Windward Consulting is at the forefront of Service-Centric IT. With strategic consulting, unparalleled technical expertise and our proven Windward Service-Centric IT RoadMap, we help our clients align the core competencies of process, organization, information and technology to run the most sensitive and mission-critical IT environments in the world.
If you are looking for an opportunity to be involved with a team of individuals who are working for one of our cutting-edge clients solving complex technical challenges, then we are looking for you. We are looking for people who are passionate about technology and have a "roll up their sleeves mentality." Here at Windward we offer numerous opportunities to expand your experience in various areas depending upon your aptitude and interests. Our employees are not only passionate and driven but strive to ensure customer quality is delivered consistently and effectively.
Position Summary
The Sponsor requires contractual support to perform business analyst functions, with some development and O&M activities for the Business Management Database (BMD) application.
Job Description
The Sponsor provides business operations support to identify, collect, store, and visualize business information needed for enterprise decision-making. The Contractor Team supports BMD by performing development and O&M, maintaining integrations, and enhancing system capabilities. Responsibilities include:
- Stakeholder coordination to solicit requirements or details for existing requirement requests, analyze said input and decompose into actual development stories/tasks (BA Role)
- Performing O&M activities and implementing development updates driven by changing Sponsor requirements and system changes.
- Testing new feature development, fixes, and updates to application infrastructure (VMIs, java versions, etc)
- Architecture of development solution to meet large requirements
- Maintaining system documentation, SOPs, guides, and FAQs.
- Streamlining workflow processes for an employee dashboard covering order management requirements.
- Ensuring adherence to security and data protection requirements.
- Supporting application development and system administration within an AWS multi-zone cloud environment.
- Managing and resolving infrastructure issues affecting performance or availability.
- Developing an API between BMD and ServiceNow (bi-directional flow of requirement numbers/statuses and other custom API needs).
- Maintaining AWS Cloud assets, executing build processes, and ingesting Sponsor design/development requirements.
Location and Qualification Requirements
- Work to be performed on-site in Fairfax, VA
- Requires active DoD TS/SCI Clearance
Skillset Requirements
Mandatory
- Agile methodology
- DevOps practices (sprint planning, CI, testing)
- User acceptance testing
- Delivery of minimum viable increments
- Visualization/reporting tools (e.g., Tableau)
- Java development
- Full-stack experience across UI, business logic, and database layers
- AWS experience (SWF, Data Pipeline, RDS, CloudWatch, EC2, EBS, S3)
- AWS services (EC2, KMS, patching)
- Linux administration
- Data ETL or Perl scripting
- Apache HTTPD, Linux Shell, or PowerShell scripting
- DevOps tools (GitHub, Subversion, Jenkins, CruiseControl, Maven, Artifactory, Confluence)
Desired
- Networking Technology knowledge, as well as network design concepts
- Familiarity with enterprise billing systems and accounting principles
- ServiceNow experience
- AngularJS experience
- Sponsor security requirements and data protection
- AWS and additional security tools
- Project management principles
- Integration with customer applications via web services
- Sponsor security/accreditation processes
Windward strives to attract and retain the best individuals and provide an environment where they can all grow professionally and build a rewarding career. We continually strive to create an environment that balances work life and offers benefits that will enhance the compensation package. We offer Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance and AD&D, as well as the option to purchase additional Life Insurance and AD&D, Paid Time Off, Personal Leave, Holidays, 401(k) plan with company match and work/life balance.
Windward IT Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital or veteran status.
