Job DescriptionStrategic ACI is seeking an Expert Software Systems Architect to join our team. Strategic ACI provides specialized systems engineering, integration, testing, and data production support to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), and Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL). The work involves leading a software team that is designing, developing, curating, and testing Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) methods for mounted US Army applications.
Responsibilities:- Coordinate with Government stakeholders to understand priorities and timelines.
- Work with Program Management Staff to develop project and sprint schedules and milestones, and direct tasking across a project team to meet project objectives.
- Organize and task 5-8 team members from government, industry, and academia with objectives, and provide organization, support, and technical advice.
- Utilizeknowledge and skills in software design and development, GIS and remote sensing applications for digital image and GIS processing, analysis, visualization.
- Integrate and disseminate software tools for use across Army and other DoD/DoW systems and architectures.
- Work with GRL, ERDC Laboratories, Army Portfolio Acquisition Executives (PAEs) and Capability Program Executives (CPEs) to understand existing positioning requirements.
- Apply software design, collaborative tools, understanding of computational architectures, hardware integration, and Agile methods to solve complex challenges related to assured positioning and navigation within GPS denied environments.
Qualifications:Required:- Active Secret Clearance.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Geography, Remote Sensing, Computer Science or related discipline.
- 20+ years of experience in a related field (GIS Production, GEOINT, Geospatial Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation,etc.).
- Experience in developing software with C++.
- Experience working with Digital Surface Models, LIDAR and Aerial Imagery to collect and compile data into structured databases.
- Experience with collaborative software tools.
- Experience supporting software tools across multiple operating systems and compute environments.
- Ability to develop and present effective technical presentations.
- Experience in Microsoft Office applications, graphic/visual diagram editing.
- Ability to develop and maintain individual milestones and schedules to meet program objectives.
- Experience with Esri ArcGIS Software.
- Familiarity working with LiDAR Point Clouds, Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and other 3D data sources.
- Experience deriving 3D terrain surfaces from varying levels of detail and accuracy.
- Familiarity with 3D terrain formats.
Desired: - Active Top Secret Clearance/SCI
- Familiarity with QGIS.
- Familiarity with industry and open-source geospatial data schemas and formats (Ex. Shapefiles, Geodatabase, GeoPackage, OSM, XML, JSON, GeoJSON, etc.).
- Production process automation and enhancement.
- Scripting for data translation and process automation (Ex. Python, R, JavaScript, SQL, etc.).
