Monday, March 08, 2010

Tri-State - System Analyst

Tri-State is a Denver based progressive and rapidly growing non-profit consumer owned wholesale supplier of electric power to forty-four distribution cooperatives in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and New Mexico. With over 1100 employees, Tri-State operates and maintains fossil fuel power plants with owned coal-fired capacity of 1826 megawatts, gas turbines with 526 megawatts of capacity, and over 5000 miles of high voltage transmission lines.

The IT System Analyst is responsible for leading projects in the development and maintenance of application software for business and engineering functions in a client/server environment. This involves leading project teams in the establishment of requirements, procedures, methodology, and tracking for complex user applications from inception to implementation; preparing work plans and coordinating the activities of the IT project team participants; and performing complex applications programming as well as developing programming standards and procedures.

(The general requirements listed below are for the Senior System Analyst position. The requirements for the System Analyst I * III are similar but less in overall scope).

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related area or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

* Eight (8) years of progressive applications development programming experience in a medium to large computer system and client/server environment.

* Extensive knowledge of application development, support and maintenance including business, engineering and/or operations, and programming methodology, procedures and concepts.

* Extensive knowledge of Oracle client/server applications development tools, report writers and database. Extensive knowledge of computer operating systems including Windows, VMS, UNIX, and/or Windows NT.

* Extensive knowledge of structured system analysis and design methodologies.

* Extensive knowledge of PC equipment, printers, modems, network and related computer equipment and personal computer software.

* Extensive knowledge of computer network protocols such as TCP/IP, SQL*net, Decnet, LAT, and related protocols.

In order to be considered for the System Analyst, all candidates MUST have:

* 3+ years experience with Cobol software development
* 3+ years experience developing applications with Oracle PL-SQL
* 3+ years experience developing applications in a Unix-based environment

Preferred Experience:

* 3+ years experience supporting Ventyx PassPort
* 3+ years experience in an Electric Utility company

Submit resume and cover letter online at www.tristategt.org, then click on Careers. You may also mail a resume to: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.,
HR (DICSYSAN), PO Box 33695, 1100 W. 116th Avenue
Denver, CO 80233

Tri-State offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefit package.

Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran