Human Resources Information Systems Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Human Resources System Support and Administration
• Applies Human Resources principles, concepts, methods, and practices to support and administer agency-wide HRIS services for both Civil Service and Foreign Service programs.
• Ensures the stability, reliability, and ongoing operation of HR systems within the Agency’s HRIS portfolio.
• Provides technical expertise to support system sustainment.
• Identifies and resolves system issues, including data discrepancies, processing errors, and system performance concerns.
• Performs complex data extraction, querying, validation, and analysis to support reporting requirements, audits, and transition activities.
• Develops and maintains repeatable data extraction processes and ensures data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across systems.
• Produces recurring and ad hoc reports and statistical analyses from HRIS platforms.
• Conducts data quality assessments and reconciliation activities to identify and resolve inconsistencies across systems.
• Serves as a system administrator for assigned systems, including managing user access, configuring system tables, and supporting security-related activities.
• Supports review, testing, and implementation activities related to system changes, patches, and updates required to maintain system operations.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure minimal disruption to business processes.
• Coordinates and resolves user issues and requests, providing timely and effective customer support.
• Communicates system updates, outages, and issues to stakeholders.
• Develops, maintains, and delivers user guidance and training materials to support effective system use.
• Develops, maintains, and organizes comprehensive system documentation and knowledge management resources, including standard operating procedures, data dictionaries, system configurations, interfaces, and transition artifacts (e.g., runbooks, data extraction guides, system inventories).
• Serves as a liaison with internal and external stakeholders, including HR offices, payroll, CIO organizations, and system vendors.
• Human Resources Information Systems Transition Planning and Execution
• Supports execution of HRIS transition activities, including data migration, system decommissioning, and cutover planning.
• Prepares, extracts, transforms, and validates data for migration to target systems.
• Performs data mapping and supports reconciliation between legacy and target systems.
• Affords assistance with development and execution of transition plans, timelines, and milestones.
• Ensures compliance with federal records management requirements and policies during data archiving and system decommissioning.
• Collaborates with stakeholders (HR, CIO, vendors) to support transition execution and issue resolution.
• Supports testing activities related to data migration and system transition (e.g., UAT, parallel testing).
• Maintains transition activities to ensure continuity of operations and escalates risks or issues as needed.
• Contributes to the identification and mitigation of risks related to data integrity, system performance, and transition timelines.
• Develops and maintains transition-related documentation, including data extraction procedures, mapping documents, runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials to support post-transition operations.
• Develops or supports metrics and status reporting related to system sustainment and transition progress.

Requirements

• Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Human Resource Informatics, Computer Information Systems or a related field is required.
• Experience: Personnel shall possess at least 4 years of experience with using National Finance Center (NFC) applications; such as NFC Mainframe, EPIC, Insight, SALL, Reporting Center. Three to five years of HR Information System specialist experience, ideally in the federal sector. Project management experience a plus.

Qualifications

• Knowledge: Excellent customer service and stakeholder engagement skills. Strong understanding of HR processes, HR data, and federal HR systems. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and data accuracy. Demonstrated ability to perform complex data analysis, extraction, and validation using HRIS tools and reporting platforms. Familiarity with data migration concepts, including data mapping, transformation, and reconciliation. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Effective organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and verbal. Previous exposure to project-related activities through active participation in system-related projects. Ability to document systems, processes, and data structures clearly and comprehensively for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Skills: Experience with HRConnect or other PeopleSoft systems, USA Staffing, and eOPF preferred. Experience with Google Sheets and Docs preferred. Experience using case management tools (e.g., ServiceNow) to manage and respond to user inquiries preferred. Experience with Tableau preferred.

Benefits

OBXtek offers a robust suite of benefits including comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, matching 401K, paid time off, tuition reimbursement plans and much more.