Assured Consulting Solutions · 2 hours ago
Expert Systems Architect - hybrid
Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. They are seeking an experienced Expert Systems Architect to lead the design and development of solutions for complex applications problems, including API design and cloud services, to meet user requirements and align with strategic goals.
Big DataCyber SecurityEnterprise ApplicationsInformation ServicesManagement ConsultingNational SecurityNatural Language ProcessingSecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Plan the system design, system administration, and oversee development of Foundation GEOINT systems which are largely enterprise Geographic Information Systems
Advise in the management and direction of services to develop, install, configure, integrate, and maintain a common GIS platform for Foundation GEOINT production
Provide guidance on architecture design to ensure enterprise implementation
Administer all present engineering processes and provide architectural support to software development efforts
Ensure scalable solutions for cloud implementation
Provide high level architecture design documentation
Prepare efficient designs/DoDAF views with options to management
Identify industry and NGA standards and create IPF unique standards for open architecture, service centric architecture, service oriented architecture, and cloud architecture for inclusion in IPF RFPs, existing contracts, and government development efforts
Provide engineering evaluations of development utilities and components
Convert project specifications and procedures to detailed logical flow charts
Interface with customers to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
Perform the full lifecycle of engineering support including but not limited to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability analysis, resiliency analysis, development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability analysis, and decommissioning
Provide engineering support for requirements across the NSG and ASG
Lead the planning, documenting, analysis, and traceability of user requirements and architectures
Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design
Support RFP development and generate engineering documentation for RFPs
Provide proposal evaluation support as requested by the government
Provide architectural support
Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), trade studies and engineering assessments
Brief assigned activities as required
Work cross project with projects to facilitate transition from concept to development to sustainment to decommissioning
Work across NGA, NSG, and ASG partners to include but not limited to NGA/IPF, NGA/SF, NGA/R, NGA/TD, NGA/TA, DoD, FAA, and foreign partners, to provide engineering support to advance the Foundation GEOINT mission
Qualification
Required
Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency
Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph
Expert-level (18 years of) demonstrated experience with the systems engineering lifecycle
Expert-level (18 years of) demonstrated experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), or Intelligence Community's (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG)
Expert-level (18 years of) demonstrated experience with GIS implementations to illustrate competency in this area
One or more Professional GIS certifications including, but not limited to: Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute (GISCI), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
Master's degree or higher in Computer Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences
18+ years w/ Master's Degree
Preferred
Doctorate degree in Systems Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, or Management Information Systems
Expert-level demonstrated experience with NGA Foundation GEOINT production
Ten years of demonstrated experience with MBSE processes, tools and languages
Expert-level demonstrated experience with the NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises
Certified in Software Development Framework, Enterprise Architecture, or INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP)
Ten years of demonstrated experience with Cloud-based technologies, structured and unstructured Big Data, as well as AAA technologies