Defense Data/Business Analyst

You understand the power of great service experience and its ability to inspire customer behavior. You have a keen understanding of what it takes to deliver exceptional services, both in front of the house and behind the scenes. But most of all, you see all of this in the context of furthering our clients’ core mission or business.

You will help large, complex government organizations, especially the Department of Defense, to transform the way they use information to improve operations. The issues to be resolved are often difficult to define and quantify; may involve complex, traditionally competing interests; are often characterized by senior leadership interest and visibility and require extensive proving and analysis. Technical Assent is hiring for a systems analyst with a consulting mindset to help the Department of War (DoW) / Department of Defense (DoD) improve the way it gathers, manages, and uses information to make decisions about use of contractors in military operations.

These efforts will involve understanding procurement data sets (concerning both the procurement process AND procurement outcomes), making recommendations and plans to improve data quality, facilitate discussions to identify and workshop solutions for process challenges, develop use cases for system improvements, among others.

Responsibilities

Support senior DoW clients in oversight and functional sponsorship of DoW’s major contractor management system. This includes: Reviewing and developing policy and budget information Working with the system project management office (PMO) and understanding different situations that arise in theater and working with the client to understand those situations and then consult with the client to provide an official functional sponsor opinion resolutions such as new business rules, changes to system functionality, etc. Support regular meetings and activities of the system Configuration Control Board, including compiling presentations, facilitating meetings, generating meeting summaries.

gov and other DoW sources Will also provide similar support to contracting support systems focus on global market research and intelligence. Work at client site (Alexandria, VA) approximately 3 days per week.

Qualifications

Required: Curious, problem solving, and open-minded approach to work; we are looking for someone who has a base of knowledge but wants to investigate and learn new things Experience or training working with large data sets to identify trends, answer questions, and diagnose inconsistencies Experience or training working with MS Excel to create pivot tables, design basic graphs and charts, and create simple programs and formulas to assist with automating data transformation Experience formulating and executing communications strategies in large organizations to foster engagement from user communities: for example, preparing for meetings, developing presentations, designing basic surveys Experience or training working with MS SharePoint to create customized and interactive web pages for dashboarding, information sharing, and collaboration based on procurement data Experience or training in developing and implementing roadmaps to support strategic capability development for complex organizations: how do we identify the problem to be solved, design a solution, and work with stakeholders to implement?

Requirements

for tools and systems that support business and operational processes Experience or training documenting

in user stories, epics, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes in an agile development environment Experience writing and delivering training products such as user guides, manuals, video tutorials, and in-person trainings Ability to obtain and maintain an act