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As an Expert Lead Integrator, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will work with talented developers and colleagues, gaining exposure to industry best practices such as AWS cloud solutions, continuous integration/delivery, infrastructure as code, and automation of testing of deployments.
Job Responsibility:
Identifies cross-team dependencies
works with Government Product Owners for SRB, CRB, and ORB processes
and ensures teams deliver capabilities that adds mission value
Trusted team between Govt Product Manager and Lead developers to ensure that end two end capabilities that development teams delivered are seamlessly integrated and interoperable
Manage projects to ensure timely production of quality products aligned to requirements
Collect, analyze and suggest short term and long term budgetary activities
Test software functionality and design concepts
Engage in working groups to streamline costs, determine risks and gaps and offer strategic support
Evaluate and analyze high profile projects
Oversee projects performance to identify areas requiring adjustments like portfolio rebalance
Interface wth Government engineering and senior management teams
Work closely with 3rd party vendors /service providers on all touch points including upgrading applications and production support issues
Provides end-to-end project management support of the lifecycle
Map resources to projects to provide management insight into resource utilization
Apply program management principles to improve project implementation, reporting and internal metrics
Oversee and perform change management activities
Provide expert counseling and support to the development team on construction and maintenance of robust, secure and efficient applications
Research emerging technologies to decide if installation can increase the organization's efficiency and effectiveness
Prepare an analysis of cost and benefits for decision making on IT systems and computing infrastructure efficiencies
Devise ways to add new functionality to existing technical systems and architectures
Design and implement new systems by choosing and configuring software
Oversee the installation and configuration of new software and capabilities
Conduct testing to ensure that the systems work as expected
Train system end users and write instruction manuals
Requirements:
At least 10 years’ experience with API development, AWS services (S3, DIODE, SNS/SQS, SDK development, Cloudformation), Apache Nifi, ElasticSearch, PKI, Terraform, Jenkins/Gitlab CI, Containerization (e.g. Docker), and basic shell programming and system administration
At least 7 years’ experience with Integrator skills sets: Automated testing tools such as cucumber, Pact, JMeter, Elastic Logstash Kibana (ELK) framework, understanding of ICD503 A&A controls, AWS Lambda, Ansible/Salt, PCF, Kong
Applicable software/ hardware/management training & certification (e.g.
specialties like Amazon Web Service architect/engineering)
Strong AWS skills with experience in implementing and managing AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and CloudFormation
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
TS/SCI with Poly
Master’s degree plus 4 years’ experience, Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years’ experience, Associates degree plus 12 years’ experience, or a minimum of 15 years’ experience, in relevant field
Nice to have:
Experience with GIS tools such as ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS, or similar
Strong knowledge of system integration principles and practices, including API integration, data integration, and service-oriented architecture (SOA)