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 seeking a highly motivated SYSTEMS ARCHITECT to join our team. Expert Systems Architect is responsible for leading the development of program and project integration solutions across the enterprise and determining integration / interface requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

Expert Systems Architects assist in leading the design and development of 3D modeling and simulation solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise 3D Architecture. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide guidance on architecture design to ensure enterprise implementation.
• 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.
• Ensure Foundation GEOINT in 3D (FG3D) is properly integrated with Enterprise Requirements Management (ERM) at NGA.
• 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:

• Expert-level 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).
• Ten years of demonstrated experience with web and cloud services utilizing Amazon Web Service (AWS) with Amazon Snowballs and Data Transfers across enterprises and four years of experience with Amazon Snowballs.   
• Expert-level demonstrated experience designing/developing Relational Databases Systems and deploying on Oracle and AWS storage as implemented in NGA with at least 5 of those years of experience coming from designing, developing, and deploying on AWS.
• 14 years of demonstrated experience using Agile development methodologies.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Doctorate degree in Systems Engineering or in a related hard science STEM field such as, engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, or Geodetic Sciences or in project management or engineering management.
• Ten years of demonstrated experience with MBSE processes, tools and languages.
• Expert-level demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Expert-level demonstrated experience with the Open Geospatial Consortium Standard Common DataBase (CDB).
• Ten years of demonstrated experience with Cloud-based technologies, structured and unstructured Big Data, as well as Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation AAA technologies.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

Master's degree or higher 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.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

• 18+ years

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