Application Development Analyst - Wirral, United Kingdom - Claire House

Description

Job summary

Supporting implementation of system changes and upgrades for core business apps, with internal and external parties.

Proactively understanding, developing and supporting the integration of internal systems.

Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of technical solutions and making recommendations for improvements.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather, assess, define, and document system requirements based on current business needs, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and objectives.

Understanding pain points and identifying opportunities for streamlining operations.

Conducting comprehensive analysis of existing business systems, processes, and workflows to identify areas for improvement and increased efficiency.

Creating and executing test scenarios at various stages of the project to validate solution design and supporting business users in executing the user acceptance testing.

Main duties of the job

Participating in scoping workshops with business stakeholders and partners; building process and data flows alongside process owners.

Promoting best practices with systems, including training, and showcasing tips and efficiencies for relevant departments as part of the handover to BAU.

Helping educate employees on new processes and systems, ensuring smooth adoption and integration.

Serving as a subject matter expert and providing ongoing support to end-users, addressing queries, troubleshooting issues with ICT support, and implementing system enhancements.

Participating in supporting upgrades for existing programs and applications.

Identifying users' needs and communicating them with third party agencies.

Providing ad-hoc ongoing support and troubleshooting for systems.

Working closely with and being an escalation point for the ICT Support department for

complex technical issues that they are unable to resolve.

The successful candidate will act as a supporting consultant, expert, and agent of change and provide high quality technical business application project support through to test and release.

About us

Claire House has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with excellent communication skills to support us in developing the core applications within our ICT estate, as part of an ambitious digital transformation strategy.

About Us:

Claire House is a place of positivity and laughter, where we help seriously and terminally ill children live life to the full. At Claire House we are passionate about providing outstanding care to children who arent expected to live to be adults, as well as support for their families, from across Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. By providing specialist nursing and end of life care, as well as emotional support, Claire House helps families through some of the toughest times of their lives. It offers places for children to relax and enjoy themselves, whatever their age.

We are actively seeking candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. At Claire House, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and value everyone as an individual. We are committed to organisational practices, which promote diversity and inclusion for all employees and volunteers regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage, and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief. Connecting these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued.

Job responsibilities

Main purpose of job

To help drive the development of the organisation's core applications through process analysis, requirements building and delivery of improved user experience. The role will work closely with knowledgeable application champions in all Depts to ensure that requirements are fully understood, to deliver upgrades, new applications, and process improvements.

Position of the role in Claire House

The post holder reports to the Application Development Manager and will act as a supporting consultant, expert, and agent of change and provide high quality technical business application project support through to test and release.

Main duties and responsibilities

Supporting implementation of system changes and upgrades for core business apps, with internal and external parties.

Proactively understanding, developing and supporting the integration of internal systems.

Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of technical solutions and making recommendations for improvements.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather, assess, define, and document system requirements based on current business needs, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and objectives.

Understanding pain points and identifying opportunities for streamlining operations.

Conducting comprehensive analysis of existing business systems, processes, and workflows to identify areas for improvement and increased efficiency.

Keeping updated on current technologies, and best practices in business process optimisation to improve end user experience and efficiency.

Continually building knowledge of all internal business applications.

Identifying and supporting cut-over and implementation tasks.

Creating and executing test scenarios at various stages of the project to validate solution design and supporting business users in executing the user acceptance testing.

Participating in scoping workshops with business stakeholders and partners; building process and data flows alongside process owners.

Promoting best practices with systems, including training, and showcasing tips and efficiencies for relevant departments as part of the handover to BAU.

Helping educate employees on new processes and systems, ensuring smooth adoption and integration.

Utilising data-driven methodologies to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of implementation, tracking KPIs and generating reports.

Serving as a subject matter expert and providing ongoing support to end-users, addressing queries, troubleshooting issues with ICT support, and implementing system enhancements.

Participating in supporting upgrades for existing programs and applications.

Identifying users' needs and communicating them with third party agencies.

Conformance with documentation and ICT strategy, adhering to agreed business processes.

Working within change management flows/structures.

Providing ad-hoc ongoing support and troubleshooting for systems.

Working closely with and being an escalation point for the ICT Support department for complex technical issues that they are unable to resolve.

Keeping the Application Development Manager updated on all aspects of ongoing project work.

Qualifications

Essential

Skills

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Personal Attributes/Abilities

Essential

Desirable