Senior Data Strategist/Systems Engineer

STEMBoard is a technology solutions company that creates smart systems and software solutions for government and large-scale private sector clients. We are growing fast and need passionate, innovative people who love working with technology and are ready to make an impact.

Here’s what you can expect from us:

• You will work with great people who love what they do: our team includes published authors, patent holders, and internationally renowned engineers.
• We care about our employees: we invest in professional development and reward creativity. Starting day one, every employee is bonus eligible and receives 20 days of paid vacation.
• We invest in the community: STEMBoard boasts a lively education and outreach program that teaches engineering to the historically underserved.

The Data Strategist shall perform the following tasks:

• Consult the Government with integration of CV capabilities as described in the CNS across the NGA, NSG, ASG, other US Government commercial and foreign partner enterprise ensuring alignment of architecture, requirements and as-built capabilities, services and features comply with all licenses and sharing agreements.
• Advocate various CV processes, workflows, and integration across NGA Programs’ project plans, technical roadmaps, and schedules to achieve the efficient delivery of capabilities.
• Maintain technical roadmaps against strategic epic planning scope and completion dates. Re-baseline roadmaps in response to changes in requirements and strategy.
• Ensure integration of solution engineering across time horizons from year of budget execution through the Future Year Defense Program (FYDP and beyond).
• Consult Government oversight of program development and coordination of CONOPS, technology roadmap planning, architecture development, cross segment / cross Agency interface definitions, requirements definition, decomposition, allocation to and development by programs, segments, and projects, and enterprise-level verification and validation, transition to operations and retirement activities.
• Consult integration across the planned, in-work, and delivered services related to sensor integration programs, ensuring that all the components connect, operate together successfully, and are consistent with enterprise plans and strategies.
• Consult integration activities and interactions with the IC, external agencies and the DoD to include data (various GEOINT modalities) acquisition, related ground architecture development efforts to include data management platform (DMP) necessary to meet user requirements.
• Consult end to end system integration and acceptance necessary.
• Consult technical reviews, preform technology readiness assessments, and attend Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) to assess enterprise integration challenges.
• Review system integration documentation for accuracy, completeness, and harmony with enterprise integration efforts. Coordinate needed changes with appropriate program, segment, and project offices.
• Support the transition of new services and capabilities to operations and identify gaps in toolsets and automation used to test and deliver those services and capabilities. Identify gaps or new needs for automated test capabilities to address incoming capabilities.
• Provide developers guidance and recommendation on service virtualization, and service APIs for enterprise systems.
• In collaboration with Enterprise Risk Management, performed on the NGA Foundational Engineering Contract, identify enterprise-level risks, opportunities and issues associated with enterprise integration and assist in risk mitigation.
• Manage, Coordinate, and from response to taskers for AI Governance.

Requirements

• A combination of twenty (20) cumulative years of experience in which fifteen (15) years are focused demonstrated understanding, knowledge, and expert level experience as a Systems Engineer.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience consulting the Government with integration of capabilities across the NGA, NSG, ASG, other US Government commercial and foreign partner enterprise ensuring alignment of architecture, requirements and as-built capabilities, services and features comply with all licenses and sharing agreements.
• Demonstrated experience consulting Government oversight of program development and coordination of CONOPS, technology roadmap planning, architecture development, cross segment / cross Agency interface definitions, requirements definition, decomposition, allocation to and development by programs, segments, and projects, and enterprise-level verification and validation, transition to operations and retirement activities.
• Demonstrated experience consulting integration across the planned, in-work, and delivered services related to sensor integration programs, ensuring that all the components connect, operate together successfully, and are consistent with enterprise plans and strategies.
• Demonstrated experience consulting integration activities and interactions with the IC, external agencies and the DoD to include data (various GEOINT modalities) acquisition, related ground architecture development efforts to include data management platform (DMP) necessary to meet user requirements.
• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Master's degree in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Systems Engineer.
• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Software Development Framework certification.
• INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
• Licensure as a professional engineer.
• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM; ASCE; ASPRS; OGC; SAREM; USGIF
• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Benefits

• Healthcare, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• 20 Days Paid Leave
• 401K Matching
• Training/Certification Reimbursement
• Short term/Long term disability
• Parental/Maternity Leave
• Life Insurance

STEMBoard is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation. STEMBoard is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.