Anika Systems is a fast growing, woman-owned small business that specializes in providing innovative IT solutions for federal government agencies. Our expertise lies in accelerating delivery in Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation, Application Development, and IT Modernization. We are currently expanding our Federal team and are looking for a Governance SME. This opportunity is 100% remote.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance.
The IT Governance SME will contribute to change management, program management, organizational development, business analysis, data call process development, and performance management tasks. The candidate will assist with the development and maintenance of the client’s IT Portfolio framework and IT Governance programs. These activities include project feasibility, performance measurement, project management, and organizational development.
Responsibilities:
- Provide program support for IT planning and governance processes that align IT to support successful execution of client’s vision and strategic goals, including the CIO, Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), and subsidiary IT investment owner groups
- Help facilitate Investment Owner meetings
- Support the collection of IT ideas from across client and fiscal year planning
- Help develop and improve client’s IT governance program by recommending enhancements that will improve stakeholder engagement, investment prioritization, and oversight
- Organizational Development analysis to support As-is and To-be models with recommendations to improve the organizations efficiencies and effectiveness in full utilization of resources and delivering quality products to the customer
- Experience utilizing IT Portfolio Management methodologies and processes, tools, strategic planning, trend analysis, organizational reporting and presentations, and identification of performance indicators for the purpose of performance measurements
- Experience writing alternative analyses, business cases or point papers based on research, analysis, and observations
- Experience with the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process and other IT investment processes and requirements
- Experience in strategic Enterprise Architecture (EA) analysis, including CPIC, EA, and program management requirements alignment with Strategic Planning
- Implement a continuous process of identifying, selecting, and managing a portfolio of projects in alignment with key performance metrics and strategic business objectives.
- Provide recommendations, processes, procedures, writing policies, and support in an IT Portfolio Management program.
- Provide alternate methods to manage IT Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management activities across the IT organization with an innovative solution to forecast future benefits of a comprehensive IT portfolio, to include IT Technical Roadmaps and Business Roadmaps based on Government mandates.
- Conduct organizational level reporting linking technologies to outcomes and mission-related tangible and intangible benefits
- Experience assessing, interpreting, and providing guidance regarding federal government budget and reporting directives and instructions
- Expertise in Risk Analysis to support project managers in identifying project risk, identifying potential impacts of those risks, and crafting risk mitigation strategies.
- Experience facilitating work sessions and conducting training sessions
- Conduct business and technical analysis by facilitating working group sessions and engaging working group members to understand and document customer stakeholder functional and technical needs
- Assess customer current business processes and functions and make recommendations for improved functional services
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research and analysis to support work assignments for meeting the deliverable objective
- Compile research, findings, and other information into written formats such as white papers, reports, presentations, and other forms of technical documentation
- Perform IT strategic/organizational planning, organizational development, portfolio and program management, IT investment management, IT governance
- Provide Weekly and Monthly Status Reporting
- Provide meeting support (facilitate meetings, prepare agenda, prepare project briefings, present to the stakeholders, document, and distribute meeting minutes, and track actions)
- Participate in project planning and schedule development/maintenance activities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience in writing materials relevant to organization, project, and task goals and presenting material to senior Government officials
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer or Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field or technical discipline
- 10+ years of experience in business analysis, investment management and Federal consulting.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP and/or PMI Professional in Business Analysis PMI-BPA
