Expert Systems Integrator - Digital Ontologies

Strategic ACI; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic ACI is seeking an on-site Expert Systems Integrator to support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise. You will oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for total cloud services and subsystems using defined processes and tools.

You will provide Subject Matter Expertise to shorten timelines for adopting, integrating, and exposing new sources/products and develop trade space

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to pass a polygraph.
• 18+ years of DoD/IC-related experience in systems engineering or integration.
• Experience leading system integration programs in government or industry.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on vision, strategy, and capability developments for government systems.
• Lead planning, analysis, and integration across product lines to enable mission functions.
• Translate requirements into products and capabilities with backlog grooming and roadmap sequencing.
• Lead design, implementation, and governance of processes and ontologies for GEOINT foundations.
• Support technical planning, project management, risk management, and interface design.

Skills

TS/SCI Clearance

Systems Engineering

DoD/IC Acquisition

Ontology / CCO

GEOINT

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Strategic ACI is seeking an on-site Expert Systems Integrator to support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise.In this position you will lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for total cloud services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.As well as providing end-to-end system development life cycle support to the program Provide Subject Matter Expertise to shorten the timeline associated with adopting, integrating, and properly exposing new Sources/Suppliers products/services and develop trade space options for efficient planning, programming, budgeting, and execution cycles.

Responsibilities:

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
• Conducts solution assessments, scheduling analysis, and integration across IPO product lines and other services to enable mission functions.
• Capture and translate mission and customer requirements into products and capabilities for optimized solutions; partner with Product Managers for backlog grooming and roadmap sequencing of features.
• Conducts: planning; captures, analyzes, traces user requirements; architecture traceability, procedures, and problem identification to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations for existing user workflows and to enable improvements.
• Provide expertise to interpret and implement customer data requirements
• Ability to effectively influence and seamlessly work with IPOs, Chief Data Officer (CDO), and other CIOT capability providers to meet the goals of Content Conveyance
• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• Provides expert-level support by leading technical teams for the design, implementation, and governance of processes and frameworks of ontology that guide the creation, management, evolution, and use of Foundation GEOINT consistent with organizational requirements.
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
• Strong team player, self-starter, comfortable working in a complex/multifaceted development environment
• Ability to work independently and as a team leader under tight deadlines managing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-contractor / government organization
• Maintain and track an Agile schedule in an appropriate project management capability (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the ability to pass a polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, NGA Production and Dissemination, IC TCPED.
• 18+ years of experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, NGA Production and Dissemination, IC TCPED.
• Expert experience working system integration or system engineering experience in government or industry.

Desired:

• Demonstrated 18+ years of proficiency in using Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) frameworks and implementing Common Core Ontologies (CCO).
• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.
• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, and information.