Automation Analyst jobs in Newport News, VA

Thompson Gray is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic to support the United States Army Futures Command. The position Swill be responsible for the design, development, testing, and production of automations using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. The developer will support a Federal client on site with flexible remote opportunities. Successful candidates will have excellent communication, research, and analytical skills in addition to the following skills and experience.

Job Duties:

• Participate in project meetings with subject matter experts and stakeholders to understand data specific needs.
• Analyze legacy data systems, entity relationships and system interfaces to detect data patterns, anomalies, and trends to develop business requirements
• Gather requirements and conduct process mapping
• Develop and generate data queries for data extractions and or transformations.
  Generate data views and reports to support end users visualize results
• Work with cross functional technical teams, business analysts and key stakeholders to determine viable process candidates for automation, the mapping and modeling of process automation and maintaining the environment to ensure it remains highly available for business-critical processes.
• Develop and maintain automation development schedule; brief the project manager on a regular basis to track completion of automation milestones.
• Enforce Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) usage and best practice adoption and usage throughout the development process, including proper execution of exception handling, metric reporting, use of global variables, and other 'wrapper' techniques.
• Lead and participate in the design, development, testing, and troubleshooting of all automations.
• Complete and review documentation for library and production automations; create, manage, and maintain file folders. Upload final versions of documents into the management tool.
• Write test reports and conduct testing when necessary.
• Manage and run automations in production, as required. Run the robot manager software and manage the server environment.
• Provide metrics on testing and production activities as necessary.
• Leverage presentation expertise to present complex information to non-technical audiences and update senior leadership in the command

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be a US citizen able to obtain a Secret-level clearance. Candidates with a current Secret clearance are highly desired.
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science or Information Technology preferred) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics
• Programming experience with applications such as .NET, C#, HTML/CSS, Javascript, ETL, Visual Studio, and SQL databases. Expert in Microsoft Excel (VBA, macros). Coursework may be substituted for work experience.
• Strong communication skills and ability to brief Senior Civilian and Military personnel.
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  Thompson Gray is an Equal Opportunity Employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation national origin, protected veteran status or disability. Thompson Gray, Inc. welcomes minority and veteran applicants.