Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems Architect with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Reston, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor requires support specializing in project and system integration to perform dataset collection and exploitation for the Sponsor’s operational needs. This includes assessments and consultations with partners in and outside the Sponsor’s organization for data acquisition and exploitation strategy. Priorities will be determined by the Sponsor in close consultation with the Contractor Team.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor Team shall work with users to identify and develop system requirements taking into account the desired results, hardware limitations and operating requirements, identified by the Sponsor.
• The Contractor Team shall provide operational testing and recommendations for continuous improvement of equipment and software for collection and exploitation.
• The Contractor Team shall provide coordination across Sponsor’s organization and business partners to expedite data sharing, processing and governance activities.
• The Contractor shall analyze new technologies, hardware, and software to determine the applicability and need for the existing or proposed system, to include security, storage, and network technology.
• The Contractor shall interface directly with Sponsor management for requirements for data collection and exploitation.
• The Contractor shall programmatically manage solutions for virtual operations.
• The Contactor shall collect and manage requirements for planning and produce outcomes from virtual operational requirements.
• The Contractor shall provide data assessments and prepare analytical reports from datasets.
• The Contractor shall collect and exploit profile, content, or metadata information.
• The Contractor shall evaluate data accessible in the public domain, including foreign social media websites and applications from mobile and stationary platforms.
• The Contactor shall assist in planning and managing multiple projects involving the infrastructure and exploitation platforms.
• The Contractor shall assist in the integration of data with existing platforms for correlation and analytical insights.
• The Contractor shall establish strategic objectives based on the Sponsor’s vision for the data collection platforms.
• The Contractor shall conduct technical exchange meetings with stakeholders on business and technical requirements.
• The Contractor shall assist to condition, coordinate, collect, and perform data transfer of data sets for integration and analysis.
• The Contractor shall collect, ingest, and exploit large and small dataset collections.
• The Contractor shall provide field technical and operational support for data analysis, and may require some Temporary Duty travel.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with collection and exploitation of data on mobile apps including domestic and foreign.
• Demonstrated experience performing data analysis such as gathering information to determine data sources, data targets, data definitions, and data relationships.
• Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats.
• Demonstrated experience producing technical documentation for operational use.
• Demonstrated experience triaging and troubleshooting data issues.
• Demonstrated experience developing requirements for testing, assessing applications, and systems for data management.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with image analysis, manipulation, and processing in Photoshop or similar tools.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience working both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience transferring and handling sensitive data.
• Demonstrated experience preparing task plans, task documentation, and overall activity reporting documents.
• Demonstrated experience developing data ingestion tools that extract, transform and load the data based upon data mappings.
• Demonstrated experience building databases and developing software applications to manage the extraction, transformation and loading of data.
• Demonstrated experience performing data modeling, data testing and data documentation.
• Demonstrated experience with data management such as versioning of data and backups.
• Demonstrated experience working with users to define requirements for analysts or operational customers.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s technical collection.
• Proficient in all of Sponsor’s classified datasets and data collection and repository tools.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.