• Location: Albany, New York
• Type: Contract
• Job #12813

DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Service Level Agreement (SLA) Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY

* This position is primarily remote, with on-site attendance required for the first 3 weeks. After the initial 3-week period, you will be required to be on-site 2 days per quarter.

Job Summary:
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) Analyst supports the development, implementation, validation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) across a large-scale, complex program within the Program Management Office (PMO).
The SLA Analyst serves as a central point of coordination for new, existing, and revised SLAs. The role partners with functional teams to translate contractual, business, and operational expectations into clearly defined, measurable, and reportable performance requirements.
The SLA Analyst combines project coordination, meeting facilitation, business analysis, data validation, and performance reporting. This role is particularly important for SLAs involving complex business or technical processes.

Key Responsibilities:
The SLA Analyst partners with functional teams to:

• Define and document SLA measurement methodologies, including data sources, calculations, measurement periods, exclusions, dependencies, and reporting requirements.
• Assess whether proposed SLA requirements can be reliably measured using available systems and data, and identify changes needed to support accurate and consistent measurement.
• Develop and maintain implementation plans that define requirements, milestones, dependencies, validation activities, ownership, and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate with functional teams and stakeholders to support SLA implementation, validation, monitoring, and ongoing performance analysis.
• Facilitate meetings and working sessions related to SLA development, implementation, validation, and performance.
• Validate data, calculations, metrics, reports, and system-generated results to support accurate SLA measurement and reporting.
• Support the identification and resolution of issues that may affect SLA measurement, reporting, or performance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of SLA processes, measurement methodologies, reporting, and operational practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Minimum of six (6) years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in project coordination, project management, quality assurance, data analysis, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing, implementing, managing, or reporting Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships with key stakeholders and support functional teams in developing business requirements, operational processes, technical implementations, data validation, and performance analysis.
• Experience validating data, calculations, metrics, reports, or system-generated results.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and priorities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical, business, operational, and leadership stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data analysis or reporting tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), or other performance measurement methodologies.
• Experience with Splunk or similar monitoring, analytics, or reporting platforms.
• Experience developing business requirements, business rules, process flows, or procedures.
• Experience working within a large-scale, multi-team application or operational environment.
• Experience working in healthcare, Medicaid, Health Insurance Exchange, or other highly regulated programs.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives related to performance measurement, reporting, or operational processes.

This opportunity is available as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months of employment.
 

• Location: Albany, New York
• Type: Contract
• Job #12795

DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Java Application Security Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY

* This position is primarily remote, with on-site attendance required for the first 3 weeks. After the initial 3-week period, you will be required to be on-site 2 days per quarter.

Job Description:
You’ll join our talented Development Team. Our project is built on a multi-tier architecture including service-oriented architecture, multi-tier web applications using Java and various other COTS products.    
Responsibilities:   

• Work closely with development teams to diagnose, document, and remediate application security vulnerabilities and identify appropriate security checkpoints in SDLC.
• Perform risk-based, technical assessments/penetration tests of applications, using dynamic and static scanning tools, and audits ensuring compliance with industry standards
• Consult with Development leadership on application development training.
• Research new attack vectors and stay current with cybersecurity news and trends

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:     
 Education: 
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience 

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of Information Technology experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing a repeatable process to aggressively prioritize issue dispositions and remediations of security findings — while providing clear, concise status updates and risk reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI-driven code analysis platforms into CI/CD pipelines to identify vulnerabilities and insecure coding patterns before deployment.
• Hands-on experience assessing new code commits, pull requests, and architecture changes for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance risks.
• 3+years with Application Security Engineering conducting assessments, penetration testing, implementing tools for dynamic /automated code review, dynamic and static application scanning (Fortify, SonarQube); consulting on security designs of applications, potential vulnerabilities, and remediation, and creating training materials on key security concepts.
• Java/Web development with a strong secure coding background in RHEL and JBoss.
• 5+ years in a software development role as a Developer or Architect

 Skills:

• Strong oral and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex topics to colleagues and management
• Critical thinking and creative problem solving 
• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner; gather and analyze information skillfully; develop alternative solutions
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrated collaboration and teaching abilities.

Nice to have:
CISSP, CEH, CISA, OSCP, OSCE, or OSWE Certifications   

This opportunity is available as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months of employment.

 

• Location: Albany, New York
• Type: Contract
• Job #12793

DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Data Analyst/BI Developer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Albany, NY

* This position is primarily remote, with on-site attendance required for the first 3 weeks. After the initial 3-week period, you will be required to be on-site 2 days per quarter.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT

• You will work on a small dynamic team that provides strategic know-how through Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Visualization platforms to deliver quality reports for State & Federal Agencies.
• Apply an understanding of business metrics and a commercial mindset to perform Data analysis, find patterns, data anomalies and review.
• Work closely with functional teams to understand requirements regarding solutions to ensure data quality.
• Collaborate on definition, development, and maintenance of standards and processes.
• Develop models and create templates to ensure timely and accurate deliverables, data integrity, efficient workflow, reusability, and automation.
• Create dashboards using workspace advance to facilitate drill up/down and slicing/dicing of data. Produce Ad Hoc reports with a turnaround time based on business needs.
• Support continuous improvement and automation in BI solutions and processes.
• Support client data exchange and integration needs by leveraging technical expertise in database applications, ETL processes, and automation.
• Apply knowledge of upstream and downstream Enterprise applications to support dashboard development lifecycle discipline

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent

Required Experience: (NO MORE than 5 years of experience will be accepted)

• Three (3) years of industry experience with focus on SQL, PL/SQL, SQL-PL in DB2
• Three (3) years’ experience with a BI tool (Cognos is preferred)
• Two (2) years of experience in design/data modeling for Data Mart/Data Warehouse

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of OLAP business intelligence applications
• Strong understanding of reporting and database environments, processes, and associated applications
• Competencies leveraging data visualization tools for senior management and enterprise data visualization
• Ability to translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to implement required reports and dashboards
• Knowledge of RTC/ELM or similar tools
• Competencies in database architecture such as relative, star and snowflake schemas.
• Competencies in DB2 (or other RDBMS)
• Level 3 Procedural Languages (i.e.: ANSI, SQL, PL/SQL)
• Writing complex SQL queries, SQL PL procedures in IBM DB2 environment.
• Competencies with UNIX/LINUX operating systems

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Good verbal, writing/documentation, communication, organizational, and time management skills 
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills, including mapping of business need or issue to development of application requirements or procedural initiatives.
• Strong understanding of reporting and database environments, processes, and associated applications.
• Well-developed knowledge of operational systems, processes and budgeting/forecasting concepts and activities
• Proven ability to ensure effective forms of documentation essential for support of overall technical and user needs.
• Ability to work in complex matrix organization.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.0 or higher
• Experience authoring and maintaining reports using IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.0 or higher against relational, dimensional, and transactional databases
• Experience with Core Java
• Hands-on experience with data architecture and data analysis skill sets
• Familiarity with PMI standards and practices
• Healthcare Industry experience

This opportunity is available as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months of employment.