WSMR CDO General Engineer/Computer Engineer/Electronics Engineer/Physical Scientist/Operations Research Analyst/Computer Scientist/Data Scientist

Full TimeNM-WHITE SANDSWSMR

Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

Serves as the interface to the ATEC HQ Chief Data Officer to help provide expertise and knowledge of test capabilities and test data across ATEC and provide oversight on implementing enterprise initiatives within ATEC. Incumbent determines scope of projects, develops a plan of action and defines specific objectives. Incumbent is independently responsible for analyzing assignments, determining sound approaches to the problems, and carrying work through to completion. Resolves difficult technical problems with assistance from knowledgeable personnel with whom the incumbent interacts. Completed work may involve technical reports that are reviewed for technical accuracy and achievement of objectives. Recommendations and conclusions of the incumbent are generally accepted as technically sound.

Job Responsibilities

Serves as the Chief Data Officer and Senior Project Engineer for data management in assigned organization, pioneering technical development of leading-edge testing for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). In this capacity, has responsibility for design, development, and fielding of a broad-based knowledge system that incorporates for the first time a holistic concept of data acquisition, data reduction, data-basing, and data mining for the purpose of supporting the acquisition system, the logistics operations, and warfighter. To achieve this goal, the incumbent mentors, and coordinates, the efforts of professional and technical personnel engaged in a major Department of Defense-wide initiative to provide "cradle-to-grave" data and information on Army inventory fielded to support the test & evaluation (T&E) mission. The position encompasses several broad and diverse disciplines. Responsible for the development of the overarching organizational concept plan IAW with the ATEC HQ CDO concept plan for enterprise data management and knowledge management. The plan reflects the needs and concerns of the tri-services; and encompasses meetings at the highest levels of Government to insure acceptance and support for out-year efforts. Planning functions include continual assessments on funding streams and sources of money with the emphasis on minimizing the use of Command institutional or technology dollars. Planning documentation includes implementation strategies, timelines, costs, deliverables, etc. Responsible for providing the technical direction for meeting the exceptionally difficult and challenging issues posed with implementation of the initiative across the organization. Technical challenges also encompass a broad and diverse software effort to be directed and coordinated by the incumbent. Software efforts include, embedded data reduction, on-site data acquisition and processing, data basing of acquired data, secure access to dispersed databases, archiving, data mining, etc. As the project manager for the major instrumentation and information management initiatives, responsible for ensuring that the systems operate as advertised once established; personnel will be available to operate, maintain, upgrade, modify and change the system specific to T&E requirements. Utilizes contracts as necessary to complete work. Oversees preparation of design specifications end contract documents, coordination of solicitations with Contracting, and responds to technical questions from prospective bidders. Oversees contractor performance and redirects contractor efforts as necessary.

Reviews and/or provides comments to associated technical design documentation, studies, software development, trade-off analyses, technology insertion approaches and demonstrations. Reviews policies and program status and makes recommendations on technical decisions.

Maintains technical contacts and liaison in the area of assigned work. Develops outside sources of information with governments, private industry, and educational institutions research and development personnel; screens reports, publications, and other data emanating from such organizations; and keeps currently informed of the latest developments and state-of-the-art. Prepares and presents detailed technical and cost analysis briefings to organizational senior leaders, ATEC HQ, Department of the Army (DA), Department of Defense (DoD), and congressional members on major automotive initiatives. Attends meetings and presents technical papers at conferences, and symposiums with representatives of other services, other government agencies, private industry, and representatives of foreign military establishment. Serves on national and international standardization committees. Incumbent is recognized as an expert in his field, providing technical consultations throughout the organization.

Job Qualification

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not allinclusive.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED. You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

Expert knowledge and experience working with large and complex data sets and performing extensive analysis of volumes of data through macros and pivot tables.

Broad knowledge of DoD, DA, acquisition, and ATEC Testing and Evaluation (T&E) policies and regulations. Knowledge of test management to include ATEC test capabilities and other available test facilities, data collection instrumentation, data reduction, storage and delivery, test design methodologies.

Expert knowledge of program and project management (cost/schedule/performance) to include contracting officer technical representative responsibilities; Planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution (PPBE) principles; and risk management practices.

Skill in applying information systems security principles and concepts in order to ensure all data analytics efforts are conducted in accordance with information security best practices

Skill, judgment, resourcefulness, originality, and ability to foresee the impact of changing technology and in applying analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, investigate, and resolve complex issues or problems; Ability to develop evaluation strategies to include application of design of experiments and modeling and simulation techniques.

Skill as an analytical and creative thinker, innovative problem solver, self-motivated and proactive and highly organized.

Ability to develop and execute projects and/or studies within established financial and time constraints.

Ability to prepare technical documents and briefings for customer base across and outside of the Command.

Ability to organize and lead multi-agency and/or multi-service teams through collaboration. Skill with interpersonal relations.

Skill in both oral and written communication to present briefings to senior Army leadership on complex and controversial issues; and/or develop or aid in the production of documents, roadmaps and strategies for data environment and architecture.

Conditions of Employment

This is a Defense Acquisition Workforce (AWF) position. The employee must meet the DoDI 5000.66 requirements applicable to the Career Category/Functional Area and the Career Level Certification assigned on the sequenced position Conditions of Employment data fields in the header of the PD/PRD.
Foundational Career Level I Certification or Contracting Professional Certification must be met within 1 year.
Practitioner Career Level II Certification must be met within 4 years.

Annual Financial Disclosure required, OGE-450.

This position requires temporary duty (TDY) travel up to 25% of the time.

Travel Requirements

Majority of Travel will be up to 20%/Some positions travel up to 40% (Dependent on Position/Location/Organization)

QUESTIONS or issues please send us a message with the vacancy announcement URL, position title, and location to:

louis.salas.civ@army.mil