What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Project Portfolio Business Analyst position at Pantex?
Location: Pantex Amarillo Campus
Job Title: IT Project Portfolio Business Analyst
Career Level From: Senior Associate
Career Level To: Senior Associate
Organization: IT Business Operations (51355096)
Job Specialty: Business Analysis
Job Title: IT Project Portfolio Business Analyst
Career Level From: Senior Associate
Career Level To: Senior Associate
Organization: IT Business Operations (51355096)
Job Specialty: Business Analysis
What You'll Do
Mission - Pantex has several national security missions that protect our country and our allies around the world. At Pantex, our employees provide the nuclear deterrent for our nation and allies, ensure our nation’s nuclear stockpile is strong and viable, and support the stockpile as the High Explosives Center of Excellence. Our team uses world-class skill, ambition, and vision to meet our missions on a daily basis. Join us in any of our engaging disciplines and do the most important work of your career.
Culture - Much more than a place to work, this is a congenial professional setting where people work hard, interact with ease, and often become lifelong friends. At Pantex, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime, moving from one area to another as you gain new skills that align with your growing interests and professional strengths. You’ll be inspired by our strong feeling of camaraderie. From the first day, you’ll know that your coworkers have your back and you will have theirs. We have a shared mission and feel an urgency to get it done and done right. We are all proud patriots sharing our talents to work on a common goal whose legacy spans decades and continents.
Benefits - We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Also, take advantage of our onsite cafeteria. Much more than a workplace, at Pantex, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
What You'll Do
The IT Project Portfolio Business Analyst is responsible performing resource capacity planning and performing up-front analysis on IT projects, including business customer interactions, and working with IT management and staff to facilitate new project intake. The IT Portfolio Business Analyst must be able to coordinate a dynamic and complex IT portfolio in a fast-paced environment and align resources with prioritized work.
- Facilitate the continuous review of the IT Portfolio to ensure allocations and priorities are in alignment with the business imperatives and goals
- Perform resource capacity planning of IT resources across all IT projects, predicting and forecasting the need for IT resources using tools to measure it against future project demands
- Develop and maintain an IT portfolio of projects and programs using a toolset to create roadmaps and convey resource constraints and portfolio health across all projects
- Conduct evaluations with customers; analyze needs; manage priorities; conduct conceptual evaluations; review project demands; manage work-planning and resourcing
- Prepare and present project requests for regularly scheduled meetings with Executive Leadership, the CIO, and IT Leadership
- Develop project requirements documents through interactions with customers and technical personnel
- Assess and report on status, issues, and risks of items in the IT portfolio
- Manage and report on resource allocation, including capacity to accept more work
- Collaborate and coordinate across all IT and business segments
- Exercise initiative and independent judgment and discretion under limited supervision
- Develop reports that communicate project and demand status, resource assignments, and resource availability
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
- Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
- Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
- Career advancement and professional development programs
- Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of two years of relevant experience. Typical relevant experience ranging from 4 to 7 years.
- OR Master's degree with a minimum of one year of relevant experience.
- Applicants with a high school diploma or equivalent may be considered on an exceptional basis with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a group with diverse backgrounds and skills
- Strong interpersonal communication skills, time management skills, organizational skills, and oral and written skills
- ServiceNow experience, especially with Strategic Portfolio Management and Project Management modules
- Proven experience in business analysis for production or technical projects
- Extensive knowledge and experience working with Excel spreadsheets
- Knowledge and understanding of strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements
- Demonstrated experience in effectively partnering and communicating with internal and external customers
- Experience with Agile Scrum or Scaled Agile techniques
- Highly-motivated individual with a natural instinct to lead
- Proven experience in effectively handling multiple tasks while meeting deadlines
- Skilled in the use of tools such as project portfolio management, data analytics, word processing software, Scrum, Kanban, or other hybrid agile methods
- ITIL framework certification
- Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Leading SAFe Certified
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)
Why Pantex?
You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Pantex you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
Notes
The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.
Pantex is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
Pantex is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.
