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Full time
Herndon, VA
Posted 2 years ago

Responsibilities

The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to:

  • Business Analysis
  • Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client organization.
  • The ability to utilize the product vision to define the requirements for the product.
  • Supports planning and prioritization of the product feature backlog and development for the product solution
  • Supports creation of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Supports backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
  • Actively supports user acceptance test case development and testing
  • Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
  • Facilitate and negotiate sometimes competing interests of Business Owner and Technical teams
  • Supports the design of meaningful data reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations
  • The ability to understand the business and translate the business requirements into user stories.
  • The ability to analyze the business need to create, update, and manage backlog stories.
  • The ability to understand and explain business needs to the Development team, and the ability to explain why and how the system is built to business stakeholders
  • The ability to manage competing priorities and escalate critical issues
  • Understand the technical composition of the system and the interconnections with supporting systems.
  • Provide logistical, knowledge management, and communications support for 
  • Record meeting notes and provide clear and concise syntheses of meetings and events as needed.
  • Conduct research as needed on key technical topics.
  • Prepare cost estimates, modifications, and/or contractual agreements.
  • Liaise across all programs and portfolios to increase cohesion across project.
  • Seek opportunities to identify more creative, efficient and effective ways to engage audiences and facilitate enhanced learning communities.

Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst

  • Assist with leading Monitoring and Evaluation activities including data collection, preparing data for monthly and annual reports and assess progress towards project objectives.
  • Assist with managing and improving quantitative data collection systems that facilitate project reporting.
  • When needed, assist with perform qualitative data collection through key informant interviews, ranging from Washington DC practitioners, to USAID Mission staff in country.
  • Identify and support activities to develop and test best practices for this project.
  • Share project monitoring and evaluation learning with the project team and its stakeholders.

Qualifications

The candidate for this position must have:

  • Effective communication and leadership skills
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Thorough understanding of agile processes. CSM certification is a plus
  • Experience writing user stories, preferably following Behavior Driven Development (BDD) principles
  • Experience working with tools such as JIRA or VSTS
  • Ability to read data model documentation
  • Ability to develop basic data queries and reports

Education and Other Skills

Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems or a related field or have gained experience equivalent to this educational requirement

Job Features

Job CategoryTechnical Specialist
Security Clearance RequiredYes
Travel RequiredNo

Responsibilities The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to: Business Analysis Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client organization. The ability to ...

Full time
Herndon, VA
Posted 2 years ago

Responsibilities

The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to:

  • Business Analysis
  • Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client organization.
  • The ability to utilize the product vision to define the requirements for the product.
  • Supports planning and prioritization of the product feature backlog and development for the product solution
  • Supports creation of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Supports backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
  • Actively supports user acceptance test case development and testing
  • Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
  • Facilitate and negotiate sometimes competing interests of Business Owner and Technical teams
  • Supports the design of meaningful data reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations
  • The ability to understand the business and translate the business requirements into user stories.
  • The ability to analyze the business need to create, update, and manage backlog stories.
  • The ability to understand and explain business needs to the Development team, and the ability to explain why and how the system is built to business stakeholders
  • The ability to manage competing priorities and escalate critical issues
  • Understand the technical composition of the system and the interconnections with supporting systems.
  • Provide logistical, knowledge management, and communications support for 
  • Record meeting notes and provide clear and concise syntheses of meetings and events as needed.
  • Conduct research as needed on key technical topics.
  • Prepare cost estimates, modifications, and/or contractual agreements.
  • Liaise across all programs and portfolios to increase cohesion across project.
  • Seek opportunities to identify more creative, efficient and effective ways to engage audiences and facilitate enhanced learning communities.

Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst

  • Assist with leading Monitoring and Evaluation activities including data collection, preparing data for monthly and annual reports and assess progress towards project objectives.
  • Assist with managing and improving quantitative data collection systems that facilitate project reporting.
  • When needed, assist with perform qualitative data collection through key informant interviews, ranging from Washington DC practitioners, to USAID Mission staff in country.
  • Identify and support activities to develop and test best practices for this project.
  • Share project monitoring and evaluation learning with the project team and its stakeholders.

Qualifications

The candidate for this position must have:

  • Effective communication and leadership skills
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Thorough understanding of agile processes. CSM certification is a plus
  • Experience writing user stories, preferably following Behavior Driven Development (BDD) principles
  • Experience working with tools such as JIRA or VSTS
  • Ability to read data model documentation
  • Ability to develop basic data queries and reports

Education and Other Skills

Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems or a related field or have gained experience equivalent to this educational requirement

Job Features

Job CategoryTechnical Specialist
Security Clearance RequiredYes
Travel RequiredNo

Responsibilities The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to: Business Analysis Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client organization. The ability to ...

Full time
Herndon, VA, Remote-temporarily
Posted 2 years ago

Responsibilities

The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to:

  • Support the design and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions developed in Tableau and other tools and services in the Microsoft Azure environment.
  • Design, upgrade, and improve data warehouse schema and other semantic BI data sources.
  • Design and develop ETL data functions to transfer organizational data into data warehouse environments.
  • Develop and tune complex SQL queries for enterprise reports and dashboards.
  • Code advanced SQL for Database Views and Stored Procedures.
  • Resolve highly complex issues, conduct advanced research, and recommend innovations.
  • Provide technical support and assistance to other team members.
  • Assume the role of task coordinator on complex tasks support by multiple work teams.

Qualifications

The candidate for this position must have:

  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience developing and maintaining databases and reports
  • Experience as a BI or enterprise reports developer
  • Experience in enterprise database or data warehouse design and development
  • Experience with developing automated data extraction, transformation, and loading processes
  • Working knowledge of BI technologies, preferably including SQL Server and Tableau/Power BI
  • Experience in developing complex SQL queries
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Good communication skills

Education and Other Skills

Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems or a related field or have gained experience equivalent to this educational requirement

Job Features

Job CategoryTechnical Specialist
Security Clearance RequiredNo
Travel RequiredNo

Responsibilities The duties for this position may include, but are not limited to: Support the design and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions developed in Tableau and other tools an...