Tulk LLC is hiring: Business Analyst Level 3 in Saint Louis

Business Analyst Level 3

TULK is a leading boutique consulting firm providing technology and management consulting services to the US Federal Government. Our expert team assists Defense and National Security clients in acquiring, designing, managing, and developing advanced technology systems and business practices to advance their missions. We offer tailored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, long and short-term disability, flexible work schedules, cash bonuses, access to technology, tuition reimbursement, 401k, and more.

We are looking for applicants with a broad range of skills and interests to join our team. At TULK, we carefully match our employees with assignments that best fit their unique skill sets and career goals. If you're interested in the position below, we encourage you to apply and take the next step in your career with TULK.

About the Work

The Geomatics Office (SFN) provides Geomatics content, functional management, and analysis to ensure GEOINT accuracy. SFN’s mission is to enable GEOINT accuracy through geodetic, geophysical, and photogrammetric sciences and content. SFN’s functions include the following:

• Provide for maintenance and currency of World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) content, to include the WGS 84 reference frame, the World Magnetic Model, Earth Gravitational Model, and controlled imagery.
• Provide functional management for all users of Geomatics content. Provide datum transformations, coordinate conversions and other geodetic analysis to ensure that all GEOINT is interoperable with WGS 84.
• Provide and maintain required Geomatics content in the form of Foundation GEOINT Focus Group (FG) surfaces including topographic elevation, gravity, geotechnical soils and crosscountry mobility.
• Provide multi-sensor, geodetic, geophysical, geotechnical and photogrammetric analysis. Provide geodetic and geophysical survey support to IC and DoD.
• Provide controlled imagery content, functional management, and develop delivery mechanisms to support targeting and FG needs in line with the agency vision.

Advises, assists, leads, manages, works and/or supports Business Operations; development, review, coordination, adjudication, promulgation, communication of measurable business processes; Subject Matter Expert development, coordination and maintenance of all assigned process and procedures; SME development, coordination and maintenance of all process diagrams, SOPs, Checklists, etc.; automate and visualize business processes. Participate in NGA planning activities with Mission Partners, and development contractor sponsored Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and working groups. Develop and update business plans, advocacy briefings, and schedules in accordance with agency policy. Develop and coordinate Mission Plans and agency approval documentation.

Your Duties

• Assist the National Center for Geospatial Intelligence Standards (NCGIS) and NGA’s Source Operations & Management Office (SF) in the development and maintenance of World Geodetic System (WGS) and Geomatics standardization artifacts for topics related to geospatial information including Space, imagery, and imagery intelligence.
• Support the NCGIS and SF with developing and documenting WGS and GEOMATICS standardization artifacts required for the end-user in the collection, production, dissemination, and exploitation of GEOINT.
• Serve as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to the World Geodetic Systems and Geomatics – Focus Group (WGSG FG) and the Geospatial-Intelligence Standards Working Group (GWG) providing guidance as to the mandating of WGS and Geomatics standards in the DoD IT Standards Registry (DISR) and the IC Standards registry (ICSR).
• Serve as consultants for GWG in defining life-cycle requirements for WGS and Geomatics standards and assist in the development of Technical Standards.
• Coordinate efforts with the GWG, the WGSG FG, SFN Senior Leadership, Transformation and Content Management Office (CMO) points of contact, Domain Leads, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Information Technology Services Directorate (T) personnel, and Online GEOINT Services (OGS) personnel.
• Assist in the:
  • development, documentation, and maintenance of domain-specific standardization artifacts.
  • Standardization artifacts consist of but not limited to; standards, implementation profiles, product specifications, handbooks, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instructions, and implementation guidance.
  • Artifacts are required for GEOINT collection, production, and dissemination and promote interoperability with applicable DoD, IC, and international standards.
• Coordinate activities across focus groups (FGs) as applicable, and provide guidance to the NSG/NGA with respect to implementation and compliance criteria.
• Support the development of web capabilities, enabling online, on-demand access of standardization products.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of Intellipedia and IntelDocs pages in support of online, on-demand efforts and Standards development.
• Ensure compliance to web services architecture for the NSG, NGA, DoD, IC, Federal sector, as well as international defense and civil standardization development organizations and standards setting organizations.
• Incorporate program metrics, analyst progress/performance metrics, resource management, and project milestones and timelines where possible.
• Perform internal and external briefing in a clear and concise manner to communicate information to Senior Leadership, Standardization Community and Local SMEs
• Assist SMEs in communicating complex topics to layperson(s).

Required Skills and Experience

• Top Secret SCI (TS/SCI) Security Clearance
• US Citizenship

• Demonstrated experience in troubleshooting and problem identification.
• Demonstrated experience with web-based collaborative platforms such as SharePoint.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating and communicating with Subject matter experts to produce official documentations.
• Demonstrated experience in building complex formulas within Microsoft Excel to extract data from large spreadsheets.
• Demonstrated experience with Adobe PDF software.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Team
• Demonstrated experience briefing clear and concise information to conveying project progress and innovations.
• Demonstrated experience to interpret or seek an understanding of complex topics or ideas.

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience with Geospatial Intelligence Standards such as working groups, registry and committees.
• Demonstrated experience publishing to registries to Intelligence Community (IC) or Department of Defense.
• Demonstrated experience (in one of the skill sets) with Geodesy, Selenodosy, Global Positioning System (GPS)/Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Geodetic survey, Geophysical data, Terrain data, Photogrammetry, Imagery data, or GIS.
• Demonstrated experience with database design, relational model building, or practical knowledge of applicable data/information management or presentation standards to support Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliance or Business analytics
• Demonstrated experience integrating data from legacy systems.