Job Title:Application Architect Principal Leader
Job Number:0900ARG

Job Category:Applications
Primary Location:USA-AL: ALABAMA-HUNTSVILLE
Schedule:Full-time
Job Type:Regular
Employee Status:Regular
Travel:Yes, 25% of the time
Job Posting:2009-Nov-17
Description


CSC seeks an engineer with minimum of ten years experienceto support the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Candidate selected must have experience with the following areas of interest:
- leading projects that include managing software and hardware design, development, and integration
- implementing open architecture (OA) computing environments that allow for re-use of components across programs or domains
- integrating distributedOAs into the Global Information Grid as well as local networks
- understanding OA interfaces and associated data characterization
- challenges associated with Internet Protocol based computing technology
- characteristics of multiple data transport layers mechanisms
- Service Oriented Architectures
- DoD and OSD Open Architecture policy and guidance
- concepts and techniques for compressing development and upgrade cycles to include reducing life cycle costs
- Modular Open Systems Approach, process, building blocks, migration methodology, and risk assessment
- familiarity with DO 178 Software development process

Essential Job Functions

• Reviews and conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
  
• Creates complex application architectures and populates an application host/configuration matrices with appropriate strategies, timelines, and cost information to increase cost efficiency and effectiveness.
  
• Coordinates with application developers, managers and customer application experts to ensure that required features and modifications are included in the appropriates releases to support cross-product features and to communicate architectural designs and standards.
  
• Develops and designs complex multi-tier web applications; determines project requirements and functional specifications to ensure that client specifications are met.
  
• Defines and approves application standards and specifications; provides oversight for definition of product content to ensure that appropriate parties are kept informed of client and company requirements and policies.
  
• Designs application modules that work together to produce desired product. Ensures that completed modules provide all functionality described by application experts to ensure that performance guidelines are met.
  
• Plans technical support infrastructure through the creation of service level agreements; leads the transition from application development to support to ensure that appropriate support is available to clients in a timely and efficient manner.
  
• Provides analysis and design reviews to other members in the department to avoid duplication of efforts in solving the same application problem with different products.
  
• Works with product development teams and senior designers on complex projects to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product. Works with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company's products.
  
• Acts a liaison between third party vendors and company to procure, develop and/or integrate their applications into company products to ensure that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
  
• May provide leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.
  
• Evaluates new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the company's products.
  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  
• Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering, computer sciences or related field preferred
  
• Nine or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
  
• Experience working with software systems, applications and network markets
  
• Experience working with technical products, vendors, and families of technologies and company hardware and software products
  
• Experience working with broad business area and knowledge of competitor products and services
  
• Experience working with application design principles and product configurations
  
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software to understand product line software and hardware
  
• Experience working with mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
  
• Experience working with software development life cycle and client requirements
  

• Strong personal computer and business solutions software skills
  
• Strong skills in application administration, design and architecture
  
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills for design, coordination and testing of applications
  
• Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced personnel
  
• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, application development personnel and management
  
• Good interpersonal skills for communicating with business unit personnel, customers and vendors
  
• Ability to work in a team environment
  
• Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks
  
• Ability to work with relational databases