Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Business & Technical Management Career Path (AcqDemo only) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Software Engineering Center (SEC), Intelligence Electronic Warefare

Duties

Assesses the performance of existing systems against future mission requirements; determines the need for hardware/software upgrades or the initiation of new system developments. Identifies and determines the criticality of software/firmware and hardware problems associated with computer-driven instrumentation and data collection systems, devises solutions to these problems. Leads and serves as a senior technical specialist on development teams consisting of in-house and contractor personnel to correct problems, upgrade capabilities or create software to support customer requirements. Provides authoritative technical expertise on the application of computer systems engineering methodologies to the design of computer-driven systems. Applies state-of-the-art knowledge of computer systems, including memories, bus structures, and interfacing techniques, minicomputers, operating systems, programming languages, database management systems. As a senior computer systems engineer represents the division at meetings internal and external to the organization for the purpose of identifying requirements, obtaining funding, and explaining technical capabilities. Reviews Statements of Requirements, Statements of Work, and task orders to ascertain technical adequacy in the areas of software, firmware, and hardware prior to contracting actions. Review contractor proposals, design concepts, and plans for technical compliance with stated requirements. Chairs technical evaluation teams assessing contractor proposals. Writes Statements-of-Work and task orders to contractors to provide technical and programmatic direction for the accomplishment of upgrades of existing test systems or the development of new computer systems. Develops budgetary requirements; identifies manpower resources and training necessary with recommendations for use of in-house and contractor personnel.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Special Sensitive/High Risk, Sensitive Compartmented Information.
• This position requires temporary duty (TDY) travel up to 25% of the time. Sometimes on short notice to world-wide locations, using the fastest mode of transportation available.
• This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for (Foundational) Business and Technical Management certification within 36 months as of entrance on duty.
• This position is subject to a pre-employment drug screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and specialized experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. In addition to meeting either of the basic requirement, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as (1) Developing software systems using techniques such as operating system theory, architecture, and software engineering; (2) Applying state-of-the-art computer systems expertise towards operating systems and software systems, using programming languages such as Java, C, C++, and C#, and other programming languages; (3) Providing software expertise by assessing performance of existing systems to determine future requirements such as hardware/software upgrades, testing and new system capabilities; and (4) Help troubleshooting reported system anomalies to resolve configuration issues and software bugs and 5) Analyzing the interoperability and configuration integrity of software used in an organization.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

BASIC EDUCATION for Computer Engineer:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. (TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED to meet Basic Education Requirement.)

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) 2 examination or any other written test required for professional 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 2 registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)

Basic Education Requirement for a Computer Scientist (1550 series):

Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in computer science or bachelor's degree (or higher degree) with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. (TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED to meet Basic Education Requirement.)

Contacts

• Address AD-W4FHAA HQ COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONICS COMMAND DO NOT MAIL Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk