Job Description

IT Integration Support Subject Matter Expert

The Position:

We are seeking a motivated, detail-oriented professional with experience in technology transformation, systems integration, defined contribution retirement plans, and recordkeeping services to support the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board’s modernization and recompete of its recordkeeping services. The Integration Support Subject Matter Expert will provide specialized expertise in evaluating the current technology environment, aligning federal requirements with commercial recordkeeping practices, assessing risks, and supporting transition and integration planning across impacted stakeholders and systems. This position requires strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-engagement skills, as well as the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, actionable recommendations. A successful candidate will collaborate with agency leaders, industry experts, and cross-functional teams to support a complex, long-term acquisition serving the nation’s largest defined contribution retirement plan. Responsibilities for the role will include:

• Support the evaluation and planning of technology transformation, transition, and integration activities associated with the future recordkeeping environment.
• Assess current-state technologies, business processes, systems, interfaces, and integration dependencies to inform future-state requirements.
• Work with agency stakeholders and commercial and federal third parties to promote effective communication and coordination across impacted organizations.
• Translate business, operational, security, and recordkeeping needs into clear technical and integration requirements.
• Align applicable federal IT standards, rules, and regulations with commercial defined contribution and recordkeeping standards and practices.
• Conduct technology research and analysis to evaluate potential solutions, emerging capabilities, industry trends, and implementation considerations.
• Support the development of transition strategies, integration roadmaps, process flows, technical documentation, and executive-level recommendations.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions, requirements-gathering sessions, process reviews, and technical working meetings.
• Conduct risk assessments and support the development of security assessment reports, risk-mitigation strategies, and related documentation.
• Identify integration risks, dependencies, gaps, and implementation challenges and communicate findings to agency and project leadership.
• Collaborate with acquisition, cost-modeling, retirement-plan administration, and research teams to ensure technical considerations are incorporated into the broader acquisition strategy.

The Ideal Candidate: 

At Censeo, we are looking for unique candidates whose passion and enthusiasm will help shape Censeo’s client insights and workplace culture. Our staff have a wide range of backgrounds, areas of expertise, personality types, and favorite breakfast foods. Our client and cultural successes are rooted in our team’s innovation, creative problem solving, and collaboration. The unique perspective that you bring and the way you tackle problems are much more important to us than what’s printed on your diploma. Some of the core qualifications for the role include:

Required:

• Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 10 years of professional experience in IT research and analysis, technology consulting, systems integration, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading or advising large-scale business-process or technology-transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting complex system transitions and integrations involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret and align federal IT standards, rules, and regulations with applicable commercial technology standards and practices.
• Demonstrated experience conducting risk assessments and developing security assessment reports.
• Extensive technical knowledge in one or more relevant technology areas, along with strong business and technology strategy capabilities.
• Proven ability to develop consensus and coordinate effectively among agency stakeholders, commercial partners, technical teams, and other third parties.
• Strong project or program management, written communication, presentation, and stakeholder-engagement skills.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting defined contribution retirement plans, recordkeeping platforms, or plan-administration systems.
• Experience aligning federal IT requirements with commercial defined contribution and recordkeeping standards and practices.
• Experience supporting technology transitions or integrations for large financial institutions, retirement systems, or managed-service environments.
• Familiarity with recordkeeping operations, participant-facing technologies, customer-service platforms, cybersecurity, and data integration.

The Company:

Censeo Consulting Group is a top Washington D.C. based management consulting firm dedicated to helping public sector and non-profit clients build operational excellence, deliver better outcomes, and lower cost. We take a personalized approach to strategic consulting to solve our clients’ most complex problems and build operational excellence that transforms their organizations, allowing them to better deliver on their public and social missions. 

At Censeo, our award-winning culture means you’ll join a tight-knit community of 80 brilliant and passionate colleagues. We are advocates for a better functioning public sector, and we’re also good friends who know the names of each other’s dogs. Our philosophy is horizontal, not hierarchical, and our open-door policy encourages a culture of entrepreneurship at all levels. We share successes, make decisions together, and foster an environment for those with passion and initiative to lead. Our colleagues bring their own unique personalities to work every day and use them to help shape our growing firm in ways that reach far beyond client projects. 

The Location :

Censeo Consulting Group is based in Washington D.C., a fantastic city for working professionals. We work in a hybrid setting with flexibility to work from home and work in our office conveniently located in the heart of downtown, just a few blocks away from the White House. And with many of our clients also based in D.C., we have the luxury of leaving for a meeting and being back in the office in time for post-work happy hours, team dinners, and game nights.

The Fine Print:

• The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $165,000 depending on experience
• Expected travel 0-10%; may increase based on business needs 
• This is an exempt, full-time position but open to part-time/contracted arrangements
• This role is subject to a hybrid work schedule in the Washington D.C. 
• Essential Physical Functions
  • Sitting: Particularly for sustained periods of time
  • Light Carrying: Physically transporting items weighing less than 15 pounds from one location to another

Censeo offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including paid vacation and sick leave, flexible and remote work opportunities, and tuition and training reimbursement. More information on our benefits and perks can be found at  

Censeo is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, gender, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law. 

Join Our Award-Winning Culture!
Our passion wins awards. But don’t just take it from us… 

• 2024 Vault #41 Consulting 50 North America
• 2024 Vault #7 Best Consulting Firm for Hours in the Office
• 2023 Vault #9 Best Consulting Firm for Work/Life Balance 
• 2023 Vault #23 Best Consulting Firm for Overall Diversity
• 2023 Management Consulted #3 Best Boutique Firms in Washington DC
• 2022 Vault #41 Best Overall Consulting Firm to Work For
• 2020 Vault #21 Best Boutique Consulting Firm 
• 2019 Ivy Exec #7 Best Boutique Consulting Firm 
• 2018 Consulting Magazine Best Small Firms to Work For  
• 2017 Vault #12 Best Boutique Consulting Firm 
• 2016 Forbes Best Management Consulting Firms in America 
• 2015 Washington Business Journal’s Philanthropy List 

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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Remote work, Flexible hours

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