remote in Burlington, ON
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Programmer Analyst duties and responsibilities

Programmer Analysts perform work to meet organizational needs through the development and implementation of new software programs and applications. Duties and responsibilities of a Programmer Analyst may include: 

  • Working with IT departments, company managers, and clients to develop, maintain, and test computer programs
  • Creating procedures to best design, write, test, debug, troubleshoot, and maintain the source code of computer programs
  • Arranging project expectations for computer capabilities, subject matter, and programming language through requirements analysis and preparation of workflow charts
  • Providing technical support for computer applications
  • Helping to install and test software during project rollouts
  • Assisting in the definition, development, and documentation of client requirements, objectives, and deliverables on a project-by-project basis
  • Researching, identifying, analyzing, and fulfilling requirements of internal and external program users
  • Administering critical analysis of test results and delivering solutions as needed

Programmer Analyst skills and qualifications

A successful Programmer Analyst has various prerequisite skills and qualifications required for the duties performed in this job. Some of these may include: 

  • Excellent understanding of coding methods and best practices
  • Ability to interview end-users for insight on software functionality, interface problems, and usability issues
  • Ability to be flexible and adaptable regarding client needs and technology
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to research software-related issues and products
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-stress environment

Programmer Analyst experience requirements

When reviewing resumes for a Programmer Analyst, look for an applicant with at least two years of experience working in similar roles, such as a computer programmer, or with knowledge and application of related software programs. A successful applicant should also have experience working with a variety of coding languages such as RPG ILE, SQL, CL, DDS, or XML. A good Programmer Analyst has experience working with database interfaces such as MySQL or IBM query.

Programmer Analyst training and education

Programmer Analyst candidates need to have at least a bachelor’s degree in areas such as computer science or software engineering from an accredited university. An ideal candidate may also have a graduate certificate in computer programming from an accredited college program. Completing an internship or other type of practicum study program in a related field may also be beneficial.

Programmer Analyst salary expectations

According to Indeed Salaries, the average salary for a Programmer Analyst in Canada is $72,808 per year. The salary can vary depending on experience, location, or the company that is hiring.

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