Softek Global Services provides both operations & strategic support to tribal 8(a) & commercial organizations. Our client is a Tribal-Owned, SBA certified 8(a) small business and trusted federal partner, offering low-risk, fast-path to agile development, lean operations and digital transformations. They have a need for a Business Analyst to join their team to provide services for a government agency in Alexandria, VA. You are a problem solver who is team-oriented and collaborative with a desire to deliver valuable software application solutions to meet client needs. You know how to analyze, define and document business requirements for software solutions which align with organizational goals and help their clients achieve their desired outcomes.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Expertise working with administrators and technology analytics responsible for making critical decisions about product strategy
- Expertise collaborating with stakeholders
- Expertise creating a shared understanding with stakeholders and the team through documentation
- Expertise in business processes and data analytics, design, process improvement to implement efforts and translate business process needs into technical requirements
- Expertise planning and executing research activities and modern techniques to craft effective user stories and support backlog prioritization
- Experience supporting the client/Product Owner and team from feature conceptualization through hand-off to end users
- Experience developing and translating the Product Vision, business goals, and user value to stakeholders and team members
- Experience supporting and managing the Product Roadmap to serve as a visual forecast for upcoming priorities
- Experience leading and conducting testing such as functional, user acceptance, and 508 (visual impairment assistance)
- Ability to work independently and quickly become familiar with the customer’s business challenges, goals and technologies
- Complete other duties as assigned.
Knowledge/Skills required by the position:
- You must have a minimum of 3 – 7 years of experience
- You must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- You must be a U.S. citizen
- You must be able to obtain a top-secret security clearance
Physical Demands:
Work is primarily indoors in an office setting. No unusual physical activity is required. You may travel to Alaska, and in doing so will expose the employee to extreme cold: temperatures typically -10 up to -50 degrees below freezing wind chill for periods of up to 5 hours outside, with frequent breaks in warm dry areas. Employee must be able to lift their personal luggage and any personal equipment/supplies and climb into and out of small planes with confined spaces.
Writing/Communication:
The employee may support federal programs under contract. Contract compliance activities, including scope of work, deliverables, and reporting on contract management activities to Company leadership is required. Ability to clearly articulate and provide technical guidance and assistance to senior agency program managers in the application of the advanced principles, practices and techniques of a specialized field of engineering/science.
Teleworking:
The company has a hybrid remote policy for all employees and is dependent upon the type of position. This position may be assigned to support a federal contract, or to work in office. The Company’s teleworking eligibility may not apply if the employee is supporting a federal services contract. In this instance, the employee may be subject to federal telework policies and may be required to work onsite in the federal facility when requested.
Position Sensitivity and Risk Designation: High Risk
The position may support federal or state contracts. When required, the employee must at least go through a basic background check that can yield a public trust designation to make sure you are reliable, trustworthy, and suitable for the job. A moderate risk position is likely to produce a fair amount of harm or serious damage to the public’s trust. The agency with whom the contract is with, will ask you for the necessary personal information to start the background investigation process. The amount of information you’ll need to give depends on the contract award. Following the investigation, the agency will make their trustworthiness determination.
Employee Non-Disclosure:
The employee must sign and attest to the Company’s non-disclosure statement. The employee is responsible for reporting to the Company’s Compliance, Risk and Ethics Officer any conflicts of interest, and/or provide notification of outside employment, or when release of confidential business is shared with external parties.
COVID-19:
All Company Employees are encouraged to be fully vaccinated upon hiring and maintain annually thereafter. The Company follows all federal and state protocols and regulations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace to protect ourselves, peers and our communities from the severe illness from COVID-19. The employee may be subject to federal statues for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and may be required to show proof of vaccination. Reasonable accommodation from COVID-19 vaccinations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Our client and it’s subsidiary companies attempt to provide equal opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants for employment, with the exception of those situations affected by the Tribal Preference policy. All aspects of employment will be governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.