[Hiring] IT Cost Analyst @NSS

Role Description

Currently seeking a long-term and primarily remote IT Cost Analyst. This resource will live within a commutable distance to the Pentagon in Washington, DC and be available for occasional and infrequent onsite meetings as needed. This is a direct and permanent position offering comprehensive benefits and growth opportunities across the Navy and DOD space.

Clearance Requirements: Secret

About The Role:

• Support the Government Cost Team in the preparation, documentation, and presentation of cost estimates for IT programs.
• Acquire and understand source data used for estimating specific cost elements of a WBS.
• Develop cost estimating methods, prepare and maintain cost estimates, support additional data collection efforts, develop risk assessments, document estimates, and prepare and present briefings to Navy leadership.
• Research and collect data from non-DOW programs when data is unavailable or insufficient from traditional data sources.
• Crosscheck and validate manpower estimates.
• Estimate Software Development (Customization and Configuration), Software Licenses, Cloud Hosting, Hardware Procurement, Data Migration, Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Software Maintenance WBSs.
• Analyze Software Resources Data Report (SRDR) to develop analogies and Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) based on different software metrics such as RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows), Function Points, or other Agile Metric.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of professional experience
• Experience with DoD acquisition cost estimating structure
• Experience with theories, principles, and practices of cost analysis and ability to evaluate techniques used in generating program cost estimates
• Experience using Excel, Crystal Ball, ACEIT
• A Bachelor’s degree in a relative field
• An active Secret clearance

Requirements

• Must be available as needed for onsite meetings @ the Pentagon in Washington, DC - infrequent requirement