Enterprise System Engineer Expert serve to maintain a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology, develop and maintain a strong awareness of on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements; be able to apply the project management model (e.g. Spiral, Waterfall, Agile) selected for a given development effort; and provide analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware systems and applications. Work involves being able to develop end-to-end cost analysis for projects; ensure systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture; help project and program teams prepare for CIO Project Management Program control gates; and keep senior management apprised of project or program status. Assignments may include leading teams consisting of contractor personnel.
Tasks:
- Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
- Provide staff and users with assistance solving computer related problems, such as malfunctions and program problems.
- Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
- Use object-oriented programming languages, as well as client/server applications development processes and multimedia and Internet technology.
- Confer with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address.
- Coordinate and link the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility and so information can be shared.
- Consult with management to ensure agreement on system principles.
- Expand or modify system to serve new purposes or improve workflow.
- Analyze and study complex system requirements.
- Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manages their implementation.
- Manage software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
- Estimate software development costs and schedule. Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques. Supervise software configuration management.
- Apply the concept of operations set of disciplines for the planning, analysis, design and construction of information systems across a major sector of the organization.
- Develop analytical and computational techniques and methodology for problem solutions.
- Perform strategic systems planning, business information planning, business and analysis.
- Provide technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools.
- Analyze functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities.
- Develops block diagrams and logic flow charts. Translate detailed design into computer software.
- Tests, debugs, and refines the computer software to produce the required product.
- Prepare required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation.
- Enhance software to reduce operating time or improve efficiency.
- Provide technical direction to programmers to ensure program deadlines are met.
- Apply business process improvement practices to re-engineer methodologies and principles and business process modernization projects.
- Apply, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques.
- Assist in establishing standards for information systems procedures.
- Develop and apply organization-wide information models for use in designing and building integrated, shared software and database management systems.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Knowledge of the 's budget process, to include the process used to submit proposed budgets to congress.
- Knowledge of the 's project management processes, procedures and tools.
- Knowledge of the Intelligence Community.
- Considerable knowledge of Project Management concepts and principles.
- Project planning and management skills, including scope of work, time estimation, and resource assignment.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts/theories for various projects.
- Strong interpersonal skills to resolve problems in a professional manner, lead working groups, negotiate and create consensus.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Technology Design - Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
- Ability to identify technology gaps in current capabilities and processes.
- Ability to develop a project plan and workflow based on a project management model.
- Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve both technical and non-technical issues.
- Ability to effectively understand and communicate orally, in writing, and interpersonally to various customers/audiences.
- Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
- Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve technical and non-technical issues (e.g. equipment, systems, networks, computer operations, cover issues etc)..
Technology used in this occupation:
- Data base user interface and query software - Database software; Microsoft Access
- MS Office Suite
- Markup language - HTML
- Metric Tool
