Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy (DPCAP) falls under the purview of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. The objective is to enable our client to effectively deliver goods and services that meet the needs of the customer, while ensuring stewardship of taxpayer dollars. This includes overseeing and implementing business enterprise initiatives; formulating and overseeing complex, organizational wide policies and strategies supporting the procurement of major programs; and providing innovative policy, guidance, and oversight.
The corresponding team consists of Business Analysts (BA) and Developers that support the client in creating Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, such as dashboards, tables, analysis, graphs, reports, and data exports that help empower DPCAP leadership and the DoD contracting community to obtain reliable data in a user-friendly, self-service environment.
This position is located in our Arlington, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Duties and expectations include, but are not limited to the following:
- Gather Requirements: Work with clients to obtain, synthesize, and understand report requirements.
- Write and review documentation: Write Requirement Specification Documents (RSD) to provide to the Developers. Review other BAs’ RSDs and review Developer-produced documents to ensure they are Government-ready.
- Collaboration with Developers: Communicate with and support the development team as they interpret the requirements into design documents and develop the reports in a testing environment.
- Report Testing: Conduct functional testing of reports in staging and production environments to ensure that development efforts adhere to client vision, meet the requirements, and provide value to end-users.
- Team Communication: Coordinate tasks with the internal BA team; provide regular status updates to the Government; serve as a liaison between the Government and Developers to ensure mutual understanding and facilitate forward progress.
- Leadership Support: Document notes and action items from meetings and provide leadership deliverables, as necessary. Follow up and track actions to closure.
- Support non-reporting requirements: Write and maintain supplemental documents (e.g., user guides, style guides, and websites), and support other related tasks as they arise.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
Clearance: Secret
Education: Bachelor's Degree
2+ years in a business analysis, processes, procedures, functions, or product management role.
Experience working in a multi-functional environment alongside developers, database engineers, designers, and analysts.
Excellent communication skills, especially with regards to making technical details accessible and transparent.
Ability to translate technical findings to Senior Leaders in a manner that is easily understandable to those less experienced with analytics.
Excellent attention to detail, including documentation related concerns.
Demonstrated ability to take ownership of issues and drive to resolution, engaging support as necessary.
Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to ask questions, conduct research, make decisions and complete assigned work with sometimes ambiguous requirements.
Experience working on DoD Contracts.
Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:
Experience with Agile development, Scrum is a plus
Experience with Qlik Sense, DataBricks, or the Advana platform is a plus
Experience with SQL is a plus
Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Microsoft Excel
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $50,800.00 - $108,300.00.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well-being programs
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