IT Business Analyst (Hybrid Remote)

Job Description

Data Networks, Inc (DNC), a subsidiary of ASRC Federal Holding Company, is currently recruiting for an IT Business Analyst with Information Technology Project Management (PM) experience to work alongside the Business Change Management Lead/Project Manager to support a federal government agency located in Silver Spring, MD.

This position requires hybrid skill sets covering technical, analytical, project management, organizational change management, IT business analysis skills, combined with stellar communication and presentation skills. The candidate must possess strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills to thrive in a highly detailed, matrixed, demanding, and collaborative environment.

Salary Range: $80-$120K, depending on experience

The duties for this role may include, but are not limited to:

• Be able to work in a hybrid work environment, with a combination of remote and in-office work at the client's location in Silver Spring, MD.
• Maintain a comprehensive and accurate portfolio of all project activities (e.g., tasks, IT projects, planning meetings, presentations, etc.).
• Collaborate with IT teams, business units, executives, and mid-level managers on a consistent basis.
• Identify and prioritize risks to business processes and people associated with the implementation of IT projects.
• Monitor and track portfolio activities in various reports.
• Apply continual improvement and communicate lessons learned to further improvements in policies, processes, and procedures.
• Measure, monitor, and evaluate outcomes and realign strategic plans as required.
• Perform requirements gathering and analysis, best practice and market research, planning and strategy execution, and assists in developing, documenting, gathering, and analyzing requirements, information and data.
• Provide project analysis documentation including business requirements, use cases, sequence diagrams and future state proposals, presentations and briefings.
• Develop requirements, and ensure requirements meet business needs and objectives, including being Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based (SMART).
• Seek innovative strategies to successfully resolve complex business or technical requirement challenges for the IT infrastructure and related systems and applications.
• Analyze and assess solution proposals, providing clear justification - i.e., assessing stakeholder readiness plans, maximizing value vs. spend, etc.

Desirable for the Role:

• Exposure to Design-thinking, and or User Center Design/Human Centered Design experience and or an understanding of how to use outlined skills to inform strategy development.
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology.
• Enthusiastic, dependable, flexible, committed to excellence
• Passion for making a difference and translating theory into practice.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with 2 years IT Project Management experience and/or Business Process Analyst experience

Essential for the Role:

• Established knowledge of or some experience with project/program management.
• Proven experience in successfully deploying business analysis tools/techniques for business change.
• Proven experience in working with complex and matrixed integrated systems, using creative and strategic thinking to deliver results.
• Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation skills and influencing skills.
• Experience in virtual collaboration to lead, shape, and develop innovative solutions.
• Excellent relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated skills in interacting with Senior Leaders.
• Well-developed organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Independently thrive in a collaborative, high-demand, fast-paced environment.

CLIENT OVERVIEW

The client's project is a multi-year Cloud transformation initiative that works with cross-functional teams, business units, and executives. The IT Business Analyst shall develop an understanding of the organization's overall goals, vision, and objectives for the Cloud transformation initiative, while recommending the tasks and activities needed to evaluate the client's programs.

The candidate will join an existing government and contractor team supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) organization. NOAA/NESDIS provides scientific and technical leadership for development of environmental satellite services and products.

NESDIS Headquarters provides programmatic, technical, and budgetary oversight of major satellite programs, as well as satellite ground development, operations, and science. Its executive team is responsible for balancing the needs of a diverse set of programs, while making efficient use of taxpayer dollars, and meeting the observational needs of its main customer, the National Weather Service. NESDIS HQ also provides coordination and support to the NESDIS financial management centers (FMCs), line offices, data centers, and missions, which include major satellite programs like the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite -- Series R (GOES-R), and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program, the Office of Systems Architecture and Advanced Planning (OSAAP), the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), the Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO), the Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis (OPPA), and the Office of Satellite Ground Services (OSGS), among others.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement Statement

The COVID-19 vaccination requirement in Executive Order 14042 and FAR 52.223-99 is currently not effective. But please note that if those or other related requirements become effective, positions will require successful candidates to obtain and show proof of COVID-19 vaccination(s). ASRC Federal is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.

EEO Statement

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.