Expert Software Systems Architect

Job Description

Strategic ACI is seeking an Expert Software Systems Architect to join our team. Strategic ACI provides specialized systems engineering, integration, testing, and data production support to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), and Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL). The work involves leading a software team that is designing, developing, curating, and testing Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) methods for mounted US Army applications.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Government stakeholders to understand priorities and timelines.
• Work with Program Management Staff to develop project and sprint schedules and milestones, and direct tasking across a project team to meet project objectives.
• Organize and task 5-8 team members from government, industry, and academia with objectives, and provide organization, support, and technical advice.
• Utilize knowledge and skills in software design and development, GIS and remote sensing applications for digital image and GIS processing, analysis, visualization.
• Integrate and disseminate software tools for use across Army and other DoD/DoW systems and architectures.
• Work with GRL, ERDC Laboratories, Army Portfolio Acquisition Executives (PAEs) and Capability Program Executives (CPEs) to understand existing positioning requirements.
• Apply software design, collaborative tools, understanding of computational architectures, hardware integration, and Agile methods to solve complex challenges related to assured positioning and navigation within GPS denied environments.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active Secret Clearance.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Geography, Remote Sensing, Computer Science or related discipline.
• 20+ years of experience in a related field (GIS Production, GEOINT, Geospatial Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, etc.).
• Experience in developing software with C++.
• Experience working with Digital Surface Models, LIDAR and Aerial Imagery to collect and compile data into structured databases.
• Experience with collaborative software tools.
• Experience supporting software tools across multiple operating systems and compute environments.
• Ability to develop and present effective technical presentations.
• Experience in Microsoft Office applications, graphic/visual diagram editing.
• Ability to develop and maintain individual milestones and schedules to meet program objectives.
• Experience with Esri ArcGIS Software.
• Familiarity working with LiDAR Point Clouds, Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and other 3D data sources.
• Experience deriving 3D terrain surfaces from varying levels of detail and accuracy.
• Familiarity with 3D terrain formats.

Desired:

• Active Top Secret Clearance/SCI
• Familiarity with QGIS.
• Familiarity with industry and open-source geospatial data schemas and formats (Ex. Shapefiles, Geodatabase, GeoPackage, OSM, XML, JSON, GeoJSON, etc.).
• Production process automation and enhancement.
• Scripting for data translation and process automation (Ex. Python, R, JavaScript, SQL, etc.).

About Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc



Strategic Alliance Consulting Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.



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Why choose a career with Strategic ACI?



Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc. believes that our greatest asset is our employees. Our goal is not to meet our staff's expectations, but to exceed them. Competitive salaries, work-life balance, industry leading benefits packages, and family first values are at the core of Strategic ACI's culture.



We're proud the be selected as a 2020 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal (WBJ), as well as being 1 of 19 Virginia based companies to be awarded the prestigious HIRE Vets Gold Medallion by the Department of Labor for our commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.



Your Strategic ACI Total Rewards Compensation Package includes:

• Competitive salary


• 100% benefits paid (Includes; health, dental, and vision plan premiums) for all full time employees and their families


• 401k with 5% match vested at day one!


• Profit sharing commensurate with company growth


• PTO - 3 weeks and 3 days per year


• 11 Company Paid Holidays (aligned with Federal Government)


• Long term/Short term disability


• 1.5x salary life insurance


• $100 per month cell phone allowance


• $6000 cash in lieu of benefits per year if employee is insured elsewhere


• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year for college or professional certifications


• Casual dress code, company lunches, flexible schedules, employee phone plan discounts