Project Overview:

Spatial Front provides IT solutions to federal, state, and local governments and the private sector. SFI is tasked by our customer to oversee the IT system operation and maintenance of grants systems and the modernization and enhancement of grants systems and applications.

All work is performed in the Eastern Time Zone for busy clients located in the DC Metro area.

The Grants Business Systems Analyst - SME will provide Program and Project Management support for the contract, performance of system operation, maintenance and modernization, and enhancement of grants management systems for the achievement of the client's mission. The Grants Business Systems Analyst - SME will support and work at the direction of the Program and Project Manager to execute the following specific responsibilities:

• Assess the suitability of information systems and software applications in terms of their intended outcomes and liaise with end users, software vendors, and programmers to achieve organizational and mission objectives
• Analyze the business workflow and associated processes and document the business objectives for each organization
• Derive high-level IT-related system requirements to provide the necessary computing capabilities for client systems
• Decompose high-level system requirements into hardware and software technical requirements
• Perform Requirements Management functions to identify, develop, and monitor the implementation of the required new system capabilities
• Support software developers and testers operating in an agile development environment to ensure that requirements are allocated to the proper releases and sprints and are successfully validated during User Acceptance Testing before the deployment of application upgrades to the end users
• Support systems engineering-related technical/cost/risk/benefit tradeoff studies that evaluate technical alternative solutions based on pre-defined evaluation and scoring criteria
• Support end-user training
• Support Business Process Reengineering initiatives
• Participate in business and technical process improvement activities
• Perform stakeholder management
• Review technical documentation and author technical content for requirements-related documentation

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business, Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or a similar discipline. Substitution of experience for education may be made where four (4) years of additional experience will be equivalent to a four (4) year degree
• Minimum of 8 years of general business analyst experience in support of government program and project management operations
• Minimum of 4 years demonstrated experience in the Job Functions described above
• Experience with the following business applications to extract and report performance data: Serena Dimensions Configuration, Jira, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Excel. PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools.
• Substitution of experience for education may be made where four (4) years of additional experience will be equivalent to a four (4) year degree.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and excellent quality control discipline.
• Experience with federal grants programs and understanding of the federal grants business lifecycle.
• PMI Project Management Professional Certification

Certifications (Desired):

• PMI Project Management Professional

Additional Information:

• To meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be authorized to work in the US.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment, and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and require fingerprinting.

Other Information:

• The salary for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 annually
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.