LOCATION: St. Louis, MO

CLEARANCE 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.

BACKGROUND:

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated DATA ARCHITECT to join our team. This Data Architect works in the FG3D environment, to include Cloud Foundry, AWS, modern geospatial databases (Oracle spatial, PostgreSQL, etc.), to provide data quality control insights. Additionally, the Data Architect executes data quality procedures from testing and review of algorithms from 3D models output and document results.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Provide data quality control.
• Execute data quality procedures and document results.
• Perform/manage data quality control, establish/execute data quality procedures, and document results.
• Evaluate the Common DataBase (CDB) deliveries, such as those to NGA Open Data Store, for OGC standard compliance and other required standards.
• Produce Engineering Reports on every evaluation.
• Provide recommendations to the government on streamlining the verification and validation architecture.
• Evaluate 3D geospatial algorithms output for compliance with NGA GEOINT standards for accuracy and quality.
• 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.
• Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
• 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.
• 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.
• Brief assigned activities as required.
• Work cross project with other IPF 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.
• Support IPF leadership priorities and guidance

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Mid-level demonstrated experience in automated testing with 3D GEOINT data as a Geospatial Analyst with the ability to document and troubleshoot errors.
• Mid-level demonstrated experience in Quality Control, Agile Framework, and regression testing.
• Mid-level demonstrated experience using test management software, SQL, MatLab, C++ and Python.
• Mid-level demonstrated experience documenting test results including collecting logs, writing defect reports, and assigning fail for resolution

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree or higher in Systems 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.
• Mid-level demonstrated experience with platform engines such as Unity, Unreal, OpenFlight, and VBS.
• Two of the following: Two years of demonstrated experience with OGC Geopackage; two years of demonstrated experience with OGC CDB; one years of demonstrated experience with OGC Indoor GML; and one year of demonstrated experience with OGC 3D Tiles.
• Mid-level demonstrated experience with Foundation GEOINT data domains and mission areas.
• Mid-level demonstrated experience with geopositioning, triangulation, and geotechnical analytics

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

Requires a Bachelor'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. A degree in Systems Engineering, Project Management, or similar non-technical field does not satisfy this requirement.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

• 6-12 years w/ Bachelor's Degree
• Each year of degree work past Bachelor's degree can be used for ½ year of work experience

POSITION TYPE: Full-Time

SHIFT: Day

Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062