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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 with a strong work ethic, who is detail-oriented and organized with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 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.

Location: Springfield/Lorton, VA

Minimum Clearance: Interim Secret

Work Schedule: Hybrid – 2 days a week onsite, 3 days a week remote

A challenging and dynamic work environment isn’t all that BE has to offer. When you join BE, you become an integral part of our team. Not just an employee number, but a valued opinion with a voice that carries and drives change and innovation. You’ll have access to some of the most well-respected IT industry leaders in virtually every field and learn new tools and techniques while expanding your knowledge and skillset. We’re dedicated to helping you develop your career, and our culture applauds outside-the-box thinking and initiative. Our employee-focused leadership team knows that your success is our success and empowers employees with the necessary tools to excel. Join us as we continue to move the future forward, together.

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 familiar with IT and Cyber Security
• Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and business stakeholders
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Strong proficiency in grammar and formatting techniques for documentation; consistently demonstrates exceptional written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Leadership experience and skills with exceptional interpersonal and communications skills
• 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
• 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)

Buchanan & Edwards, Inc. (BE) is an Information Technology and Professional Services consulting firm located in Arlington, VA. BE is a diversified high-technology services company, providing government, commercial and nonprofit agencies technology solutions and organizational management services to ensure mission success. Serving the federal sector since 1998, we base our solutions on an in-depth understanding of our clients, their mission and the unique challenges they face. BE is the winner of the 2015 Microsoft U.S. Federal Solution Partner of the Year award, a 2015 and 2016 Washington Post Top Workplace and has been an Inc. 500/5000 awardee for six consecutive years. Buchanan & Edwards, Inc. is dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to crafting a workplace that endorses creativity and innovation, and promotes engagement through open communication, acceptance of new people and ideas, and a supportive team dynamic. Buchanan & Edwards, Inc. is an equal Opportunity Employer–Minorities / Women / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. Buchanan & Edwards is an E-Verify employer.

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