8+ years of experience:

• Experience with the State Department required.
• Secret Clearance Required.
• Adapts functional business requirements and processes to technical solutions based upon comprehensive enterprise application solution sets.
• Enterprise resource planning and management processes, including but not limited to: knowledge management, investment analysis, data warehousing, e-commerce, return on investment analysis, human resource analysis, material management and logistics, supply chain management, procurement, ordering, manufacturing, decision support, and information dissemination.
• ITIL v3 Foundation, ITIL v3 Expert (desired).
• Technical Team Lead certifications, such as MCSE, CISSP(s), MCDA, and CCNP.

10+ years of experience:

• Experience with the State Department required.
• Secret Clearance Required.
• Coordinates the data administration technical function for both data warehouse development and maintenance.
• Facilitates change control, problem management, and communication among data architects, programmers, analysts, and engineers.
• Establishes and enforces processes to ensure a consistent, well managed, and well integrated data warehouse infrastructure.
• Designs, implements and supports data warehousing.
• Implements business rules via stored procedures, middleware, or other technologies.
• Defines user interfaces and functional specifications.
• ITIL v3 Foundation, ITIL v3 Expert (desired).
• Technical Team Lead certifications, such as MCSE, CISSP(s), MCDA, and CCNP.

POSITION SUMMARY: Support Information Security activities for the Office of Science and Technology (OS&T) of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service including an environment that comprises an array of scientific web based data management, analysis, and presentation based systems within a hybrid Linux and Windows environment that relies heavily on Oracle database services.

MUST BE U.S. CITIZEN OR GREEN CARD HOLDER.

POSITION SCOPE: Overall responsibility as the Information System Security Specialist for the Fisheries Office of Science and Technology and must have expertise in both the applicable regulations and underlying technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the information security function in accordance with the established policies and guidelines.
• Establish and maintain information security policies, procedures, and guidelines pursuant to the Department of Commerce, NOAA, and NMFS requirements, as well as, State and Federal laws and regulations such as the Federal Information Security Act (FISMA).
• Perform vulnerability scans.
• Conduct IT Security Awareness Training, Contingency Plan Training and Incident Response Training.
• Conduct and perform continuous monitoring pursuant to NIST Guidelines and NMFS OCIO requirements.
  • Assess security throughout the SDLC for systems and applications
  • Participate in the System and Application Change Control Board.
• Function as an internal consulting resource on information security issues
• Conduct the information security risk assessment program
• Review compliance with the information security policy and associated procedures
• Assist in coordinating contingency plan tests on a regular basis
• Perform tasks related to the system Certification and Accreditations (C&A) and follow the Government IT security policies and standards. Task related to but not limited to:
  • IT Acquisition Risk Assessments
  • Application Risk Assessments as a member of the Change Control Board
  • System Risk Assessments
• Program Responsibilities include:
  • System Security Plan (SSP)
  • Information Security Risk Assessment
  • Contingency Plan (CP)
  • Tests of the Contingency Plans
  • Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M)
  • All supporting Documentations identified in the C&A processes

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum Program Lead.
• Matrixed support of and coordination with the NMFS OCIO IT Security Officer
• Direct support for the system owner

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum B.S. in Engineering, Science, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum 6-8 years in Information Assurance with complementary experience in development or systems administration highly desirable.
• Thorough understanding of and experience with NIST FISMA guidelines
• NOAA or Department of Commerce experience desirable
• Recognized security certifications such as CISSP, GSEC, CISA, etc. highly desirable
• Experience with scanning tools like Burp Suite and WebInspect desireable

Responsibilities: Top level technical contributor with expertise in Information Technology cradle to grave processes related to applications and infrastructure. Responsible for documenting existing operations and practices; analyzing those operations and practices against documented best practices and developing a plan of actions and milestones to evolve to the best practices. Acts as a member of a team responsible for providing technical guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems.

Education: BA/BS

Experience:

• Must hold a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent.
• 5 years of relevant experience.
• Providing extensibility assessment supporting Momentum 7.x upgrades
• Performing system test cases supporting Momentum 7.x upgrades
• Developing implementation plans supporting the implementation of Momentum Core Financials from the legacy environments capturing business, interface, and reporting requirements
• Developing target state process maps and procedural steps that supported the strategy of implementing Momentum Core Financials and Momentum Performance Budgeting from legacy environments
• Planning and conceptual design, business process modeling and reengineering, development of requirement specifications, system design and application configuration, system testing, and training and communications in support of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations and migration efforts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Tests functional components of information systems according to project specifications.
• Identifies and documents functional requirements for information systems.
• Provides functional analysis support to software development teams.
• Specific DOD financial and Comptroller experience and knowledge of DOD financial and budget processes.
• Expert knowledge of and experience with the Momentum software and its use in the Federal government environment.

Compensation:

Caelum offers comprehensive fringe benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(K), holidays, vacation, and sick leaves. Base salary is commensurate with education and experience. A year-end or spot bonus is offered for outstanding performance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Caelum is an EOE, offering equal opportunity for any qualified individuals regardless of gender, race, religion, sex orientation, or physical handicap. Caelum especially encourages U.S. veteran for application.

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.

Description: Provides high-level architectural expertise to managers and technical staff. Develops architectural products and deliverables for the enterprise and operational business lines. Advises on selection of technological purchases with regards to processing, data storage, data access, and applications development. Sets standards for the client/server relational database structure for the organization (SQL, ORACLE, SYBASE, etc.). Advises of feasibility of potential future projects to management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops benchmarks and performs elaborate analyses and studies.
• Develops reports and makes presentations to contractor management and senior client representatives.
• Applies knowledge of computer science principles, information management principles, ADP functions, hardware and software systems’ structures and operation, and computer programming languages and techniques to solve automation problems.
• Interface with and use minicomputer and mainframe computer systems in addressing project objectives.
• Use standard or conventional approaches, methods and techniques to define, plan, organize, design, develop, modify, test and integrate database or data processing systems, computer hardware and software systems and simulation models.
• Assist in formulating architectural design, functional specifications, interfaces and documentation of hardware or software systems.
• Use detailed specifications and adapt standardized techniques, methods, criteria and precedents to develop or modify portions of a system or program.
• Responsible for segments or phases of broader, more complex projects.
• Expert knowledge of and experience with the Momentum software and its use in the Federal government environment.
• The Technical Expert shall hold a professional certification: Cybersecurity/Information Assurance at the IAM/IAT III level.

Minimum Experience:

• Ten (10) years relevant experience
• Managing upgrades to Momentum software and deployment into Government hosted environments
• Establishing the infrastructure to support the Momentum projects, managing the conversion of EFD Production data, and upgrading custom EFD functionality to include interfaces and reports for Momentum 7.x
• Leading performance benchmark tasks for the Momentum Product Engineering group.
• Profiling and optimizing many components of the Momentum architecture.
• Designing and presenting technical solutions to gain approvals.
• Automating parts of the Momentum build and deployment process
• Developing technical designs for Momentum Product Engineering.
• Preparing architectural requirements and designs.
• Using Rational Unified Process to develop numerous software features for Momentum.
• Leveraging Agile and other iterative and incremental development methodologies for other software projects.
• Managing technical design and development phases of Momentum product releases.

Required Skills:

• Must have an active DOD Secret Clearance at time of proposal submission.
• IA Level: IAM II
• Relevant certification from a nationally recognized technical authority.

Compensation:

Caelum offers comprehensive fringe benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(K), holidays, vacation, and sick leaves. Base salary is commensurate with education and experience. A year-end or spot bonus is offered for outstanding performance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Caelum is an EOE, offering equal opportunity for any qualified individuals regardless of gender, race, religion, sex orientation, or physical handicap. Caelum especially encourages U.S. veteran for application.

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.

Minimum Requirement: Must hold a Project or Program Management certification (i.e. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other equivalent/recognized Project or Program Management certification); Project or Program Management certifications from accredited institutions are required. Examples from government and commercial sources include, but are not limited to the Defense Acquisition University, The Program Management Institute, Department of Veterans Affairs as well as Universities and Colleges. Substitutes for a Project or Program Management Certification such as training, degrees or relevant experience, will be considered and must clearly state how the credentials are equivalent to the certifications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Directs contractor resource teams and reviews work products for completeness and accuracy to customer requirements.
• Provides communication to the EFD PMO and the COR to review project plans, status reports, and deliverables.
• Develops overall project milestones and monitors the execution of the project against planned time lines.
• Directs and reviews program plans, status reports, and deliverables with program director and project teams.
• Provides technical and functional management to one or more project teams for specific projects or sub-tasks.
• Project management of technically and functionally diverse IT programs to include system and data exchange design, development and implementation.
• Ability to interface with all areas affected by the project including end users, computer services and client services.
• The Project Manager (Master/Manager) shall hold a professional certification Program Management (PMP), Acquisition (DAWIA Level III) or industry equivalent DAWIA Level III experience.
• Strong ability to develop, maintain and brief Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).

Experience:

• Have 5 years of experience in program management; and 10 years of leadership experience with progressively higher responsibility in the public and/or private sector in the IT and/or consulting fields;
• Have experience with the Information Technology Acquisition process and its milestones;
• Have experience in analyzing a variety of source documentation and supporting the creation of acquisition documentation.
• Managing an upgrade of Momentum, & EFD processes and upgrade custom interfaces and reports to DOD or other similar agency.
• Leading teams through all phases of the Momentum software development life cycle (requirements, configuration, design/development, testing, conversion of legacy data, and implementation).
• Leading verification and validation efforts through system integration testing, system acceptance testing, and user acceptance testing, ensuring that test plans were developed in accordance with established standards and that software and interfaces met functional and technical requirements.

Compensation:

Caelum offers comprehensive fringe benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(K), holidays, vacation, and sick leaves. Base salary is commensurate with education and experience. A year-end or spot bonus is offered for outstanding performance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Caelum is an EOE, offering equal opportunity for any qualified individuals regardless of gender, race, religion, sex orientation, or physical handicap. Caelum especially encourages U.S. veteran for application.

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.

Minimum Requirement: This is designed for other than Information Technology functional expertise, but the expertise is required to support an IT task. Provides task-unique functional expertise necessary to interpret requirements, ensure responsiveness and achieve successful performance. Advises IT consultants with the analysis, evaluation and implementation of systems and other IT tasks. This is a non-management position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed, functional system and program specifications using structured design methodologies and tools.
• Acts as a liaison between the internal customers and IT departments to ensure customer requirements are accurately documented and communicated.
• Analyze, identify, gather, and document requested user modifications via standard requirements documents, flow charting and demonstration systems.
• Evaluates and makes recommendations relating to ongoing programs; compiles data and coordinates resources that will be needed for project completion.
• Possess knowledge of and experience with the Momentum software and its use in the Federal government environment.
• Strong knowledge of DOD financial and Comptroller experience and knowledge of DOD financial and budget processes
• Responsible for all functional System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) tasks pertaining to a software upgrade of Momentum Financials, including functional configuration, testing (SIT/UAT), reporting, and deploying an upgraded EFD solution that meets existing requirements.
• * Expert knowledge of and experience with the Momentum software and its use in the Federal government environment. * Specific DOD financial and Comptroller experience and knowledge of DOD financial and budget processes.

Experience:

• Have 5 years relevant experience.
• Conducting multiple requirements and functional configuration sessions with the OUSD and DFAS customer base in order to configure the Momentum and EFD application.
• Have successfully deployed system change requests to the Momentum application to meet the requirements of DOD.
• Using industry best practices e.g. PMBOK and CMMI to manager projects’ change and release management processes.
• Developing integrated project plans.
• Serving as an expert business and technical advisor to DOD with high customer satisfaction rate.
• Developing and reviewing functional and technical specification documents to ensure they met end-user requirements for business processes, reports, and system-to-system interfaces.
• Managing and leading system development activities such as project planning, business case analysis, requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, conversion, cutover, and training.

Compensation:

Caelum offers comprehensive fringe benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(K), holidays, vacation, and sick leaves. Base salary is commensurate with education and experience. A year-end or spot bonus is offered for outstanding performance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Caelum is an EOE, offering equal opportunity for any qualified individuals regardless of gender, race, religion, sex orientation, or physical handicap. Caelum especially encourages U.S. veteran for application.

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 SCOPE:

This position supports the NOAA Office of the CIO Service Delivery Division (SDD), serving as a Helpdesk Specialist supporting NOAA’s Grants OnLine system, which is used to manage all aspects of the Grants Management process for NOAA and other Department of Commerce (DoC) bureaus. Work is primarily performed at the NOAA offices in Germantown, MD.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works as a member of a small technical team charged with transitioning existing DoC Bureau Grants Management systems into NOAA’s Grants OnLine, which is the DoC standard system. The team captures external dependencies and data and process requirements of the legacy systems and enhances the NOAA systems to ensure that Bureau requirements are supported. Grants Online supports over 11,000 Federal and external grantee users who participate in the Grants process for NOAA and other affiliated Commerce Bureaus. Support activities include:
  • Enhance Grants Online end-to-end enterprise web applications
  • Assist with standardizing development environment and system architecture
  • Develop and track technical system requirements
  • Provide level of effort and project plan documentation to the designated PMs, as required
  • Must be able to interpret and leverage data model/data dictionary artifacts prepared by the application DB.

REPORTING / INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum Grants OnLine Program Manager
• Receives technical guidance and priorities from the Government Task Manager
• Works closely with other team members including developers, data modelers, business analysts as well as Bureau business and technical personnel
• Works collaboratively to support data, IT, and business line stakeholders

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in IT, mathematics, or related business field and and eight more years’ experience.
• Experience with NOAA is highly desirable
• Experience with Grants OnLine or other Federal Grants Management System is highly desirable
• Experience and expertise in Oracle
• Experience and expertise with WebLogic
• Java development and software framework experience required
• Team leadership experience is desirable
• Experience at NOAA or other U.S Government experience 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 SCOPE:

This position supports the NOAA Office of the CIO Service Delivery Division (SDD), serving as a Helpdesk Specialist supporting NOAA’s Grants OnLine system, which is used to manage all aspects of the Grants Management process for NOAA and other Department of Commerce (DoC) bureaus. Work is primarily performed at the NOAA offices in Germantown, MD.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works as a member of a small team of Help Desk specialists who provide technical and subject matter support for the 10,000 plus Federal and external grantee users who participate in the Grants process for NOAA and other affiliated Commerce Bureaus. Support includes:
  • Receive, analyze, and record user inquiries and performance concerns
  • Create and manage tickets describing questions, incidents, requests, and problems in NOAA’s Kayako Ticket Management System
  • Support end users where possible with information and advice about Grants OnLine and the NOAA/DoC Grants process
  • Escalate issues as needed to more senior technical staff and subject matter experts
  • Support test activities in support of new capabilities and corrective measures
  • Support and, as appropriate, lead test training

REPORTING / INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum Grants OnLine Program Manager
• Receives technical guidance and priorities from the Government Task Manager
• Works closely with a small team of developers, other help desk specialists and analysts to achieve customer goals and objectives
• Works collaboratively to support data, IT, and business line stakeholders

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum Associates Degree and two or more year’s experience related to Federal Grants Processing
• Help Desk experience is highly desirable
• Experience with NOAA’s Grants OnLine is extremely desirable
• ITIL Foundation certification
• Experience with the following is valuable:
  • Kayako
  • JIRA
• Experience at NOAA or other U.S Government experience 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 SCOPE:

This position supports the NOAA Office of the CIO Service Delivery Division (SDD), serving as a senior MS SQL database administrator in support of many of NOAA’s major corporate systems supporting Financial, Work Force Management, Performance Management and other intranet requirements. Work is primarily performed at the NOAA Information Technology Center in Largo, MD, which also houses most of the related IT infrastructure.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as lead for MS SQL DBA for the SDD, responsible for supporting the web/database applications in Windows, IIS, SQL, ASP.NET environment.
• Full life cycle support includes:
  • Developing and validating data models and relationships
  • Developing and establishing database schema and related structures in conjunction with stakeholders, business analysts, and software engineers
  • Coordinating with developers and the data management team to analyze and articulate the impact of new or revised data sources
  • Advising and working with database developers
  • Monitoring and managing operational databases, tuning for performance, troubleshooting and working with systems administrators to implement patches or new releases
  • Supporting Caelum and NOAA configuration Management policies and procedures

REPORTING/INTERFACE RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to Caelum NOAALink Program Manager.
• Receives technical guidance and priorities from the Government Task Manager.
• Works closely with a small team of developers, other database administrators, and analysts to achieve customer goals and objectives.
• Works collaboratively to support data, IT, and business line stakeholders.
• Interacts regularly with Federal and contract employees within the NOAA Office of the CIO (OCIO), Service Delivery Division, and Systems Development Hosting Services Branch.
• Manages SDD ISS webservers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum B.S/B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency, with a minimum of 7 years’ relevant experience as a DBA.
• Experience and demonstrable expertise with the following technologies:
  • SQL Development
  • SQL Server
  • Internet Information Server (IIS)
• Experience with the following is valuable:
  • Kayako
  • JIRA
• Experience at NOAA or other U.S Government experience 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.