Systems Engineer

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

This position is for immediate hire.

Job Overview:

The Contractor's Office is accountable for clearance processing of all individuals with access to Sponsor data and facilities. The office is charged with fulfilling requirements in the most timely and efficient manner possible. The Contractor's office has requirements to communicate with various partners and Industrial and Independent Contractors using unsecure means. The Contractor seeks to gain efficiencies in communication and workflow processes by optimizing communication using cross domain network solutions (i.e., unsecure to secure network connections) in conjunction with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The Contractor needs specialized support in IT Program Management, Software Engineering, Test Engineering, and Systems Engineering.

This position will:

• Provide expertise and guidance in the procurement of cross domain solutions and maintain such solutions and systems for the Sponsor.
• Conduct research into all aspects of existing and future aspects of cross domain solutions the Contractor currently or could potentially leverage such as AWS ProServe.
• Recommend and perform implementation and integration strategies for cross domain solutions into existing Sponsor business practices and systems.
• Conduct O&M on Contractor cross domain platforms.
• Provide guidance to the Contractor regarding past, current, and future business practices.
• Develop and maintain cross domain system documentation.
• Attend regular meetings to understand and suggest requirements and workflow enhancements. The Contractor Team shall document meeting discussions.
• Build rapport with stakeholders and influence outcome of decisions on behalf of the Contractor.
• Contribute to data collection and analysis discussions and realign priorities and collection strategies during evolving mission priorities.
• Provide expertise to implement and integrate the Sponsors OCR software.
• Engineer solutions with OCR and data capture technology such as IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture, version 22.0.1.
• Enable the Contractor's OCR efforts to ingest multiple form types such as .pdf.
• Map their data fields to other forms of varying types, such as JSON. 
• Store and send all files to appropriate storage or destruction/deletion locations as necessary.
• Conduct full system development lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities, and design.
• Code, test and deploy a cross domain scheduling solution.
• Enable the Contractor's scheduling of tests between secure systems and unsecure systems.
• Provide written reports, spreadsheets, briefings and briefing material, technical solutions presentations, technical papers, analysis by specified timelines as directed by the Contractor on a case-by-case basis, within the contract period.
• Document and gather requirements and track/document progress accordingly.

Required skills and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience understanding various security systems, including as but not limited to: ARES (Oracle), INSPIRE, PSARS, COGNOS. 
• Demonstrated experience in AWS ProServe, IaC (Infrastructur-as-code), and AWS cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering, DevOps, Cross domain transfer, and O&M.
• Demonstrated experience with OCR, including data extraction and restructuring into other formats, particularly with IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture, version 22.0.1. 
• Demonstrated experience in the field of AGILE software.   
• Demonstrated experience supporting the development of metrics and visualization tools.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• Demonstrated experience integrating information from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience documenting and gathering requirements, and tracking their progress accordingly.
• Demonstrated experience with SharePoint and document control management.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and designing business processes.
• Demonstrated experience implementing management reporting workflows.
• Demonstrated experience exhibiting oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working independently and interacting regularly with government and non-government stakeholders.

Highly desired skills and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience having a basic understanding of the Sponsors overall community security processes and industry best practices.
• Demonstrated experience obtaining full understanding of the personnel security process with expectations of reviewing and analyzing current trends for improvement of security processing systems.

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel:

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA). 
• Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.

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This position is for immediate hire.

J5 Consulting offers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.