Everforth ECS is seeking a Functional Analyst to work in our Quantico, VA office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract additional funding.
Are you ready to play a crucial role in supporting cutting-edge technology for federal law enforcement and scientific organizations? ECS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Functional Business Analyst to help define and steer solutions and process improvements for our customers and teams.
The scope of this program is to enhance enterprise IT services and solutions for our FBI customer to provide best-in-class end-user support. We drive improvements in the operations, management, maintenance and integration of services across multiple networks, systems, and applications to enable and enhance mission operations for law enforcement capabilities. The ideal candidate will be a fast learner, able to effectively engage resources and work across teams to decompose large, complex problems into workable solutions. An aptitude for learning and strategic planning, and the ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, are a must.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Interacting with stakeholders including the federal government unit representatives, governance, and ECS service desk, operations, and engineering teams to understand the needs of end users and the enterprise
- Develop presentation materials for executive-level briefings to explain program, status, issues, requirements, justification and impact of proposed resourcing
- Collaborate with Configuration Management to audit Jira, provide quality assurance support to ensure proper linkages and entries, and collaborate with the team to resolve issues
- Collaborate with other teams to understand how production system changes may affect development and testing efforts
- Proven ability to aggregate and analyze large datasets from primary database systems, identify key trends, anomalies, and insights to inform strategic decision-making.
- Skilled in developing and implementing data validation processes and quality controls to maintain data integrity and accuracy in reports and outputs.
- Decomposing functional requirements into appropriate Kanban cards or scrum units (e.g., Epics, Features, User Stories)
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies and improve Agile practices throughout iterative releases
- Coordinate monthly/sprint reporting and communication
- Support software testing, including executing test scripts as needed
- Support continuous innovation by implementing the best practices to improve technology, tools, and processes to increase team efficiency and technical execution
- Track, communicate, and report on issues and risks using reporting guidelines
- Train end users on new solutions and processes
- US citizenship with Top Secret clearance
- A minimum of five years’ experience analyzing and documenting complex systems and applications
- Experience maintaining a backlog for an Agile/Scrum team
- Experience collaborating with customer representatives, program management, and quality managers to define and document requirements in small increments
- Experience decomposing features into user stories
- Experience writing Acceptance Criteria for user stories to define system functionality
- Demonstrated multi-tasking ability, problem solving skills, and a consistent record of on time delivery and customer service
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated aptitude for working in a fast-paced, dynamic, matrixed work environment
- Ability to elicit and shape work requirements, as well as decompose complex challenges into actionable plans based on an understanding of higher-level objectives
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills, including customer and employee engagement and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain English
Skills Required
- Experience aggregating and analyzing large datasets from primary database systems
- Developing and implementing data validation processes and quality controls
- Experience with Jira and collaborating with Configuration Management to audit issues and linkages
- Experience decomposing functional requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories (Kanban/Scrum)
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies and improve Agile practices
- Support software testing and execute test scripts
- Train end users on new solutions and processes
- US citizenship with Top Secret clearance
- Minimum of five years' experience analyzing and documenting complex systems and applications
- Experience maintaining a backlog for an Agile/Scrum team
- Experience collaborating with customer representatives, program management, and quality managers to define and document requirements
- Experience decomposing features into user stories and writing Acceptance Criteria
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain English
- Demonstrated multi-tasking ability, problem solving skills, and consistent on-time delivery
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
