Join our team at Strategic Sight Consulting LLC for an opportunity as a Senior Database Manager supporting OPTEVFOR and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron ONE (VX-1). This role leads the development, configuration, administration, and management of complex test databases used to collect, preserve, analyze, and report data supporting developmental and operational T&E and tactics evaluation of Naval aircraft, weapons, and systems.
Responsibilities and Background
- Develop and manage a test database environment consisting of backend data services and frontend data-collection capabilities compatible with existing VX-1 systems.
- Configure databases to support program-specific test information requirements and maintain compatibility as data structures, interfaces, and requirements evolve.
- Evaluate proposed database enhancements and recommend courses of action based on impacts to current and planned test-support operations.
- Extract and integrate test-related data from external sources, including NALCOMIS and onboard aircraft mission-planning or recording sources, for use in database-generated reports.
- Configure and operate database systems at VX-1 and provide on-site administrative support during test and tactics operations.
- Analyze database anomalies, support continuous availability, collect user feedback, and implement approved process or system improvements.
- Provide database training and orientation to VX-1 personnel and support program-specific user capabilities.
- Compile and extract data for technical products, aircrew briefs, and program-specific evaluation reports; identify data voids and apparent anomalies.
- Support test-data reduction, reliability and maintainability data collection, system-performance calculations, and qualitative-data analysis.
- Maintain data integrity, configuration control, traceability, and secure handling of test information throughout the collection and reporting lifecycle.
Requirements
- United States citizenship.
- Minimum Top Secret security clearance. Specific task orders may require Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility; personnel must be eligible for the clearance required to begin performance at task award.
- Four or more years, within the last 8 years, of specialized professional experience developing and managing complex databases.
- Direct experience in developmental or operational T&E and/or tactics evaluation of aircraft, weapons, or systems.
- Demonstrated familiarity with Microsoft Office software.
- Ability to support database configuration management, system administration, data extraction, validation, analysis, and report-generation requirements in a test environment.
- Ability to meet additional task-order-specific qualifications, including evolving data collection, analysis methodologies, and tools applicable to the assigned SUT.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting Naval aviation test-data environments, including NALCOMIS data interfaces or comparable aircraft-maintenance data sources.
- Experience supporting on-site test operations where database availability, rapid anomaly resolution, and controlled data extracts are mission critical.
- Familiarity with VX-1, OPTEVFOR, or comparable DoD operational test and evaluation environments.
- This position is contingent upon contract award