This is a remote position.
About First Due
First Due’s mission is to prevent first responder injury or death by providing fire and EMS agencies with transformative, end-to-end software solutions that empower them to run safer, smarter, and more effective operations.
The Role
Technical Analysts facilitate the deployment of technical components to a client’s site during the implementation phase by working in close coordination with the client, implementation team, and deployment team. As a Technical Analyst, you will take responsibility for identifying business requirements related to technical components (GIS, CAD, data migration, etc.), gathering information and resources related to the implementation, and testing/verifying the functionality/integrity of each deployed component. Throughout the process, clear and concise documentation should allow all members of the team to track progress and estimated completion of each component.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with client and implementation team to identify business and functional requirements
- Analyze limitations/gaps between business requirements and technical functionality
- Translate business and functional requirements into technical requirements
- Manage updates/changes to business and functional requirements and adjust priorities accordingly
- Maintain communication with all stakeholders internal and external
- Serve as a technical resource internally and with clients
- Provide guidance to the deployment team
- Guide clients through business decisions using industry best practices and/or data rationalized analysis
- Test functionality/integrity of technical components
- Conduct User Acceptance Testing if identified through requirement gathering
Requirements & Qualifications
- This is a remote role, but the employee must live in the US
- Experience explaining technical processes in simple terms
- Experience analyzing multiple scenarios and choosing optimal outcomes
- Demonstrable experience-guided decision-making with documented rationalizations
- Some knowledge of the Fire/EMS industry
- Experience with expanding boundaries related to business and technical limitations
- Demonstrable organizational and time management skills
- Intermediate to mastery level proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Basic to intermediate understanding of delimited data files, structured data files, and file transport methods
- Basic to intermediate understanding of relational data structures (databases)
- Basic to intermediate understanding of GIS components and web services
