TS/SCI Cleared Expert Ontologist (Integrator)

Job Status:  Position is funded/active and contingent upon acceptance by customer

Location:  Springfield, Virginia (on-site)

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 (ACS) 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.

ACS is seeking an Expert Ontologist/Systems Integrator to  support the Government by leading and oversee the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise. This role will lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for total cloud services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools. This role provides end-to-end system development life cycle support to the program and provides 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 include, but are not limited to:

• 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.)

  Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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, ontologies, or related STEM degree program, or 18+ years work experience as a Systems Integrator.
• 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.
• TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph

  Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expert-level 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

  Essential Job Functions: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to identify the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental duties of the position that must be performed, with or without reasonable accommodation.The essential functions of this position include:

• Ability to work onsite in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) environment, as required
• Ability to collaborate effectively with government customers, technical teams, and cross-functional partners
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to operate standard office equipment and remain in a stationary position for extended periods
• Ability to analyze requirements and contribute to technical solutions in a mission-driven environment
• Ability to manage assigned tasks and deliver quality work under deadlines
• Ability to analyze complex system requirements and develop technical recommendations
• Ability to contribute to systems engineering, integration, and evaluation efforts across the lifecycle
• Ability to support technical planning, risk identification, and system improvement initiatives
• Ability to work independently while contributing to team objectives in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under deadlines
• Ability to comply with all security requirements, including handling classified information in secure environments

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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, ontologies, or related STEM degree program, or 18+ years work experience as a Systems Integrator.

  Years of experience: 

• 18 years with Bachelor's degree (experience may be considered in lieu of degree)

Position Type:  Full-Time

Shift:  Day

Export Control:  For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

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, disability, or protected veteran status. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply. ACS is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a workplace free from unlawful discrimination in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services. 

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 View phone number on us.fitly.work.

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