LEAD COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Full Job Description

You will serve as a LEAD COMPUTER SCIENTIST (Minotaur Software Lead) in the MISSION SYSTEMS GROUP and SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

The incumbent leads the PMA-290 Minotaur Family of Systems (MFOS) in realizing the Aircraft Division and the NAVAIR Strategic Plan.

The position supports the OPNAV requirement to establish Minotaur as a mid-tier acquisition program. The duty location of this position is Patuxent River, MD.

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-13) grade level or pay band (DP-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Identifying barriers to resolution of issues, establishing gates and milestones necessary to resolve the issues prior to it impacting a program level milestone, and prioritizing the importance and urgency of each issue; 2) Developing plans and processes for the relocation of a system (i.e.

Minotaur) to a developmental environment; 3) Training developers and expanding to support sustainment for multiple acquisition category platforms with consistent software configuration management; 4) Rearchitecting and/or evaluating legacy software codes and legacy designs/architectures for improved performance and sustainability; and 5) Leading personnel, administering management policies and procedures, and coordinating functions between various groups to accomplish intended goals.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/computer-science-series-1550/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will support the OPNAV requirement to establish Minotaur as a mid-tier acquisition program.
• You will develop plans/processes for the relocation of Minotaur from John Hopkins University (JHU) to a government development environment while continuing to support fleet exercises and multiple platform integrations.
• You will establish IL5/IL6/IL7 Minotaur DEVSECOPS environments to support joint development and data distribution once under government oversight.
• You will transition Minotaur into modern toolsets.
• You will train Minotaur developers as the Minotaur Software Support Activity is established and expanded to support sustainment for multiple ACAT platforms with consistent software configuration management.
• You will establish a Minotaur sustainment lab facility that will support development and test of core Minotaur software.
• You will integrate testing for Minotaur interfaces on multiple supported ACAT platforms with consistent software configuration management in addition to integration testing for Minotaur interfaces.
• You will lead and provide weapon system software design expertise to groups of IPT personnel engaged in the performance of complex tasks which support broad Navy Program requirements and objectives.