Technical Analyst II
Role Summary
The Technical Analyst understands the business/project needs & works with various business partners and determine the system requirements. The Technical Analyst collaborates with the design teams, fiber teams, engineering teams and other business partners to determine and capture system impacts based on the requirements. The Technical Analyst works closely with NOC/Change Management to ensure compliance to all network level impacts being properly documented.
Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions
- Works with Fiber Techs, Engineering and Change Management to interpret customer and business needs and translate them into application, system, technical and operational requirements.
- Engages and participates in project planning requirement sessions in order to ensure proper technical requirements are clearly documented, testable, and managed.
- May works closely with business and boundary partners (Field Operations, Customer Care and vendors) to support Change Management efforts.
- Communicates technical and business aspects of work efforts between team members.
- Determines impact on existing scheduled change management activity.
- Provides project manager with time and resource estimates for technical requirements.
- Works with technical team to ensure all requirements are addressed in solution design.
- Develops technical documentation, processes, installation procedures and service guides, application training information and may assist in the development of end-to-end documentation for various projects and change management activities.
- Participates in peer review of solution design documentation.
- Reviews vendor documents as appropriate including detailed functional specifications, and file and field layouts and determines if vendor solutions meet Cox requirements.
- Develops measurements and reports on key service-level metrics.
- Possesses a clear understanding of the architecture standards, a high-level understanding of the business, and a deep understanding of respective domain architectures (business, information, application, technology).
- Depicts the enterprise information conceptually, logically and physically.
- Identifies architectural implications of the business requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2 years' experience in a related field. (i.e., fiber splicing, optical trouble shooting and restoration/repair of complex fiber networks) The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 6 years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
- Requires strong knowledge of fiber design architecture, interpruting technical documentation, fiber splicing documentation and strong understanding of transport technologies over fiber networks.
- Requires strong knowledge of Microsoft applications i.e. Excel, Word, Outlook
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization.
Preferred
- BS/BA degree in related discipline strongly desired
- Experience in telecommunications industry desired
- Experience in Change Management activities, including impact analysis.
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