Senior System Analyst :: Washington, DC (Hybrid)

Ark Solutions Inc is looking for Senior System Analyst!

Position: Senior System Analyst

Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)

Duration: 6+ Months and possibility of extension

Description:

Day-to-day Responsibilities:

Typically reports to Contractor IT Manager, to Systems Manager, or to Lead Project Manager.  Consults with COR, Government Case Managers, and trial attorneys as to system requirements and proposed technical approach to IT needs. 

Based on information gathered from such consultations, determines system and project requirements.

Based on definition of system requirements, designs entire system to meet those requirements. 

On smaller projects, may perform entire range of technical support, including program validations and testing, etc. 

Performs systems evaluations.

Makes presentations of findings, recommendations, and specifications in formal reports and in oral presentations. 

Also consults with COR regarding task orders, scheduling of work, personnel assignments, priorities and progress reporting; plans, staffs, schedules and develops cost estimates for work to be performed under task orders.

Reports on contract and task order progress. 

Directs and supervises personnel assigned to perform on task orders, ensuring conformance to work standards and ensuring that the technical design conforms to functional requirements.

Ensures successful completion of work, timeliness of deliverables, and quality control.

Prepares system/technical documentation.

Works under configuration management plan. 

Performs and supervises the technical aspects of the tasks.

Organizes and conducts user training sessions on systems developed.

Prepares training material and training manuals on systems developed.

 

Required Skills:

The ideal candidate has gov or commercial production full stack solution development and implementation experience using one or more of the follow tech stacks:

(1) Service Now where less computation customization is needed. (public facing in the future);

(2) Power apps Suit and backend data store (Power App, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power BI, SQL server, SharePoint online);

(3) Extending cloud.gov for any Public facing or future public facing (Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, CI/CD, Git Hub, Java scripting)

This is a senior level technical position, often the most senior level technical position for all work for a particular client component. Must demonstrate substantial, hands-on, successful experience in actually doing the work on the systems being used, usually at least five years of such experience. Other systems environments will require other specific sets of skills.

Requires broad knowledge of the Government's IT environments, including office automation networks, and PC and server-based databases and applications.

Experience in a litigation support environment extremely helpful.

Excellent oral and written communication skills are required. Supervisory experience very strongly preferred.

Ability to lead a technical team, and to give it direction, will be very important, as will the demonstrated ability to analyze the attorneys' needs, and to design and implement a whole system solution responsive to those needs. 

Undergraduate degree strongly preferred; preferably in the computer science or information management/technology disciplines.  

 

Education:

High school diploma or GED required.