Business Process Reengineering Specialist with Security Clearance

Blue Sky Innovative Solutions; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Sky Innovative Solutions is seeking experienced Business Process Reengineering Specialists to support a high-visibility transformation for the DHS CISA. You will assess current state, identify gaps, and develop practical recommendations for a future-state operating model, collaborating with senior leaders and stakeholders across boundaries.

The role targets professionals with 5+ years in process reengineering, organizational transformation, or management consulting, comfortable navigating

Qualifications

• 5 years of progressively responsible experience in business process reengineering, organizational transformation, operating-model design, organizational design, management consulting, process improvement, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience conducting current-state assessments and developing actionable future-state recommendations.
• Experience interviewing stakeholders and facilitating workshops, working sessions, or other structured stakeholder engagements.

Responsibilities

• Conduct current-state assessments to understand mission-critical work across boundaries.
• Analyze business processes, roles, interfaces, workflows, governance, and performance drivers.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, and working sessions with senior leaders and SMEs.
• Develop questions and methods to gather information on challenges and improvement opportunities.
• Identify gaps, bottlenecks, and coordination issues across cross-functional processes.
• Map cross-organizational processes and design future-state operating models.
• Translate authorities into organizational responsibilities, interfaces, and measures.

Skills

Business Process Reengineering

Organizational Transformation

Management Consulting

Stakeholder Interviews

Workshop Facilitation

Process Mapping

Critical Thinking

Job description

Blue Sky Innovative Solutions LLC is seeking experienced Business Process Reengineering Specialists to support a high-visibility organizational transformation initiative for the Department of Homeland Security (Client) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, you will help CISA assess how mission work is performed today, identify organizational and operational gaps, and develop practical recommendations for an improved future-state operating model. You will work with senior leaders, subject-matter experts, and stakeholders across organizational boundaries to understand complex operations, analyze processes and organizational dynamics, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations. This position is ideal for an experienced management consultant, business process reengineering professional, or organizational transformation practitioner who is comfortable working through complex and sometimes ambiguous problems and can move effectively from discovery and analysis through recommendations and future-state design. Location: Arlington, VA / Hybrid - must be available to work on-site at CISA facilities as required Schedule: Full-time, generally Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM ET Clearance: No active security clearance required Security Requirement: Must be able to obtain and maintain the required Client Fitness Determination and access authorization; a recent favorable Client Fitness Determination is preferred Certification: None required Experience: 5 years of relevant business process reengineering, organizational transformation, operating-model, organizational design, or management consulting experience

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Conduct current-state organizational and operational assessments to understand how mission-critical work is performed across organizational boundaries.
• Analyze business and mission processes, organizational roles and interfaces, workflows and information flows, decision rights, governance, performance drivers, culture, authorities, and dependencies.
• Conduct and support structured interviews, workshops, focus groups, and working sessions with senior leaders, subject-matter experts, and other stakeholders.
• Develop interview questions and other structured methods for gathering information about operational challenges, root causes, organizational barriers, and opportunities for improvement.
• Analyze information from interviews, documents, operational data, policies, authorities, recent events, and existing processes to identify patterns and develop evidence-based findings.
• Map and assess cross-functional processes and identify gaps, duplication, unclear ownership, ineffective handoffs, decision bottlenecks, and opportunities for improved coordination.
• Analyze critical cross-organizational processes such as incident reporting, operational coordination, and stakeholder or sector engagement.
• Assess current and emerging authorities and help translate them into implications for organizational responsibilities, interfaces, governance, processes, and measures.
• Develop recommendations for future-state operating models, including roles and responsibilities, organizational interfaces, workflows, governance, decision rights, information exchanges, and performance measures.
• Support organizational health and culture assessments and translate findings into practical business reengineering and organizational transformation recommendations.
• Benchmark organizational practices and culture against relevant public- and private-sector organizations.
• Develop clear, concise, executive-ready analyses, recommendations, presentations, and other decision-support materials.
• Collaborate with other analysts and implementation personnel to integrate findings across workstreams and ensure recommendations account for cross-organizational dependencies.
• Review analytical products for accuracy, consistency, evidentiary support, and clarity.

WHAT YOU BRING Required

• 5 years of progressively responsible experience in business process reengineering, organizational transformation, operating-model design, organizational design, management consulting, process improvement, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience conducting current-state assessments and developing actionable future-state recommendations.
• Experience analyzing complex processes or organizational issues that span multiple functions, teams, or organizational boundaries.
• Experience interviewing stakeholders and facilitating workshops, working sessions, or other structured stakeholder engagements.
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and distinguish underlying organizational or operational issues from individual stakeholder perspectives.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and systems-thinking skills.
• Strong written communication skills with demonstrated ability to develop concise, executive-ready analyses and recommendations.
• Strong verbal communication and facilitation skills and the ability to work effectively with senior leaders and experienced subject-matter experts.
• Ability to ask thoughtful, probing questions and respectfully challenge assumptions when evidence warrants further examination.
• Sound judgment, diplomacy, and professional discretion when working with sensitive organizational issues or differing stakeholder perspectives.
• Ability to work effectively in an evolving environment where information may be incomplete and priorities may change rapidly.
• Strong collaboration skills and willingness to share findings, test conclusions, and contribute to integrated team recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and produce high-quality work under compressed timelines.
• Ability to work on-site in Arlington, Virginia, as required.
• Ability to successfully complete Client personnel security and fitness processing.

Preferred

• Experience supporting Federal organizational transformation, organizational design, or enterprise-level management consulting.
• Experience working with Client, CISA, national security organizations, critical infrastructure organizations, or other complex Federal agencies.
• Experience coordinating across multiple Federal organizations, industry partners, or stakeholder groups.
• Experience assessing organizational culture, organizational health, workforce behaviors, or change readiness.
• Experience developing governance models, decision rights, RACI/RASCI structures, operating models, or cross-functional process designs.
• Experience translating statutory authorities, policy, strategy, or mission requirements into organizational responsibilities and operating practices.
• Familiarity with process mapping, business process modeling, root-cause analysis, or comparable analytical methods.
• Relevant Lean Six Sigma, Prosci, organizational development, change management, business analysis, or similar professional credentials.

About Blue Sky Blue Sky Innovative Solutions (Blue Sky) assists its federal, state and local, and commercial clients with solving their toughest challenges in the areas of IT Infrastructure Support and Engineering; Application Development and Maintenance; Program and Project Management; and Management Consulting. Find out more about Blue Sky at www.bsis-llc.com. Blue Sky is an equal opportunity employer and recruits mission-oriented, proactive, skilled candidates from across the United States. As an SBA certified HUBZone small business, Blue Sky has a special interest in recruiting and hiring personnel who reside in HUBZones. To determine whether you reside in a HUBZone, visit http://map.sba.gov/hubzone/maps/ . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.