About This Role
This Systems Analyst position involves supporting the IT portfolio management team for SAF/AQX at the Pentagon, focusing on streamlining systems and modernizing defense business systems. The role suits an experienced professional with a background in systems analysis, particularly in government or defense contexts.
Responsibilities
- Assist with requirements definition and refinement
- Perform process reengineering
- Evaluate Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) software
- Perform alternative system design reviews
- Evaluate emerging IT capabilities, including identifying and evaluating prototype solutions that insert Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning into daily business operations
- Present technical findings to the Government for consideration
- Assist with the benchmarking, operational capability demonstration, and integration of commercial program/portfolio management tools, source selection tools, and modeling/simulation tools
- Assist with Business Process Reengineering and Enterprise Architecture efforts to ensure compliance with National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requirements for defense business system modernizations exceeding $1 million
- Assist with the Business Capability Acquisition Cycle (BCAC) process, providing technical support in IT governance, security reviews, business requirements reviews, and overall IT audit compliance
- Provide technical and functional support to the SAF/AQX IT portfolio management team to assist in streamlining the systems portfolio
- Analyze, draft, and review proposed procedures and implementation plans aimed at significantly reducing the overall number of legacy systems and applications in the active portfolio
- Provide application consolidation support
- Identify and document critical technical considerations that impact system consolidation
- Compile data on leading-edge industry methods to realize successful consolidation
- Provide data analysis and systems mapping to support the Government's refinement of the SAF/AQ portfolio vision
- Assist in drafting updated strategies for systems-to-services transformations that increase operational efficiency and accelerate capability delivery
- Provide specialized technical support for enterprise architecture, application architecture, and emerging technologies consistent with the AQ vision and goals, including Oracle and Enterprise Business Systems (EBS)
- Analyze SAF/AQ lines of business, identify business functions, align Automated Information System (AIS) functions, map data categories, and identify Authoritative Data Sources (ADS) for each category, system, and line of business
- Analyze the current technical hosting environments, application portfolios, and active tools within the AQ ecosystem
- Support the development of technical gap analyses to identify target technologies, application modifications, and data strategies required to achieve the end-state architecture vision
- Support the prioritization of technology, application, and data initiatives
- Assist with the development of interim-state architectures that establish a phased, step-by-step path to achieve modernization goals
Requirements
- US Citizenship
- Active Secret Clearance
- Master's or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience (Computer/Systems Engineering)
- 8 years of relevant experience
- ITIL and/or CISSP certification
Important Details
- Schedule: Onsite at the Pentagon
About the Company
Kalman & Company is seeking to hire for this position, which is tied to a government proposal.
