Automation Engineer

GovCIO is currently hiring for an Automation Engineer to support data analysis, process automation, data configuration, workflow configuration, and reporting activities at Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This role will work with a team of both officers and contractors to interconnect reporting and analytics, configuration, and analyze data to create real-time metrics, tasking responses, and overall information to support the ICE mission. This role will directly support activities with the Los Angeles Field Office on-site as they work to automate processes to make law enforcement initiatives more efficient.

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, field office teams, project managers, to collect and compile information to ensure timely responses to requests and ad hoc assignments.
• Ability to align data with data analytic tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and Qlik Dashboards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand existing business workflows and identify areas where tools such as Power Apps and Power BI can provide innovative solutions.
• Facilitate the needs, issues, and challenges faced by the clients; perform gap analysis and recommend solutions and can be enabled within the data systems.
• Provide trade-off analyses on technical solutions to determine the best tools and methodologies to solve complex data requests.
• Create project deliverables, including artifacts to ensure adherence to team compliance and quality standards.
• Use source data to assess the effectiveness of projects and business processes.
• Work with all team members to analyze changes in requirements and recommend the most expedient solutions in a timely manner.
• Enable end-user visibility of data and metrics via dashboard creation and metric dissemination
• Leverage advanced analytic skills to translate complicated issues from multiple information sources into a clear picture for mission leadership.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelors Degree (or commensurate experience)
• 5+ years of work experience
• 3+ years of experience work in data and automation client environments
• Microsoft Power Platform Experience (Power Automate, Power BI)

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Ability to translate ICE specific mission needs into practical data elements for analysis.
• Excellent data analytic and communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational abilities.
• Ability to work independently in an extremely fast-paced environment.
• Be flexible to change direction on a moments notice while also tracking/executing tasks in progress.
• Ability to think outside of the box while communicating or dealing with a variety of situations.
• Experience in data exploration, data cleaning, visualization, and overall data analytics
• Experience in data visualization tools such as Qlik or Tableau
• Experience in distributed data and computing tools including Databricks
• Strong evidence of Data modeling, mapping data flows and data design.

Clearance Required:

• Ability to attain and maintain DHS clearance (US citizenship required)