Systems Analyst (Expert) Job# 584

Position 16a: Systems Analyst (Expert-Level)

Overall Assignment Description: 

Expert-level Systems Analysts analyze internal and external customer Enterprise IT needs, research 
and recommend hardware, software and process/procedural solutions to Enterprise IT problems; 
analyze science, engineering, business, and all other data processing problems for application to the 
Enterprise IT environment; analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or 
improve existing IT capabilities and workflows; provide adopt/adapt/buy recommendations for 
commercial/government developed products; and conduct business case/cost-benefit analysis for 
Enterprise IT recommendations. 

Duties may include: 
• Analyzes potential IT solutions to determine their application in existing or proposed Enterprise 
architecture
• Recommends potential IT solutions 
• Advises on new techniques and estimated costs associated with new or revised programs and 
utilities - taking into consideration personnel, time, and hardware requirements and makes tradeoff analyses
• Reviews documentation, describing system specifications and operating instructions, and revise 
existing processes and procedures to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data 
handling, conversion, input/output requirements and storage. 
• Confers with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs a 
computer program is to address. 
• Consults with management to ensure agreement on system principles. 
• Interviews or surveys analysts and other IT users, observes job performance or analyzes the job to 
determine what information is processed and how it is processed. 
• Analyzes information processing or computation needs to recommend IT solutions, using 
techniques such as structured analysis, data modeling and information engineering. 
• Assesses the usefulness of pre-developed application packages and adapts them to a user 
environment. 
• Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on IT solution 
implementation. 

Skills and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields 
such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, 
Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM 
degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
• Expert-level experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: 
DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, or systems engineering of large complex 
System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, 
or hybrid infrastructures.
• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as 
Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer 
Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree 
program.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Software Development Framework certification.
• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence 
technologies.
• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, 
geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience