Overview
Work with a team of engineers, architects, developers, testers and analysts to support the State Department's Center for Analytics. We are looking for a Business Analyst that has a strong work ethic, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, is detail oriented, and organized. This candidate should have experience and knowledge leading an Agile Team.
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:
- Facilitate meetings effectively, ensuring clear communication and active participation among attendees
- Accurately capture and document meeting notes, highlighting key points and decisions made during the discussions
- Disseminate meeting minutes in a timely manner to all relevant team members, stakeholders, and government leadership, fostering transparency and collaboration
- 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
