Geostate Business Analyst - Lorton, United States - Buchanan And Edwards Inc

Description

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.

• 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, costeffective, 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

• 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

• 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