Business Analyst

4 weeks ago


Lorton, United States Buchanan & Edwards Full time

**Overview**

The Center for Analytics (CfA) is the U.S. Department of State’s official enterprise data management and analytics capability. CfA transforms data into bold insights that help over 75,000 employees - from working-level to the Secretary - make better management and foreign policy decisions.

The GeoState team within the CfA manages the software and infrastructure for the GeoState platform, the Department’s internal geospatial data analytics platform.

**Location: Springfield/Lorton, VA**

**Minimum Clearance: Interim Secret**

**Work Schedule: Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite, 2 days a week remote (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)**

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Coordinate tasks include tracking delivery, installation, and ensuring operations and security protocols are conducted
- Liaise between end users, stakeholders, and onsite government employees
- Assist in leading a team of IT professionals supporting a major DOS IT program
- Responsible for ensuring all project activities are performed and completed in a timely, cost-effective, and efficient manner
- Responsible for understanding requirements and ensuring that project personnel are fulfilling said requirements
- Identify core business needs, decompose and document concepts of operation, story maps, briefings, and user stories
- Document business rules, and construct workflow diagrams, as needed.
- Condense complex business processes into clear and actionable user stories with acceptance criteria
- Work with IT and mission stakeholders to review, update, and maintain a business process roadmap of the system and evaluate areas of reengineering by outlining potential process improvements
- Responsible for the quality, content, and prompt delivery of all task and contractual deliverables associated with the project
- Demonstrate ability to proactively identify risks and opportunities
- Create and present various documentation and presentations that are visually appealing, concise, and understandable

**Required Qualifications**:

- Well versed in project management, and have a familiarity with IT and Cyber Security
- Excellent oral communication skills, with an ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and business stakeholders Outstanding attention to detail
- Possess strong proficiency in grammar and formatting techniques for documentation and consistently demonstrates exceptional written communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Leadership experience and skills, with exceptional interpersonal and communications skills
- Experienced with gathering and eliciting requirements from various stakeholders
- Experienced with documenting and managing requirements using an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toll such as Azure DevOps or Jira
- Experienced with refining customer requirements into actionable work items such as Epics, User Stories, Tasks, ect.
- Experienced in working with a technical team to identify and document technical solutions and translating them to work items managed in an ALM tool.
- Extensive experience developing technical briefs and presenting at the executive level
- At least three years of experience in requirements gathering/elicitation and documentation

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- A PMP and/or CSM is desired
- Able to manage shifting priorities
- Great customer service skills
- Strong focus and commitment to providing end user customer service
- Adept in managing changing priorities and demanding schedules
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure technology
- Advanced use of Azure DevOps
- Coordinate with Department security and governance boards to ensure ongoing compliance with Department standards and mandates
- Familiarity with Azure Cloud environments (both commercial and government)
- Familiarization with GIS software and processes

Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance

Compensation package:

- Yearly pay

Experience level:

- 3 years

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Experience**:

- Azure DevOps: 3 years (required)

License/Certification:

- PMP and/or CSM is Desired (preferred)

**Location**:

- Lorton, VA 22079 (preferred)

Security clearance:

- Secret (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Lorton, VA 22079 (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lorton, VA 22079



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