Capital Project Management Information System (cpmis) Specialist (business Analyst Iii)

Job Announcement

Since 1977, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) has served the Fairfax County community by enhancing mobility, safety, and the quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors through planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, and sustaining a multimodal transportation system.

FCDOT is seeking a motivated Business Analyst III with experiences in system administration, application life cycle support, business analysis, and project management to join the Coordination and Funding Division. Under general supervision of the Business Analyst IV, independently provides technical and IT programmatic guidance and leadership across FCDOT units to identify and evaluate IT needs to establish and sustain enterprise portfolio management controls on IT initiatives to improve holistic planning, solution quality, design integration, and implementation coordination. Responsibilities include:

• Driving business process analysis and requirement discovery to develop functional and nonfunctional system specifications, identify opportunities for continuous operations improvement, conduct solution research and analysis, to formulate well supported technical solution proposals.
• Serving as the FCDOT’s primary Capital Project Management Information System (CPMIS) system administrator to provide end-to-end application ownership and knowledge management expertise to ensure business needs are satisfied.
• Supporting business end-users, providing system administration, and maintaining and re-engineering business processes, system policies and procedures to align and optimize application utilization.
• Building and managing relationships with Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES), SaaS provider, Department of Information Technology (DIT), and business end-users to coordinate system problem/incident resolution, change management, and provide project management leadership for major and minor system enhancements and maintenance activities.
• Developing and delivering clear and well supported information and training to business end-users.
• Monitoring system usage to ensure compliance with licenses and county policies, and development of monthly KPI metrics.
• Partnering with DPWES, Information Technology System Architect (ITSA) and CPMIS vendor to successfully implement the system and ensure business requirements are met.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

For more information on the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, please click here .

Employment Standards

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the following:
(Click on the aforementioned link to learn how Fairfax County interprets equivalencies for "Any combination, experience, and training equivalent to")
Bachelor's degree in business, computer science or a field related to the department where the IT services are being used: plus four years of experience analyzing business processes and/or developing/maintaining the main business system, technical platform or a related system.

CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES REQUIRED:
Not applicable.

NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• All newly hired employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (two weeks after the last required dose) as a condition of employment or obtain approval of a medical or religious exemption prior to their start date. Proof of an exemption or vaccination status will be required during the pre-employment onboarding process. New employees who obtain an exemption from the vaccine mandate for medical or sincerely held religious beliefs may be subject to a weekly testing requirement. Vaccinated employees and employees with a medical or religious exemption will complete the attestation online on their first day of employment or shortly thereafter.
• The appointee to this position will be required to complete a criminal background check and a credit history check to the satisfaction of the employer.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Considerable knowledge of the capabilities of various computer platforms functioning in centralized, distributed, client server, and stand-alone environments
• Considerable knowledge of the capabilities of information technology software, hardware, and network communication technology
• Knowledge of effective processes, methods, techniques to analyze and evaluate business operations
• Ability to analyze and evaluate administrative processes and procedures for automation purposes
• Knowledge of effective project management methods, practices and techniques
• Ability to translate technical terminology into terms understandable to management and employees
• Ability to establish and maintain effective business relationships
• Ability to train employees in the use of hardware and software

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Ability to lift up to 15 pounds. Visual acuity is required to read data on computer monitor. Must communicate with others. Job is generally sedentary. Ability to use keyboard-driven equipment. All duties performed with or without reasonable accommodations.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:
Panel interview and may include a practical exercise.

The population of Fairfax County is very diverse where 39.8% of residents speak a language other than English at home (Spanish, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indo-European, and others) and we encourage candidates bilingual in English and a foreign language to apply to this opportunity.

Fairfax County Government prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, political affiliation, or military status in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of its workforce.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact 703-324-4900 for assistance. TTY 703-222-7314. EEO/AA/TTY.