Senior Data Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

ASRC Federal Vistronix (ASRC Federal) is actively seeking a senior data analyst to join our Denver-based team and support defining business requirements for software to support for our federal customer. The successful candidate will work with business sponsors and other relevant stakeholders to define and document the business requirements for complex government software systems and advise on the design and query relational databases for secure data storage or processing. The ability to work with both technical and non-technical audiences is very important. Having a solid understanding of the software development process and being able to translate information for non-technical stakeholders is key. Most of the work will be performed virtually, but some travel to the government site in Denver may occur in the future.

Responsibilities

This position will be responsible for providing data and business analysis services is support of developing requirements for new and upgraded government systems. Experience with DBMS design and system analysis, current software solutions, and data manipulation techniques and languages are key skillsets. Works closely with peers to evaluate the effects of systems tools or equipment changes on specific software solutions and the larger enterprise environment. An understanding of Agile development lifecycle is important in defining Minimal Viable Product (MVP) specifications when migrating legacy applications to modern platforms.

Key Tasks

• Perform business analysis to support the project managers in defining project scope and objectives. Elicit information and document functional requirements from product owners and business sponsors through oral and written communication.
• Understand data standardization and data governance methodologies and develop strategy towards successful implementation of these methodologies.
• Develop strategies for full-lifecycle data usage, including data acquisition, legacy data migration, warehouse implementation, and archive recovery.
• Evaluate business function and data sources alignment to data-as-a-service (DaaS) delivery model.
• Support the federal Authority to Operate (ATO) and System of Record Notice (SORN) processes.

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Requirements

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree. Advanced Degree or data/IT-related certification also desired.
• At least six (6) years of related work experience in business and data analysis including data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical), data migration and requirements development. Education may be used in-lieu of experience.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Client Interaction: Facilitating meetings with subject matter experts from various levels of the business to organize work and priorities. Discuss business requirements, data standardization, and data governance methodologies and help guide the client towards successful development and modernization of systems.
• Data analysis: Understanding and interpreting facilities, infrastructure, and planning data to include comparatives, gaps, needs, values, limits, applications, matrices, processes, models, impacts, issues, manipulation, organizational, performance, conformity, and recommendations. Includes fusing data from several sources to conduct analysis and provide reports, tables, graphs, and charts.
• Business Process analysis skills
• Business analysis: Creating required business process deliverable documents. Examples of documents include concept of operations, business case, business requirement specifications (BSR), workflow diagrams, context diagrams, use cases, user stories, and alternatives analysis documentation.
• Familiarity with formalized requirements management concepts (including requirements traceability) such as those defined by PMI and IIBA.
• Data modeling: Creation of conceptual, logical, and physical data models and defining data interfaces between systems.
• Data migration: Planning and executing data migration efforts. Define plans for data that needs to be brought forward from legacy system and that does not meet new data standards (bad data planning).
• Data collection: Includes identifying, compiling, arranging, sorting, organizing, incorporating, reviewing, and determining applicability from various sources.
• Strong technical writing skills, with the ability to concisely describe data requirements and functional requirements. Documentation is a primary deliverable for this position.
• The successful candidate is subject to a U.S. Federal Government background investigation and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of public trust.

Desired Skills

• Prior government work experience (as a federal employee or a government contractor) a plus.
• Experience with working with Geospatial Data.
• Data mining: Mining enterprise systems and applications for data and information in support of infrastructure investment strategy and planning. Extensive knowledge of querying databases using structured query language (SQL) is required.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture and development of architectural diagrams.
• Possess a solid understanding of Agile and SAFe development methodologies.
• Experience working with a wide range of personnel, including business sponsors, product owners, project managers, development teams, and end users at all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity with IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and other commonly used project management frameworks.

**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.