Programmer Analyst II

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement projects from Senior Analyst with little or no guidance.
• Participates in project management with direction from Senior Analyst.
• Frequently plays the role of project leader on different tasks.
• Designs computer screens to accomplish goals of user requests.
• Communicate with users to discuss business needs, problems, and solutions with guidance from Senior Analyst.
• Participates in business plan meetings with other IT and Rain and Hail employees.
• Recreates steps taken by user to locate source of problem and rewrite or outline program instructions to correct errors.
• Other work duties as assigned by management

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to use programming and technical skills to provide input on existing systems and on future potential system.
• Ability to lead a team of programmers whose responsibility is to facilitate tasks assigned by Senior Analyst.
• Ability to analyze software performance for efficiency and detect areas of improvement.
• Ability to program and debug application software for existing and new products.
• Ability to fully understand business area application (MPCI Policy Entry, ERA processing, ePolicyQuote, Commissions, MPCI Loss Processing, 5030 and SOC, Crop Hail Processing, Property and Casualty, etc) and its functions.
• Beginning awareness of relationships between business applications and their dependancies and affects upon one another.

High School Diploma required.  Bachelor’s degree from trade school or university in business or related

programming studies preferred.