Position/Title:            Administrative Assistant

Reports To:                Senior Vice President

Work Location:         Rockville, MD

Position Summary:   Coordinates general administrative activities for Caelum HQ Office. Also, responsible for overall front office activities, including the reception area, mail, purchasing requests and facilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages the reception area to ensure effective telephone and communications in professional manner.
• Planning events such as scheduling appointments for executives, planning corporate parties, luncheons, etc.
• Maintains the office areas and equipment, as well as the layout, arrangement, and housekeeping of office facilities.
• Supervises and maintains office equipment, including copier, postage and fax machines, etc.
• Negotiates the purchase of office supplies, furniture, and equipment, etc., for the HQ and field staff in accordance with company purchasing policies and budget.
• Coordinates and makes travel arrangements for corporate personnel.
• Responsible for the facilities’ day-to-day operations (such as distributing building access keys and back-up to security access cards, etc.)
• Participates (as needed) in special department projects.
• Reconciles and prepares monthly reports, purchase order (PO) reports, establishes and maintains adequate office supplies, purchases and coordinates product deliveries, assists in receiving inspection of purchased items, creates open market purchases, maintains logs and files for purchases, coordinates availability/substitution of orders with appropriate parties.
• Other responsibilities include documentation of purchase system deficiencies, training and coordinating with field managers on any purchasing policies and procedures.
• Coordinating communication (including sending packages) between HQ and field locations.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• High level of accuracy and attention to details.
• Strong work ethic.
• Good planning and organizing skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Professional appearance and manner.
• Computer literacy, specifically MS Office applications to include SharePoint.
• Working knowledge of mail processes such as postage machine, Federal Express and UPS.
• Ability to negotiate office supplies and travel purchases effectively.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to approximately 15 lbs.

Education/Experience:

• At least high School Diploma and additional education or training desirable.
• Two years of experience in office administration is desirable.
• Experience in ISO quality systems a plus.

Compensation and Other Financial Consideration at Hire:

• Base salary or hourly rate is depending on background and experience of successful candidate.
• This position is an incentive-oriented position; in addition to base salary and comprehensive fringe benefits, this position will be eligible for additional incentive compensations directly related to candidate’s job performance.

Please submit questions and resumes to: Careers-HQ@Caelum.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer:

Caelum is an Equal Opportunity Employer – does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, military status, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, political preference or disability in employment or the provision of service.

Disclaimer:

The preceding job description describes 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: Full Stack Java Developer

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. Additional duties will include but are not limited to:

• Develop new user-facing features
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Ensure that application design is scalable and maintainable.
• Ensure that all deliverables are thoroughly documented.

Required Skills
10+ years of experience in application development. Must have thorough understanding of all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Must have experience working in client-facing projects and with end users. Must have experience working on fast-paced projects with matrix teams. Experience eliciting business requirements from business users, developing functional requirements based on the business requirements, and producing detailed requirements documentation. Demonstrated proficiency in Java, JavaScript. Must have strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Must be creative with the ability to understand and work with complex and abstract concepts.

Desired:

• Knowledge of .xml file construction and parsing as well as other extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process and tools.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Strong understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS
• Good understanding of jQuery, AngularJS, and Dojo frameworks
• Basic sql understanding.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Basic understanding of Java and developing web applications with it

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: Service Desk Specialist

POSITION SUMMARY:  Serves as a member of a service desk team supporting NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS) in Silver Spring, MD.  The 7 person team provides Tier I and Tier II support for the NOS headquarters staff as well as the International Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and National Marine Sanctuary staff.  Work is performed at the NOAA Silver Spring Metro Center complex at 1305 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports customer inquiries, requests and incidents, following ITIL best practices.
• Responds to telephone calls, email and personnel requests for technical support from end users with direction from the team lead.
• Supports technical support for various special projects associated with system deployments and configurations.
• Identifies, researches, and resolves technical problems.
• Escalates issues to the appropriate level and specialists.
• Documents, tracks and monitors incidents and problems in a Jira automated ticketing/service management system to ensure timely resolution.

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

*   Reports to the Service Desk Team Lead.

• Interacts regularly with Federal personnel and other NOS customers in Silver Spring.
• May support technical personnel in the Office and National Marine Sanctuaries field offices.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in use of a Service Desk ticket management tool, preferably Jira,
• Excellent communications skills
• Seasoned knowledge and expertise with Microsoft office applications,
• Experience using and supporting Mac OS systems highly desirable
• Hold or able to quickly secure certifications such as:
  • Help Desk Institute certification, especially for Service Desk Management
  • Security certification (Comp TIA A+)
  • ITIL Foundations certification
  • MCTS in Windows Operating System (Windows 10 or higher) or Mac OS certification

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Experience in support of a Federal IT environment is highly desirable.

COMPENSATION AND OTHER FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS AT HIRE:

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

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.