IT Governance Analyst

Please note:

This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

At ICF our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. We bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.

Join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem. This cloud-based platform provides data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities that enable thousands of users to transform data into actionable insights. As demand continues to grow, the team is focused on migrating legacy workloads, streamlining onboarding and support, expanding platform capabilities, and helping organizations across the enterprise adopt modern data and AI solutions at scale.

The Systems Analyst supports architecture governance, security and compliance processes, and program decision management activities. This role maintains the operating artifacts and documentation required to make architecture, security, compliance, and decision governance repeatable, traceable, and auditable. The Systems Analyst works closely with program leadership, architects, security teams, and government stakeholders to ensure risks, decisions, actions, and compliance obligations are documented, tracked, and communicated effectively.

Remote, with the ability to support client meetings and collaboration activities as required.

If you accept this position, you should note that employee work locations may be monitored. Access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses may be restricted, and personal VPN connections may be prohibited in accordance with client requirements.

• Maintain architecture governance artifacts, decision logs, Architecture Review Board (ARB) materials, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Support development and maintenance of exception registers, compliance documentation, traceability matrices, and governance reports.
• Coordinate security documentation requests and collect audit and compliance evidence for assessments and reviews.
• Track risks, issues, action items, mitigation plans, owners, and due dates, ensuring visibility to the Program Manager and client stakeholders.
• Support Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) reporting activities and performance documentation.
• Prepare meeting agendas, capture meeting outputs, document decisions, and maintain records of resulting actions.
• Maintain traceability between approved standards, governance decisions, and implementation activities.
• Produce recurring status reports, process documentation, and governance metrics.
• Collaborate with technical, security, and program teams to ensure documentation remains accurate, complete, and current.
• Assist with audit readiness efforts and support continuous process improvement initiatives.

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
• Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum three (3) years of relevant Systems Analyst experience.

• Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.
• Experience supporting architecture governance, program governance, compliance management, risk management, or enterprise technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience maintaining architecture repositories, decision logs, risk registers, issue logs, action trackers, compliance documentation, and governance reporting artifacts.
• Familiarity with Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), technical governance reviews, design approvals, and Architecture Decision Record (ADR) processes.
• Experience supporting enterprise architecture documentation including reference architectures, solution blueprints, standards, waivers, exceptions, and implementation guidance.
• Experience…