Functional Specialist Advisor

Functional Specialist Advisor (Expert)

Clearance Required:  TS/SCI

Minimum Years’ Experience: 18 Years

Overall Assignment Description: 

Provides expertise, guidance, consultation, facilitation, and thought leadership to the client and/or project team based on specialized in-depth expertise in such fields as: engineering and technology; policy and administration; planning; analysis; training and development; facilities; communications; visual design; human capital; business; and management.  Ensures that quality is an integral part of the development, design and manufacture of products or services.  Monitors requirements through test and measurement activities; manages/leads quality assurance activities.  

Duties may include: 

• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine approach and feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. 

• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan computer specifications and layouts, and peripheral equipment modifications. 

• Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques. 

• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. 

• Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, and security needs to determine hardware configuration. 

• Estimate software development costs and schedule. 

• Consult with customers about software system design and maintenance. 

• Consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, develop specifications and performance requirements and resolve customer problems. 

• Confer with data processing and project managers to obtain information on limitations and capabilities for data processing projects. 

• Prepare reports and correspondence concerning project specifications, activities and status. 

• Evaluate factors such as reporting formats required, cost constraints, and need for security restrictions to determine hardware configuration. 

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Image Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, or other related degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

• Demonstrated experience providing guidance and direction in high technology programs.

• Expert-level experience in guidance, consultation, facilitation, and thought leadership to the client and/or project team based on specialized in-depth expertise in such fields as:

• • engineering and technology

• • policy and administration

  • program management

  • planning

  • analysis

  • training and development

  • facilities

  • communications

  • visual design

  • human capital

  • Business

• Senior level experience in helping organizations make data-driven decisions by providing real-time insights into business operations performance indicators and other metrics.

• Tableau Certification and other Business Intelligence tools e.g., Oracle NetSuite, Manta etc.

• +5 years of data modeling, data mapping, data analysis, and data visualization.

• +5 years of experience in developing and managing dashboards and reports in Tableau.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools, and languages (e.g., CAMEO and Jira).

• Demonstrated experience applying and implementing Agile methodologies (e.g., SAFe Agile).

Desired:

• Master’s degree or higher in Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Image Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, or other related degree program.

• Expert-level experience in engineering, design and analysis of IT or related systems experience in all phases of design, development, analysis and documentation, and development of standards and guidelines for tasks being performed.

• Expert-level experience working with DoD/IC Acquisition Process or PPBES.

• Experience with Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, or Image Science.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.

Experience with: 

• • Project Management software (Project, Primavera)

• • Financial tracking software

  • Customer relationship management CRM software.

  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software.