Overview

Provide technical and functional expertise in support of the strategic technology and business innovation programs. Analyze business needs and risks to develop and implement innovative solutions that leverage modern systems and functionality. Work with business teams to understand their pain points, risks, and needs related to technology and process redesign. Identifies, coordinates, documents, and implements business requirements by determining solutions that enhance business systems, as well as provides support to business processes. Partner with business, and technology teams to drive strategy and ideation, planning, and execution of activities across product domains with risk/control and process redesign mindsets. Support senior management in developing and executing short to long-term strategic and risk mitigation plans. Considered a key stakeholder and contributor on moderately complex technology and process redesign initiatives. Support full lifecycle project implementation through agile delivery methods. This is a highly collaborative role, where success requires diving deep and building relationships with stakeholders/partners/vendors to support business and technology outcomes.

• Execute priorities and goals for complex technology and business process redesign projects that align with department/organizational objectives
• Leverage product life cycle management and agile practices through change management, risk mitigation, and communications
• Apply knowledge of technical solutions and processes; serve as change agent to champion innovation in operations, processes, and procedures and develop best practices
• Provide forward thinking technical expertise in current and emerging technologies, trends, and practices
• Evaluate operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Analyze information, requirements, data, work quality, work methods, processes, service specific practices, standards and metrics/statistics
• Uses elicitation techniques to gather information at the right level of detail and scope to represent all of the stakeholder's needs
• Analyze, define and document technical design for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating systems environment, interface with other systems, internal and external controls and output
• Identifying business requirements (e.g., needs, objectives, functions, features, input and output)
• Develop, recommend and document adjustments to workflow to streamline processes
• Coordinate integration of solutions with existing applications; identify and resolve existing conflicts to ensures compatibility
• Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant industry standards, best practices, business processes and technology used within related business areas to ensure compliance with policy, vendor contractual requirements, procedures, processes and standards
• Involved in cross-organizational task groups concerning new automated systems, products and/or services
• Work with project teams to plan, coordinate and rollout software change/release to Controlled Testing and Production, obtain required approvals as scheduled, and transition project to Production
• Interact with other ISD staff, business units (end users) in problem resolution efforts
• Partner with other business units and vendors to improve procedures, resolve problems, and implement initiatives; presents conclusions and recommendations to management
• Implement new/enhanced products, services and/or operational changes
• Identify and communicate key responsibilities and practices, evaluate results, and provide leadership and guidance to ensure successful implementation of business unit projects
• Interpret results of analysis; present recommendations, alternatives and implications
• Write requirements and define editorial workflow for business owner projects
• Develop and oversee project plans and roadmaps that outline preventative and corrective actions necessary to remediate control deficiencies, maximizing effectiveness and mitigating future exposure
• Ensure preventative, detective, and corrective controls are properly identified and documented
• Develop test plans, test criteria, scenarios and documentation; ensure acceptance of delivered solutions
• Conduct and/or facilitate user acceptance testing to include developing and executing test cases, communication with project teams, validating and documenting results
• Apply and communicate changes and new trends in systems/technology
• Represent the business unit in identifying, analyzing and communicating system solutions
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify development opportunities and recommend applicable business solutions
• Research emerging technologies and recommend solutions that align with business goals
• Monitor performance of systems to ensure continued systems efficiency
• Collaborate with key partners in development and delivery of solutions
• Perform other duties as assigned duties as assigned

• Experience in problem resolution including determining root cause, scope and scale of issues
• Experience in leading collaborative work teams
• Experience in leading projects and/or initiatives of small to medium scope
• Experience in managing multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals
• Experience that demonstrates the ability to research, compile, and document data, business processes, and workflow
• Navy Federal Project Portfolio Management (PPM) knowledge
• Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies and procedures Bank Secrecy
• Effective research, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Effective organizational, planning and time management skills
• Effective skill following, interpreting and applying relevant data/instructions to guidelines, procedures, practices and regulations
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Effective database and presentation software skills
• Effective skill identifying and analyzing business requirements and recommending solutions
• Collaborative in interactions with team members, senior management, and vendors with diplomacy and thoughtfulness
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field, or the equivalent combination of training, education and experience
• Agile, CSM, SAFe or related certifications (Preferred)