Automation Developer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Washington, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Part time
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- · 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 experie
- · 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.
Nice to have
- · 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
Full description
Automation DeveloperSummary:
· 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