Digital Systems Architect
Title
Digital Systems Architect
ID
10000209
Department
Information Technology
Evans & Chambers Technology is seeking a highly motivated Digital Systems Architect to join our team!
Evans & Chambers partners with the US national defense community to create fully integrated, resilient, and innovative digital solutions that enable them to make smart decisions in real-time. We work with our customers on everything from conquering their data to improving and safeguarding IT infrastructure. Our ultimate goal? To enhance our nation's ability to identify, address, and act – no matter what challenges arise.
Location: Camp H.M. Smith – Hawaii (On-Site)
Clearance: Top Secret with SCI eligibility
Evans & Chambers Technology is seeking a dynamic and innovative Digital Systems Architect excited about working in an agile and transformational environment in support of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Operations Directorate at part of the Joint Fires Division at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii to store and secure a variety of data, and make sure that the data are available to authorized users. As an integrated digital approach, explore possibilities and develop innovative solutions in a virtual environment.
- Integration requirements across the Services, Allies, and Partner Nations within the Indo-Pacific Joint Coalition Fires enterprise to achieve maximum effects against selected targets;
- Work across multiple staff offices to collect and fuse data, develop innovative methods to standardize data ingestion and tagging, and support on-going management of associated USINDOPACOM data assets;
- Create, capture and integrate data using a digital skillset.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Work across all USINDOPACOM directorates and special staff to understand the data resident within the Command, the types of data most frequently used, and for what purpose.
- Work within Directorate with Branch and Division leadership supporting positional and principal Branch duties to achieve agile and transformational objectives.
- Provide ontology and data quality for all USINDOPACOM data.
- Advise in the evolution of an INDOPACIFIC data strategy and associated policy.
- Utilize industry standard communication and visualization tools to visualize and communicate complex quantitative information and analysis.
- Interpret and communicate insights and findings from analysis to customer and other stakeholders with required/appropriate documentation.
- Tag data assets (i.e. operational, intelligence, enterprise, business activities) to support search and discovery of existing data.
- Facilitate and develop relationships across the Geographic Combatant Command CDOs, Combatant Commands CDO as well as the Joint Staff CDO.
- Support USINDOPACOM’s responsibilities with respect to planning and data management for risk and vulnerability assessments.
- Communicate effectively verbally and in writing to provide information, articles, written reports, and presentations to include delivering executive summaries to Branch Lead, Division Chief, Directorate flag and general officers (FO/GO) and Senior Executive Service (SES) level officials.
Additionally, the Digital Systems Architect will maintain a real-time understanding of technical requirements that include:
- Apply analytics and customer segmentation techniques within technical functions.
- Maintain, move, and manipulate data between applications, using appropriate software (e.g., Apache Spark, ElasticSearch, R, Python, Kibana and others as technology evolves).
- Identify meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources.
- Compile reports, charts, and tables based on established statistical methods.
- Prepare conclusions and predictions based on data summaries.
Minimum Requirements:
- Experience with MIL-STD data formats; USMTF/OTH, CMF, TACTICAL DATA LINKS/JREAP and VMF especially working between Link networks and with a strong working datalink background and superior understanding of manipulation and transmission of information amongst datalink systems.
- 4+ years of experience as a data architect, data engineer, or software engineer with Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or related field; or Master’s + 2 years’ experience.
- 4+ years of experience with database design and implementation.
- Experience in developing with APIs.
- Experience with SQL, data analysis, and data validation.
- Experience with Python and Pyspark.
- Experience with building scalable ETL/ELT workflows for reporting and analytics.
- Experience with creating solutions within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
- Ability to develop scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats and support project team to scale, monitor, and operate data platforms.
- Strong problem-solving skills and creativity in developing and exploiting alternative sources of non-traditional information for DOD customers.
- Strong oral presentation, data visualization, and writing skills.
- Must have an active Top-Secret security clearance and be SCI eligible. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a Top-Secret Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with USINDOPACOM HQ, the AOR, and associated intelligence/operational missions.
- Experience with intelligence community systems and tools.
- Previous experience working in a 4-star Headquarters.
- Experience with AWS, Java, C++, APIs, SOAP, XML, JSON, and/or JavaScript.
- Experience with developing architecture, ETL data pipelines, and data models.
- Experience with data wrangling.
- Experience with using database software, including Databricks or Snowflake.
- Experience with writing code using Python and Javascript.
- Experience in using and developing with Microsoft 365 data-centric products, including Dataverse or Power BI.
- Experience with Agile engineering practices.
- Knowledge of Qlik.
- Knowledge of data lake design.
All employment opportunities are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status or any other basis protected by law.