Senior Ontology Architect & Systems Integrator

Core Csi

Springfield, Northern (VA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

CORE-CSI, a Sterling, VA-based tech firm, seeks an Ontologist – Expert System Integrator to lead systems integration, ontology development, and mission-focused technical leadership across government, industry, and multi-contractor environments. The role spans SDLC activities, requirements translation, and architecture governance for Foundation GEOINT capabilities.

The candidate will drive solution designs, automate workflows, and collaborate with data offices and product teams to deliver

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or 18+ years of relevant experience as a Systems Integrator.

Responsibilities

Provide expert advice to the Government regarding vision, strategy, plans, mission needs, requirements, processes, and capability development.
Lead and oversee systems integration activities across the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise.
Conduct solution assessments, scheduling analyses, and integration activities across IPO product lines and supporting services to enable mission functions.
Translate mission and customer requirements into products, services, and capabilities that support optimized solutions.
Partner with Product Managers on backlog grooming, feature prioritization, and roadmap sequencing.
Plan, capture, analyze, and trace user requirements and architecture relationships throughout the system development life cycle.
Identify opportunities to automate or improve existing systems, workflows, processes, and capabilities.
Evaluate cloud service capabilities, workflows, scheduling constraints, and limitations to identify opportunities for mission and operational improvements.
Provide subject matter expertise in interpreting and implementing customer data requirements.
Collaborate effectively with IPOs, the Chief Data Officer (CDO), and other CIOT capability providers to advance Content Conveyance objectives.
Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Courses of Action (CoAs), trade studies, engineering assessments, and other technical decision-support activities.
Lead technical teams in the design, implementation, and governance of ontology processes and frameworks that guide the creation, management, evolution, and use of Foundation GEOINT in accordance with organizational requirements.
Provide expert-level systems integration and systems engineering support across planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and sustainment activities.
Assist the Government with strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
Provide end-to-end support across the system development life cycle using established processes, methodologies, and tools.
Develop technical approaches that shorten the timeline for adopting, integrating, and appropriately exposing new source and supplier products and services.
Develop and evaluate trade-space options to support efficient planning, programming, budgeting, and execution cycles.
Maintain and track Agile schedules using project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
Work effectively both independently and as a technical leader while managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
Collaborate across Government and multiple contractor organizations in a complex, multifaceted development environment.