NIH NIAID IT Subject Matter Expert

ECS is seeking an NIH NIAID IT Subject Matter Expert to work in our Washington, DC office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Job Description:

ECS Federal is currently seeking to fill a full-time Enterprise Solutions Subject Matter Expert (SME) position. This role is expected to be on-site.

The SME will deliver client-facing IT consulting services in support of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). More specifically, in support of the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) within the NIAID Director's Office of Scientific Management and Operations and their mission to manage technologies supporting NIAID biomedical research programs. The office provides a spectrum of management, technologies development, applications/software engineering, bioinformatics support, and professional development.

As a member of the ECS team, you will enable OCICB's ability to coordinate closely with NIAID intramural, extramural, and administrative staff in the provision of technical support, liaison, coordination, and consultation on a wide variety of ventures. These projects and initiatives are aimed at ensuring ever-increasing interchange and dissemination of scientific information within the federal government and among the worldwide scientific network of biomedical researchers.

In this role, you will provide SME support for large and complex enterprise projects to include analyzing user needs to determine functional requirements and define problems and develop plans and requirements in the subject matter area for moderately complex to complex systems related to information systems architecture, networking; telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation. Tasks may include:

• Act as the primary technical resource for the customer.
• Provide comprehensive up-front design and ongoing design guidance and reviews to reduce risk to customer and their stakeholders.
• Establish accountability and transparency through adherence to a clearly defined software and system development process.
• Increases the "velocity" of customer's software and system development activities while raising the standards of quality and system reusability.
• Responsible for the design of one or more applications or services within the customer's organization.
• Recommend new and emerging techniques, tools, and best practices to support a highly efficient software development team.
• Participate in the development of a software development process and supports adoption by technical staff.
• Ensure the creation of all design and development artifacts adhere to customer's software development processes.
• Provide consultation and support for project teams to assist in the delivery of efficient and extensible component designs and source code.
• Participate in design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures that security is embedded in the design and development processes before coding efforts begin.
• Ensure architecture designs include functional components as well as user interface artifacts.
• Provides both high level and detailed guidance to inform architectural and implementation decisions.
• Provide technical assistance with the project.
• Share expertise and make recommendations to customer while providing technical guidance and direction to customer project teams.
• Coordinate "reach back" with technical subject matter experts (SME) within ECS to obtain specific knowledge or expertise to address customer technical issues.
• Develop realistic staffing plans along with supporting basis of estimates (BOE).
• Understand impact of internal decisions on customer and vendor relationships, and plan accordingly.
• Build and maintain relationships with key vendor partners to incorporate technology and capability customer growth.

As a team member, you will be expected to:

• Identify and address OCICB client needs.
• Build solid relationships with clients.
• Communicate with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner.
• Demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks.
• Contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members.
• Provide general consultant support to include project management tasks, meeting facilitation, and ad hoc duties as needed.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline Engineering, Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, or Business with a Technical Background.
• 10 years of relevant experience supporting NIAID IT programs and projects.
• Must have background in system development, architecture and efficient system engineering practices.
• Strong knowledge of information technology, including all layers of the IT stack.
• Experience implementing any of the following capabilities:
  • Agile & Lean principles & methodologies for application development.
  • ITSM Automation & Orchestration.
  • Data analytics, data warehousing, & other data management architectures.
  • Machine Learning & AI.
  • Hybrid clouds and/or large-scale cloud migrations (application, data, infrastructure).
  • Next-gen cyber defense capabilities (e.g. proactive threat detection & automated response).
• Experience architecting and/or leading application modernization initiatives.
• Understanding of federal enterprise architecture concepts.
• Federal IT capital planning knowledge and experience.
• Ability to work independently or part of a cross functional team.
• Ability to lead projects and provide technical oversight to ensure alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
• Maintain technical proficiency by keeping current with the latest technologies, trends, standards, and products.
• Strong knowledge of commercial products/solutions, especially COTS software application products.
• Experience developing lifecycle cost estimates for technical solutions.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation and writing skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to interact with senior level executives.
• Ability to successfully work on multiple projects concurrently (e.g. prioritize work as needed, work with multiple teams and stakeholder groups, etc.).
• Ability to travel to NIAID offices as requested by the client.

Desired Skills:

• Possess requisite knowledge and expertise so recognized in the professional community that the government is able to qualify the individual as an expert in the field.
• Experience with HHS Enterprise Performance Lifecycle (EPLC) and supporting large IT programs at NIAID preferred.
• PMP certification.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800 employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.

About the Company:
ECS Federal, LLC

ECS was founded in 2001 by experienced IT professionals with a commitment to quality processes, people and performance. Led by our Chairman, Roy Kapani, and an experienced executive leadership team, ECS provides our customers with solutions and services that support their critical needs and further mission objectives. This commitment has paved the way for expansive growth, year over year.

ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900 employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.

In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.

ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.

Company Size:
50 to 99 employees

Industry:
Computer/IT Services

Founded:
2000

Website:
http://www.ecs-federal.com/