IT Consultant

Company Overview:

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description:

Markon is looking for an IT Consultant to support one of our Intelligence Community customers. The IT Consultant will serve as a trusted advisor, and functions as a key point of contact for the branch chief and appointees. They will advocate on behalf of our customers to ensure their IT services meet their business priorities and needs. This position will provide highly valued strategic consulting level support and guidance throughout initiatives; facilitating and serving as a direct support to the Government Team Lead and branch leadership to lead the planning and execution of initiatives to enable IT customers to achieve objectives through the effective use of technology. Provides Technical expertise and consulting for IT related Projects. Leads the completion of a wide range of technical assignments, including such things as analysis of technical issues, review of technical documents, development and analysis of requirements, development of technical papers, and the development of technical recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide business and technical strategies for IT development to involve requirement elicitation, analysis, and functional allocation.
• Analyze and evaluate business goals and requirements; recommend strategies to increase MPO success.
• Develop controls (course of action, workarounds, etc).
• Obtain and maintain knowledge of industry best practices and provide ITrecommendations/strategiesbased on industry practice.
• Liaison between MPO customers and various contractor support teams.
• Providerecommendations/solutionsthat are efficient and cost effective.
• Meet with internal/external customers to develop required and efficient requirements
• Proactively examine customer needs; performance analysis to identify gaps and opportunities.
• Perform SWOT analysis as required.

Requirements:

• 20+ years of technical expertise
• Active TS/SCI FS Poly clearance
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of word processing and integrated software applications.
• Strong written and verbal communicate skills
• Self-Motivated
• Ability to facilitate/lead IT projects and teams