Automation Developer

Automation Developer

Summary:

·         Job Title: Automation Developer

·         Openings: 1

·         Security Clearance: Public Trust or the ability
to obtain one.  

·         Work Type: Onsite

·         Job Type: Part-time (W2) or 1099 independent
contractor

·         Benefits: Our client provides full benefits to
W2 employees, including part-time.

·         Program Name: Working Capital Fund (WCF), Office
of Financial Management (OFM) - WCF IT Financial Management, Cost Model
Development, and Systems Integration Support

·         Agency name: U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT), Office of the Secretary (OST)

·         Work Location (FYI): DOT Headquarters, 1200 New
Jersey Ave SE, Washington, DC 20590

BizFirst is assisting our client
with recruiting a skilled and experienced Automation Developer. This position
supports the following program: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Office
of the Secretary (OST), Working Capital Fund (WCF), Office of Financial
Management (OFM) — WCF IT Financial Management, Cost Model Development, and
Systems Integration Support.

Our client is a boutique
consulting firm that employs consultants and professionals with unique skill
sets to support the federal government with strategic execution, financial
process enablement, IT systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software
implementation.

What will you do

Own the automation that
compresses a five-day manual billing cycle to under one day — and the workflows
that move disputes, approvals, and exceptions with full audit trails. The
governing discipline: the machine moves the data; people review exceptions. We
never automate a broken or unapproved rule. The client environment is
Google-based — Google Workspace (Sheets, Drive, Chat, AppSheet, Apps Script)
and Google Cloud analytics (BigQuery, Dataform, Looker), alongside Delphi,
ServiceNow, and PRISM. Candidates with Microsoft-stack depth (Power BI, Power
Automate, Power Query, SQL Server) and the aptitude to transfer are strong
fits; direct Google-stack experience is a significant plus.

Responsibilities:

·         Design and build the automated billing-cycle
workflow end to end: scheduled ingestion, validation on load, execution of the
approved calculation logic, self-populating exception queues, pre-bill review
and approval flows, and publication handoffs.

·         Develop AppSheet applications and automation
bots for dispute management — submission from the bill line with charge context
attached, owner assignment, reason codes, SLA timers, escalation, evidence
links, and resolution tracking with status surfaced to the reporting layer.

·         Build orchestration, notifications, and audit
logging in Apps Script (Google Chat, Gmail); use Cloud Workflows or Composer
where the Government authorizes heavier scheduling.

·         Codify only DOT-approved business rules;
maintain change control, versioning, and a complete audit trail for every
automated step.

·         Instrument cycle-time and touch-point metrics so
automation gains are measured against the documented baseline, not asserted.

·         Produce workflow documentation and runbooks;
support user acceptance testing and Government reperformance of the automated
cycle.

Requirements:

·         Security Clearance: Public Trust or the ability
to obtain one. 

·         Candidates whose experience is limited to
advisory, strategic, or conceptual consulting will not meet this program's bar.
The client explicitly requires demonstrated, hands-on implementation experience
— deployed cost models, executed billing cycles, delivered automations, and
operational financial products.

·         Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,
Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent additional
experience.

·         4+ years building workflow automation or
low-code/no-code business applications in a controlled (change-managed,
audited) environment.

·         Proficiency in JavaScript (Apps Script) or
Python for scripting and integration glue.

·         Demonstrated experience automating financial or
transactional processes with approval gates, exception handling, and
audit-trail requirements.

·         Process-mapping fluency: able to document a
manual cycle, isolate judgment steps from assembly steps, and automate only the
latter.

Desired Skills

·         Google Workspace automation: AppSheet (apps and
bots), Apps Script, Chat integrations, Forms.

·         Microsoft Power Platform background (Power
Automate, Power Apps) or RPA (UiPath) with clear transfer aptitude — the
patterns carry directly.

·         ServiceNow workflow experience; federal billing
or month-end close operations; Section 508 awareness for user-facing forms and
apps.

Benefits (provided by our
client; W2 employees only, including part-time):

·         Family Health Care (54% cost covered for the
entire family)

·         Family Dental (54% cost covered for the entire
family)

·         Family Vision (54% cost covered for the entire
family)

·         Flexible Spending Account

·         Overutilization bonuses for Time and Materials
(T&M) contracts

·         Lifetime Event Bonuses (e.g., child, marriage)

·         Profit-sharing arrangement for any work brought
into the company

·         Unlimited Leave with Approval

·         401k 100% employer match on first 4% invested

·         $1,000 training budget