Functional Specialist

FUNCTIONAL SPECIALIST

If you are looking for a challenging opportunity that allows you to develop and learn in a stable and growing organization…come joins us as a Functional Specialist at Horizon. Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) is a dynamic IT and Management Consulting firm based in the Washington, DC area and we are currently seeking a Functional Specialist for a full-time position remotely supporting the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

• This is designed for other than Information Technology functional expertise, but the expertise is required to support IT tasks. This is a non-management position.
• Provides task-unique functional expertise necessary to interpret requirements, ensure responsiveness and achieve successful performance.
• Advises IT consultants with the analysis, evaluation and implementation of systems and other IT tasks.
• Document functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Experience with preparing Software Engineering Model artifacts (e.g., DoDAF, infrastructure drawing, process flows, etc.)

 Required Skills / Experience:

• • Five (5) years relevant experience.
  • Expertise required to support various IT tasks and processes
  • Familiar with multiple methodologies to collect customer requirements (JARs, white board, interviews etc.) remotely using online tools including Microsoft Teams
  • Ability to understand business rules and business needs to formulate and document functional requirements
  • Collaborate with the technical team to translate and document functional requirements into technical specification, non-functional requirements, and component designs
  • Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to analyze and communicate solution requirements, ensuring that the final product meets functional specifications.
  • Collaborate with Developers and Test Specialists to formulate test cases to ensure alignment of the latter with requirements as required
  • Experience writing use cases and user stories
  • Working knowledge of multiple system development methodologies
  • Knowledge and experience assisting in the preparation of system documentation including infrastructure drawings, DoDAF artifacts, and documentation required for system accreditation
  • Working knowledge of Change Management and process improvements
  • Excellent understanding of Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) preparation
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize activities, and work under challenging timelines.

Desired :

• • DevOps concepts
  • Agile Scrum
  • Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
  • Understanding of the following concepts:

Preferred Tools :

• • Service Now
  • Jira
  • Microsoft suite

Relevant certification desired but not required:

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