Advana Programming Support Specialists

Position: Advana Programming Support Specialists
Location: Norfolk Naval Base
Salary: Negotiable
Clearance: Secret

Qualifications:
Individual programmers must meet the following qualifications:

The contractor shall have a minimum of 5 years' experience in the fluent use of Microsoft Products - Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 3 years' experience in the fluent use of Tableau, Qlik, Jupiter/Advana and have an advanced ability in utilizing common programming languages to include SQL, NoSQL, Python, Java, R, and Scala.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 5 years' experience in developing, modifying, and maintaining assigned programs (SKED, CDMOA, OARS, VSB, OMMS-NG, MFOM, OIS, ADE, DRRS, NRAS, MNA, HERMES, C2OIX, and other programs as assigned and/or developed), designing and implementing modifications to the interrelation of data within programs.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 5 years' experience monitoring the operation of assigned programs, data collected and responds to problems by diagnosing and correcting errors in logic and coding.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 5 years' experience working on complex programs under close direction of higher-level staff or supervisor.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 5 years' experience in providing a full range of programming actions to produce several interrelated but different products from numerous and diverse data elements which are usually from different sources.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 5 years' experience developing, maintaining, managing, and securing naval systems.

The contractor shall have current administrative management and programming level access to operate in ADVANA/Jupiter.

In database security, programming-level access refers to the ability to access and manipulate data using programming languages and database APIs, while user-level access refers to the permissions granted to individual users or groups within the database system. Programming-level access is typically used by developers and administrators to interact with the database at a more granular level, while user-level access is used to control who can access specific data and perform specific actions.

The contractor shall have a minimum of 2 years' experience establishing enterprise performance management metrics, dashboards, dashboard functional proponents within Jupiter. A small number of programmers may be allowed not to meet all of the above qualifications but must receive government approval regarding specific qualification shortfalls.

Tasks:

Contractor will effectively communicate with executive level (GS-15, O-6 level) government personnel regarding specific tasks and challenges requiring assistance using senior level oral and written communication skills.

The contractor shall provide support collecting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting data using Naval Aviation databases, Naval Surface databases, Ship Maintenance databases, Shipyard databases, and Ship Supply databases. The contractor shall import daily/weekly/monthly data sources, running pre-programmed macros, and relaying issues experienced to the development team using their advanced experience working in MS Excel, Qlik, and Tableau.

The contractor shall validate outputs from Data Visualization tools (Tableau and Qlik as described above) with the raw data source.

The contractor shall adequately display information obtained in various charts, tables, and dashboards by having a working understanding of Jupiter/Advana, and be able to operate in this construct.

The contractor shall establish enterprise performance management metrics, dashboards, dashboard functional proponents within Jupiter.

The contractor shall be responsible for gathering and analyzing data, organizing, and documenting findings of studies, and prepare recommendations for implementing new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.

The contractor shall collate information into meaningful reports and presentation material.

The contractor shall provide metamorphose CVN raw data into viable and readable formats for display in Tableau and Qlik, for decision utilization by the ROC leadership.

The contractor shall design, build, test, blend, manage, and optimize all types of CVN data utilizing numerous sources, some described above.

The contractor shall utilize common programming languages to include SQL, NoSQL, Python, Java, R, and Scala.

The contractor shall effectively collaborate with other programming cells from various TYCOM/System Commands/Program Offices to allow the sharing and adaption of data and visualation products in ADVANA/Jupiter.