Automation Developer

Washington, United States | Posted on 08/06/2026

Security Clearance:
Public Trust or the abilityto obtain one.

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

Benefits:
Our client provides full benefits toW2 employees, including part-time.

Program Name:
Working Capital Fund (WCF), Officeof 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

Biz First is assisting our client with recruiting a skilled and experienced Automation Developer. This position supports the following program: U.S. Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Officeof 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 skillsets to support the federal government with strategic execution, financial process enablement, IT systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation.

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. Wenever automate a broken or unapproved rule. The client environment is Google-based — Google Workspace (Sheets, Drive, Chat, App Sheet, Apps Script) and Google Cloud analytics (Big Query, Dataform, Looker), alongside Delphi,Service Now, 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.

• 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 reviewand approval flows, and publication handoffs.
• Develop App Sheet 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.

• Security Clearance:
  Public Trust or the abilityto 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 orlow-code/no-code business applications in a controlled (change-managed,audited) environment.
• 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 thelatter.

• Google Workspace automation:
  App Sheet (apps andbots), Apps Script, Chat integrations, Forms.
• Microsoft Power Platform background (Power Automate, Power Apps) or RPA (UiPath) with clear transfer aptitude — the patterns carry directly.
• Service Now…