Responsibilities & Qualifications RESPONSIBILITIES Applies enterprise-wide disciplines for planning, analyzing, designing, and constructing information systems, utilizing analytical and computational techniques for problem-solving. Predicts performance trends and identifies anomalies through performance analysis. Specializes in systems operations, risk management, and industry technologies to develop migration and consolidation plans. Interfaces with IT customer and operations staff, performs process and data modeling, and applies reverse engineering disciplines. Provides technical guidance in software engineering and system design, particularly in system migration and consolidation. Serves as a key interaction point between NDU and the Contractor for data management and analytics implementation. Supports comprehensive data management, automation, and analytics for NDU's business processes, student performance, organizational health, and operations. Facilitates exceptional teaching and learning by applying expertise in data management strategy, insight, and transparency. As a Principal Information Engineer, your role will be to support comprehensive data management, automation, and analytics through the following responsibilities: * Serve as a translator of NDU component requirements, facilitating communication between business owners and front-end developers. * Collaborate with component and directorate leaders to develop technical requirements for priority data-analytics use-cases, ensuring agile execution. * Establish a data governance program at NDU to instill data discipline with a regular oversight cadence, documented via Data Governance Program Charter. * Clean, ingest, and connect data to analytic use cases, implement data flow quality and consistency, and provide training and support to data owners on data governance requirements and technical know-how. * Ensure adequate engineering of the performance layer for analytics, providing data quality KPIs and working collaboratively with the CIO and COO in developing the data governance program. * Act as a key interaction point between requirement owners within components and developers, managing training for data and application users. * Facilitate data-based decision-making, support effective data and knowledge management, and integrate data and information management into day-to-day operations. * Provide development capacity to execute data analytics requests from the project manager/translator for priority use cases. * Act as an end-to-end project manager, responsible for use case planning, development, and implementation. * Provide perspectives and lead discussions on determining the best analytic insights given available data. * Prioritize use cases and conduct diagnostics to identify use case opportunities for the organization. * Lead a multi-functional data team, orchestrating and coordinating with multiple business end-user stakeholders, including Data Owners and Feature Owners. * Support analytics design decisions made by Feature Owners, providing technical advice and defining clear plans for the analytics team. * Act as a bridge between the organization's analytics team, share insights with organizational stakeholders, and collect inputs to verify and iterate analytics results. * Guide the data team to develop the right visualizations to meet end-user requirements. * Diagnose existing architecture and data maturity, identify gaps, and enhance the data architecture with the broader data team while ensuring security and maintenance. * Build data tools and products, including data schemas, for effort automation and easy data accessibility. * Work closely with Data Owners to ensure data quality and availability for analytical modeling. * Gather requirements, assess gaps, and build roadmaps and architecture to help leadership make informed decisions. * Explore suitable options, designs, and create data lake/data warehouses for specific analytical solutions. * Identify gaps and implement solutions for data security, quality, and automation of processes. * Support maintenance, bug fixing, and performance analysis along the data pipeline. * Create applications, dashboards, reports, and other data visualization outputs using NDU provided business intelligence tools. * Ensure code follows coding best practices and industry standards. * Work closely with back-end developers to properly integrate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). * Collaborate with Feature Owners to iterate and develop design changes. * Provide fully developed and implemented dashboards, including: * Staffing levels by type of role and content of work. * Aggregated view of key functional KPIs across NDU. * Tracking issuance requirements related to policies and procedures. Requirements: * Demonstrated ability for oral and written communication with the highest levels of management. * Successful working knowledge and supervision of employees of various labor categories and skills. * Demonstrated experience in a DoD IT environment. * Experience managing performance-based contract TOs. * Demonstrated experience with the ITIL framework (currently v3) REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS * Required experience: 15 years of experience * Education: BA/BS in a technical discipline * Clearance Level: Secret * Certifications Required: * IASAE III * CISSP-ISSAP * CISSP-ISSEP * CCSP RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS * PMP * Scrum Master or Product Owner Overview We are seeking a Principal Information Engineer to join our team supporting the National Defense University' Enterprise Information Technology Support Services (EITSS) program to provide broad in Fort Lesley J. McNair, Southwest Washington D.C. TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. "Technology moving at the speed of thought" embodies these principles - the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers. We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays. Visit us at www.TekSynap.com . Apply now to explore jobs with us! The safety and health of our employees is of the utmost importance. Employees are required to comply with any vaccination requirements mandated by contract, applicable law or regulation. By applying to a role at TekSynap you are providing consent to receive text messages regarding your interview and employment status. If at any time you would like to opt out of text messaging, respond "STOP". Additional Job Information WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. * Location: Fort Lesley J. McNair, Southwest Washington D.C.
* Type of environment: Office
* Noise level: Medium * Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday - Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs. * Amount of Travel: Less than 10% PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE U.S. Citizenship Certifications: * IASAE III
* CISSP-ISSAP
* CISSP-ISSEP
* CCSP * PMP
* Scrum Master or Product Owner
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