Workflow Automation Engineer

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF International is seeking a qualified workflow engineer/operations analyst for a remote role with occasional on-site meetings in the Washington, DC area. You will configure and improve CRM integrations, intake workflows, routing logic, customer status visibility, workflow automation, dashboards, and customer lifecycle data flows to support government programs.

You will collaborate with Platform Engineering, Security, QA, and Product Operations to ensure secure, testable, auditable workflow

Job description

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.

The Work

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 workflow engineer/operations analyst will configure and improves CRM integrations, intake workflows, routing logic, customer status visibility, workflow automation, reporting dashboards, and customer lifecycle data flows. Translates service designs and product requirements into working CRM/workflow capabilities that maintain customer history and support status transparency. Coordinates with Platform Engineering, Security, QA, and Product Operations to ensure workflow changes are secure, testable, auditable, and integrated with downstream provisioning and support processes.

Job Location: Remote, however, strong preference for candidates who live in the Washington DC Metro Area. There will be occasional onsite meetings on the client site in Washington, DC.

If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations, blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and prohibits personal VPN connections.

What You Will Do:

• Configures and improves CRM integrations, intake workflows, routing logic, customer status visibility, workflow automation, reporting dashboards, and customer lifecycle data flows.
• Translates service designs and product requirements into working CRM/workflow capabilities that maintain customer history and support status transparency.
• Coordinates with Platform Engineering, Security, QA, and Product Operations to ensure workflow changes are secure, testable, auditable, and integrated with downstream provisioning and support processes.
• Apply CRM configuration, workflow automation, requirements analysis, dashboards, systems integration, process mapping, intake/status tracking, and service management tools to support role delivery.
• Collaborate with relevant product, engineering, security, governance, quality, and customer-facing stakeholders as required by the role.
• Document work products, decisions, risks, and delivery evidence to support traceability and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• 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, Systems Analysis, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Workflow Automation, Business Analytics, or related field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience aligned to the responsibilities of this role including experience designing and implementing workflow automation, routing logic, approval processes, intake forms, customer lifecycle workflows, and operational process improvements.
• Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience configuring and administering CRM, customer intake, case management, or service management platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, or similar solutions.
• Experience translating business requirements, service designs, and customer journey needs into technical workflow solutions and system configurations.
• Experience developing and maintaining customer onboarding, provisioning, request fulfillment, intake management, and status-tracking processes.
• Experience integrating CRM, ticketing, workflow, identity management, and operational platforms through APIs, workflow engines, connectors, or low-code automation tools.
• Experience developing dashboards, operational metrics, intake reporting, workflow performance reporting, SLA tracking, and customer experience reporting using Power BI or similar business intelligence platforms.
• Experience performing business process mapping, current-state/future-state analysis, workflow optimization, and continuous process