How do they match: Computer Systems Analysts

  • Developer
  • Applications Developer
  • Automatic Data Processing Planner
  • Data Processing Consultant
  • Data Processing Systems Analyst
  • Data Processing Systems Consultant
  • Data Processing Systems Project Planner
  • Research and Development Specialist
  • Systems Developer

  • Analyze science, engineering, business, and other data processing problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions, improve existing computer systems, and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and schedule limitations. May analyze or recommend commercially available software.

  • Develop, document, and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
  • Analyze information processing or computation needs and plan and design computer systems, using techniques such as structured analysis, data modeling, and information engineering.
  • Assess the usefulness of pre-developed application packages and adapt them to a user environment.
  • Confer with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address.
  • Interview or survey workers, observe job performance, or perform the job to determine what information is processed and how it is processed.
  • Read manuals, periodicals, and technical reports to learn how to develop programs that meet staff and user requirements.
  • Use object-oriented programming languages, as well as client and server applications development processes and multimedia and Internet technology.
  • Use the computer in the analysis and solution of business problems, such as development of integrated production and inventory control and cost analysis systems.

  • Develop diagrams or flow charts of system operation.
  • Develop testing routines or procedures.
  • Document design or development procedures.