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AF DCGS System Architect
Email Recruiter@pts-usa.com to apply for this position

Profession:    Engineering

Job Code/Level:    SYSARCH_6 System Architect 6

Position Title:    AF DCGS System Architect

Project Overview    The Air Force is evolving its Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) to an open architecture, Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) compliant system.  SRA provides program management, systems engineering, architecture design, service management, and service infrastructure management support  to
  • Identify technology options and recommendations to meet operational needs
  • Advise and assist in implementing, integrating and testing new capabilities into the AFDCGS. 
  • Generate Engineering Artifacts as needed to effectively manage the implementation and integration activities.
  • Assist the Government in establishing the capability to develop and maintain an open architecture framework, centered around open source capabilities and using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework
Position Work Location:    Warner-Robins GA

US Citizenship Required:    Yes

Clearance Required:    Yes

Clearance Type:    Top Secret

Additional Suitabilities 
 
Duration:    > 12 months

Daily Responsibilities:    Lead a technical team of 8+ people in doing the following:
  • Charting and leading the transition from a closed proprietary system orientation to the execution of true open, SOA-based architecture and development pattern.
  • Providing advice and support to the government team on key development questions
  • Ensuring that the AF DCGS operational needs are realized through all customization and augmentation of out-of-the-box infrastructure components by collaborating with analysts and developers.
  • Leading the development/implementation of  the overall AF DCGS Architecture
  • Ensuring Adherence to Services Governance Model during development
     SRA's on-site program manager for the AF DCGS evolution implementation team

Required Travel:    10-20%

Required Years of experience (min):    10+

Required Degree:
   Bachelors

Required Basic Qualifications:
  • Experience in software development across the full system life cycle, with a strong software engineering background.
  • Experience in technical planning, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
  • Experience in using open source software.
  • Excellent inter-personal skills and able to communicate up and down the management chain, including both technical and non-technical personnel to ensure operational and technical initiatives are aligned to meet customer expectations
Desired Degree:    Masters

Desired Skills:    The following are highly desirable and the successful candidate will have some mix of these skills and experiences

      Knowledge and experience in:
  • Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technologies, including HADOOP, Cassandra and Cloudbase.
  • Widget frameworks, especially OZONE based
  • Network and Authentication Technologies
  • Data-intensive computational processes
  • Supporting system environments that span multiple datacenters
  • SOA-based architecture design for large system development, leveraging the industry's most advanced BPM/SOA platform to large systems development
  • Generating enterprise artifacts using DoDAF framework.
  • Government security requirements (DCID 6/3 and related documents) and developing solutions to meet security requirements
  • JBoss,  Red Hat Linux 5, and Oracle 11g
  • DCGS development, including  DCGS Infrastructure Backbone (DIB)
Work experience on military Service headquarters or Joint Staff and /or experience in a military service / agency development or sustainment position highly desirable
      Team leadership experience strong plus

Desired Subject:    Communications, Computer, or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems.

Salary: 125,000



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