SOW 25-26-037 July 1, 2025 - Title
Criminal Justice Professional Information Systems and other FDLE Systems - Position Title
Systems Analyst (1240) - Background
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Business Systems Engineering (BSE) section is responsible for system software development and support. FDLE uses Java as the primary development platform. The strategic direction for the department is to deliver scalable, extensible, service-oriented solutions. This requires technical solution research and programming skills for the purpose of improving the infrastructure, performance, reliability, usability and maintainability of FDLE's systems portfolio.
The BSE application software developers are responsible for analyzing, designing, writing code, testing, and implementing applications/systems into production environments as well as facilitating the deployment of COTS products for use by internal FDLE members as well as the public and criminal justice agencies. This includes maintaining existing systems, enhancing systems, and development of new systems to meet legislative requirements or customer needs.
4. Description of Services & Deliverables FDLE requires the services of one Systems Analyst for BSE system software development and support. The Systems Analyst will work under the direction of the BSE supervisor responsible for supporting the Criminal Justice Professionalism Division within FDLE. As needed, the Systems Analyst may work on special assignments or other BSE application software needs.
The Criminal Justice Professionalism Program promotes and facilitates the competency and professional conduct of Florida's criminal justice officers. It works with criminal justice agencies to provide entry-level and in-service officer training and to maintain disciplinary standards, pursuant to Sections .25, FS. FDLE also assists Florida law enforcement agencies in their accreditation application. The Program uses a number of in-house developed Java applications and COTS products.
The person in this position:
- Is a technical expert in all phases of system development. They must understand business, business insight and have a broad understanding of multiple business areas in order to successfully maintain, enhance, and develop systems and applications in BSE.
- Is responsible for technical research of current industry trends, emerging technologies, system integration and configuration for meeting functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Is responsible for clear communication and coordination between stakeholders and IT leadership, project managers, other developers, and other implementation technicians to address various issues, resolve queries, communicate project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.
Systems Analyst responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following: - Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop FDLE systems
- Provide structured, detailed analysis of business processes, requirements and documentation
- Functions as a technical consultant or researcher
- Perform technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc.
- Analyze detailed requirements and documentation
- Program and implement efficient solutions for business requirements
- Contribute on project planning, organization, implementation
- Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development
- Contribute to risk identification, tracking, analysis
- Contribute to issue management and tracking
- Effective communications management
- Effective communication among project stakeholders
- Coordinate activities with FDLE staff required to support the project
- Aids FDLE staff in the preparation of procurement documents and evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations
- Provide weekly status reports to the project manager
- Assist in user training in a train-the-trainer environment
- Customer expectations met with project
- Create, update, and execute test case scenarios following the FDLE methodology of development testing, system testing, and User Acceptance testing
- Assist with the production implementation as needed
Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Systems Analyst on successful, enterprise level information technology projects
- Model and apply software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions
- Work independently or cooperatively with other software developers
- Perform analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues
- Experience with business analysis to gather and document requirements
- Experience creating test plans, test cases, and performance testing
- Ability to code according to specifications with minimal defects
- Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software
- Assists with technology solution architecture design and installation
- Experience in programming to adhere to ADA compliance in web applications
- Experience in delivering projects in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification, and within the approved budget
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to code in the following environments and/or using the tools:
- JBOSS EAP 7.0 and higher
- Java 8.0 and higher
- J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA)
- Java Frameworks like JSF or similar
- Javascript
- MS SQL Server 2012 or higher
- Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
- Web services
- XML
- Linux
- HTML
- CSS
Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities: - Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other related field or equivalent work experience
- MS Project
- MS Visio
- Eclipse (IDE)
- PrimeFaces
- Jasper Reports
- Alfresco
The Systems Analyst will report to the designated FDLE supervisor in BSE. The Systems Analyst is expected to perform the tasks and specific assignments given by the FDLE supervisor.
5. Estimated Period of Engagement Term: July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
Renewal: There shall be no automatic renewals of this contract. The base term will be one (1) year with a one (1) year renewal option. Renewal contracts may not include any compensation for costs associated with the renewal. Renewals shall be contingent upon FDLE Manager approval and will be subject to the availability of funds.
6. Type of Contract - This is a labor hour contract for staff augmentation
- Contractor staff is expected to work a forty (40) hour work week. The duty hours will be set by FDLE. Work hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on a Monday through Friday standard schedule. Contractors are expected to take a minimum of thirty minutes (to a 60-minute maximum) lunch break on a daily basis. Authorization for additional time required above or below the standard schedule or for requested changes to the standard schedule must be approved by the FDLE supervisor or designee.
- On occasion it may be necessary to alter the standard work schedule due to scheduled implementations or emergency system repairs. If this becomes necessary, the contractor will be requested to work after hours or weekends and will either be compensated for the additional work hours at the current hourly rate during that work period or be allowed to adjust his/her schedule to take time off during that work period to compensate for the additional time worked.
- If the contractor desires to work less than the 40 hour work week for any reason, he/she must request in writing via e-mail to the FDLE supervisor or designee and receive preapproval.
- In the event of sickness or emergency which prevents the contractor from coming to work as scheduled or needing to leave early, the contractor must make immediate telephone contact or email contact with the FDLE supervisor or designee.
7. Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights All right, title, and interest, including copyright interests and any other intellectual property, in and to the work produced or provided by the Contractor, alone or in combination with FDLE and/or its employees, under this contract shall be the property of FDLE. Contractor agrees that any contribution by the Contractor or its employees to the creation of such works, including all copyright interest therein, shall be considered works made for hire by the Contractor for FDLE and that such works shall, upon their creation, be owned exclusively by FDLE. To the extent that any such works may not be considered works made for hire for FDLE under applicable law, Contractor agrees to assign and, upon their creation, automatically assigns to FDLE the ownership of such works, including copyright interests and any other intellectual property therein . click apply for full job details