Position/Title:  Vice President, Business Development (Rockville, MD)

POSITION SUMMARY:

Direct or identify Caelum’s business development initiatives that provide for the expansion of Caelum’s government contracting business. Develop and maintain relationships with customers and conduct development or capture activities to pursue potential business opportunities that will capitalize on and expand Caelum’s capabilities. Network with industry partners to explore opportunities for priming, joint venture, or subcontracting that would increase Caelum revenues and profitability. The work location is at Caelum’s HQ in Rockville, Maryland.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead or coordinate to develop short and long-range goals/objectives and business opportunities pipeline focusing on U.S. Federal agencies.
• Develop and recommend strategies to capitalize on the company’s existing technical strengths, and the development of new capabilities.
• Lead or coordinate in new business capture and pursuit activities; champion multi-discipline or cross-functional teams in proposal preparation activities.
• Designate the necessary resources to produce strong, effective, and winning new business captures and proposals.
• Lead or support a team mindset within the company and develop appropriate teaming or joint venture partners.
• Manage the BD Team in reporting activities, pipeline development, and revenue forecasting.

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports directly to Caelum’s President.
• Interfaces with representatives from government customers, vendors, and teaming partners.
• Interfaces with Caelum’s other executives regularly, and with contracts’ program/ project managers and other support staff as needed.
• Provide weekly activities report and post in Caelum’s secured cloud-base Business Intelligence Center website and lead weekly BD meeting.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• At least 5 years demonstrated previous successful relevant work experience.
• In-depth direct knowledge of the Fed Government contracting acquisition processes.
• Established relationships with potential customers.
• General IT knowledge or technical background that would facilitate in understanding technical requirements.
• Confident, self-assured demeanor, with excellent interpersonal relationship skills.
• No college degree is required, but a B.S. in Engineering, Science, Computer Science, or related field is preferred.
• Other advanced study, training, and certification is desirable.

COMPENSATION AND OTHER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT HIRE:

• Base salary is open, depending upon the background and experience of the successful candidate.
• This position is an incentive-oriented position; besides base salary and full fringe benefits, there will be additional incentive compensation IAW revenues/profits generated by the successful candidate.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The essential functions of this position are in the office environment with use of computers, and local and occasionally out-of-town travels. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Caelum is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

Point of Contact:

Please submit your resume to Careers-HQ@caelum.com.

About Caelum:

Caelum was founded in 1987.  It is currently supporting DoD, NOAA and other Fed agencies with an excellent reputation. Please consult www.caelum.com for more detailed information.

Disclaimer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

POSITION TITLE:  Technical writer

POSITION SUMMARY:  Supports documentation and various presentation requirements on Caelum’s Information Management contract, in support of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Science and Technology in Silver Spring, MD.

POSITION SCOPE:

Develop and maintain technical documentation, such as System Design, Disaster Recovery, Architecture, technical procedure manuals, user manuals, programming manuals, operational specifications, and related technical publications.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Prepare technical product documentation and new release highlights for clients.
2. Review, edit, and develop internal processes and documents.
3. Develop curriculum and documentation for application and system training
4. Design, develop, deliver, evaluate, and maintain training in a variety of formats, including in-person (i.e., small- and large-group, one-on-one), webinars, screen capture and video.
5. Produce and maintain training materials, including participant guides, job aids, quick reference guides, and knowledge articles
6. Work with internal subject matter experts, as needed, to ensure training content relevancy and accuracy

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

*          Reports to Caelum Team Lead.

*          Works closely with the NMFS stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum B.S.
• 2 or more years’ experience in relevant work.
• Strong history of translating technical findings into concise, engaging, and actionable content that is written for specialist and no specialist audiences
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively technical specifications and instructions to a wide range of audiences

COMPENSATION AND OTHER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT HIRE:

*          Base salary open, depending upon background and experience of successful candidate.

Position Title: Senior-level Technical Program Manager (onsite)

National Ocean Service (NOS) is a Line Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

Location: Silver Spring, MD

Experience and Certification Requirements:

Certification in Program Management, (e.g. Project Management Professional [PMP] from the Project Management Institute or Federal FAC-P/PM) is required.

ITIL certification;

Minimum eight (8) years of experience managing a performance-based Contract at a civilian Federal agency.

Technical Skill Requirements:

• Experience implementing and managing a Continual Process Improvement program leveraging ITIL practices; ·
• Demonstrated knowledge of frameworks for operations and service delivery, especially for Microsoft environments.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively organize, direct, and manage contract operation support functions involving multiple, complex and interrelated project actions.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at senior levels within a customer organization.
• Demonstrated ability to meet with customer and Contractor personnel to formulate and review project action plans and deliverable items, and effectively execute in accordance with approved plans.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Federal contracting regulations with regards to managing a Contractor program.

Familiarity with Federal governance frameworks such as Capital Planning Investment Control (CPIC), the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), and Risk Management Framework (RMF)

Job Description: Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs. Familiar with relational database concepts, and client-server concepts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks.

Must be proficient in SQL and UNIX. Including writing UNIX scripts, developing SQL, store procedures, creating triggers, views, etc.

Qualifications Required:  Requires BS/BA in appropriate field (or equivalent) and 4 to 6 years’ experience. Must be experienced in data analysis, UNIX scripting and developing SQL, store procedures, triggers, views, etc.

Certification Required: None

Clearance Required: U.S. Citizen and Background Investigation (BI)

Position Description

Supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) in La Jolla, CA as they continue to work to integrate the Federal Data Maturity Model. Will work closely with government personnel and other partners to document our business processes surrounding the collecting, processing, management, analysis and visualization of data. Specific job duties may include but are not limited to:

• Gather and document SWFSC current data management practices including all business processes (e.g. collecting, processing, management, analysis and visualization of data, publishing, and archiving)
• Provide support to fulfill the goal of managing data to facilitate the science mandates (i.e. Stock Assessments) of our Center and to serve data to our constituents —  to establish Center wide data management practices, standards, and policies.
• Coordinate effort for the entire Center, horizontally across divisions and programs as well as vertically link to national/Federal data maturity model and data management requirements.
• Assess and support technology improvements/selection/direction and that being used for our data management operations.
• Implement technologies and provide system/user documentation as well as user training to support ongoing data governance

Required skills:

• Two years of experience directly related to the position.
• Must have experience:
• Communicating technical information both orally and in writing, coordinating meetings
• Working with the life cycle of data
• Excellent communication and Writing Skills
• Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident and be able to pass a background investigation to obtain a security badge to enter the applicable government facility.
• Education: BS in Information Science, or a related/equivalent discipline

POSITION TITLE:  Web Developer IV

POSITION SUMMARY:  Works on a collaborative team to maintain and enhance the website for the NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), which is the repository for public facing work of a large, highly sophisticated R&D organization.

POSITION SCOPE:

The candidate will be responsible for content management and website architecture, ensuring currency and viability of all links including many related programs and special projects within STAR. Works closely with the STAR webmaster, STAR IT, office scientists and senior technical managers to develop and refine content and development approaches.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Manages website content ensuring currency and compliance with NOAA and other Federal standards for web presentation including 508a, and OMB Circular 130.
2. Works with system administrators to test and install new sites, capabilities, and updates.
3. Integrates a wide variety of web presentation platforms including GIS, and 3 and 4 dimensional animations.
4. Consults with and supports in-house scientists and analysts who either contribute to or manages their own website within STAR.
5. Develops and manages web content using a variety of development and content management tools.
6. Provides interpretive and visualization analysis to help translate technical and programmatic concepts into web mock ups and pages.
7. Provides editorial guidance and improvements to narrative site inputs.

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum Team Lead.
• Supports and coordinates a variety of scientific domain specialists and researchers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum B.S. in a technical field or comparable experience.
• 8 or more years’ experience as a web developer and/or web master.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills; incumbent will find themselves improving, explaining, and synthesizing both technical approaches and site content in support of science efforts.
• Experience in using and customizing Apache Web Serve.
• Experience with a variety of web languages and editors including html, CSS, Jquery, responsive frameworks, Javascript, and PHP.
• Familiarity with tools and techniques for delivering chart output in vector (SVG) formats.
• Experience with content management system/collaboration tools such as Drupal, WordPress, or others.
• Experience with image generation from scientific data inputs – no specific languages required, but familiarity with image generation from Python, IDL, McIDAS or similar would be very helpful.
• Knowledge of web usability and accessibility principles and applications.
• Must have basic ability with Photoshop or similar. Demonstrated experience in graphic design and presentation highly desirable.
• Experience in developing and managing scientific websites is highly desirable.

COMPENSATION AND OTHER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT HIRE:

• Base salary open, depending upon background and experience of successful candidate.

 

WEB DESIGNER/DEVELOPER IV Performs website design and creation. Plans, designs, develops, tests, edits, maintains, and documents look and flow of websites in cooperation with STAR’s existing staff. Develops and implements standards and templates across the organization. Interviews clients to help them clarify their goals for establishing a website. Designs or supervises design of digitized images, banners, bullets, charts, image maps and other graphics to enhance appearance of site. Requires knowledge of programming techniques and computer internet systems. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision; typically reports to a project leader or manager. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. BS/BA degree in a related area (or equivalent), and 6 to 8 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

Position Description

Will provide software engineering and application development services within Office of Science and Technology (OST) in accordance with its mission.  Will serve as development lead or development team member on multiple, concurrent web-based, database-driven, custom application development projects. Perform system requirements analysis, application design, development, testing and implementation.  Will develop applications based on user requirements including user interface, database development, and middle-tier application components.

RESPONSIBILITIES/REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong facility with multiple software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Experience in database design, data modeling, normal form and developing relational database models.
• Knowledge in writing packages/procedures for JAVA facing applications.
• Write database triggers, PL/SQL, and packages according to the business requirements
• Experienced with Linux Shell scripting
• Assist the development team in the design, development, testing, tuning and implementation of database applications.
• Create and maintain SQL queries and routines.
• Produce ad-hoc reports in SQL.
• Design and develop oracle database applications.
• Design & develop application user interface using current Oracle technologies such as Oracle web services, APEX, Web logic, java libraries, etc.
• Experience in using SQL Developer, Data Modeler, TOAD, etc.
• Develop logical and physical data models using SQL Data Modeler based on business requirements. Ensure data models conform to existing business standards.
• Work with complex data models and object relational database mapping, while producing complex reports.
• Ensures that application design is scalable and maintainable.
• Ensures that all deliverables are thoroughly documented.

Minimum of 10 years of hands-on PL/SQL development experience.

Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident and be able to pass a background investigation to obtain a security badge to enter the applicable government facility.

Education

BS in computer science, related discipline, or equivalent.

POSITION TITLE:  Meta Data Taxonomy Specialist

POSITION SCOPE:

Supports enterprise data management and metadata development and management for NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS), Office of Science and Technology (OS&T).  This position interfaces with personnel across NOAA, NMFS, as well as stakeholders outside of NOAA to help ensure consistent, high quality data management for fisheries data. Work is performed at the NOAA location at 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordination with NOAA stakeholders in academia and other government agencies to develop working agreements regarding data quality, metadata and data sharing partnerships.
• Develop standards and reference models for various cross cutting fisheries parameters and metrics
• Support agency efforts to satisfy ISO 11915 which defines the schema required for describing geographic information and services by means of metadata
• Support NMFS requirements for NOAA’s Big Data public/private partnership including data analysis and cleansing
• Develops and manages requirements for the Enterprise metadata management system.
• Provide technical and strategic support for the NMFS information architect.
• Analyze data standards and strategies reflected in OS&T applications to ensure consistent coherent use of terminologies and underlying metadata.

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum’s on-site Program Manager
• Receives technical guidance and strategic direction from the NMFS information architect.
• Works closely with software engineers and developers who support OS&T systems and requirements, proving guidance and oversight of data applications.
• Participates in data management meetings within and NMFS and across the NOAA enterprise.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum B.S/B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency, with a minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in data management, preferably in support of environmental data requirements.
• Experience with end-to-end metadata management.
• Experience implementing enterprise-wide metadata solutions.
• Experience with semantic technologies e.g. taxonomies, ontologies.
• Working knowledge of the ISO 19100 series, particularly the ISO 19115 metadata schema.
• Experience and demonstrable expertise with one or more of the following technologies:
  • SQL
  • org dataset tags.
  • Resource Description Framework (RDF)
  • Web Ontology Language (OWL)
  • XML
  • Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS).
• Experience supporting matrixed collaborative data management and analysis.
• Experience in a NOAA or other U.S Government particularly in support of a science mission is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of reference data practices.
• Knowledge of master data management principles.
• Experience in a application development environment is desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

COMPENSATION AND OTHER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT HIRE:

*          Base salary open, depending upon background and experience of successful candidate.

POSITION TITLE:  Linux Admin/IT support for NOAA’s Ocean Surface Winds Science Team (OSWST)

POSITION SCOPE:

This position serves as the principal systems administrator and IT resource for the Ocean Surface Winds Science Team in NOAA’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) at NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Predictions in College Park, Maryland. The OSWST operates an environment that includes 15 Linux CentOS servers and one Solaris Server, 1.4 Petabytes of mostly JBOD storage, Apache Web servers. OSWST performs experiments on NOAA P3 airplanes; the supported environment includes systems and sensor interfaces that reside on those planes.

 RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide systems administration and general support for the OSWST infrastructure
• Serve as the principal IT resource as member of a small team of scientists and analysts who collect, process, and analyze data to study and model Ocean Surface wind, using data collected via satellite and air based experiments
• Administer, monitor and maintain all Linux servers including unboxing, provisioning, baseline configuration, ongoing configuration management, patching, and de-commissioning
• Perform Tier 2-3 helpdesk support on OSWST systems
• Monitor system performance and resource utilization
• Assist with patching and developing and implementing firewall rules and security controls
• Follow and support STAR Configuration Management practices
• Manage OSWST Apache based public web services
• Manage and monitor perimeter security devices including firewalls
• Setup and manage hardware and software JBOD storage systems
• Maintain documentation regarding system configurations and processes
• Support the OSWST data collection mission including participation in P3 based data collection efforts. Some of these experiments can be in severe weather.

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum NOAALink Program Manager
• Receives technical guidance and priorities from the Government Task Manager and the OSWST Team Lead
• Works with Caelum’s STAR IT Team for collaboration and cross support
• Interacts and collaborates regularly with Federal and contract employees of within the STAR

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum B.S/B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• Demonstrated proficiency, with a minimum of 6 years’ relevant experience as a Linux Systems Administrator
• Experience and demonstrable expertise with the following technologies:
  • CentOS Solaris
  • Ability to compile software packages from source (FORTRAN and IDL)
  • TCP/IP Networking and Firewalls
  • Syslog, TCP Wrappers, DMZ implementation principles
  • Change management
  • Apache web servers
  • Scripting: Bash, perl, python, ruby, etc.
• Experience with the following is valuable:
  • TCP/UP, UDP, DNS, iptables, and NFS
  • Programming: Compiling, linking, debugging, etc.
• Experience working on a science/research based technical team
• Experience in a NOAA or other U.S Government particularly in support of a science mission is desirable
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to pass NOAA’s water survival safety on-line training requirements

COMPENSATION AND OTHER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT HIRE:

*Base salary open, depending upon background and experience of successful candidate*

Technical Writer I.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in English, Journalism, Technical Writing, Mass Communications, Science or Engineering

Job Description

This is a wage determined position. See job description in SCA Directory of Occupations. Additional responsibilities include:

• Assist in developing, writing, and editing material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical and administrative publications concerned with work methods and procedures, and installation, operation, and maintenance of machinery and other equipment.
• Observe production, developmental, and experimental activities to document operating procedures and details.
• Interview production and engineering personnel and read journals, reports, and other material to become familiar with product technologies and production methods.
• Review manufacturer’s and trade catalogs, drawings and other data relative to operation, maintenance, and service of equipment.
• Organize material and complete writing assignments according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
• Review published materials and recommend revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction and binding.
• Maintain records and files of work and revisions.  Select photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material.
• Assist in laying out material for publication.
• Arrange for typing, duplication and distribution of material.
• Write speeches, articles, and public or employee relations releases.
• Edit, standardize, or make changes to material prepared by other writers or plant personnel.
• When required, write material regarding work methods and procedures.
• When required, support test directors/engineers in the field.
• Other duties as assigned.