Senior IT Infrastructure Analyst - Program Office Shipbuilding

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

SPA’s Sea Land Air (SLA) Division supports a diverse portfolio of national security government clients, including the Undersea Enterprise, the Navy Surface Community, the Navy MPTE Enterprise, the Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, OSD, international clients including the Canadian Navy and Australian Defense Force.  Our primary objective is to provide timely, objective and analytic assessments that integrate the policy, operational, technical, programmatic and acquisition aspects of our clients’ challenges.

Leveraging both in-domain and cross-domain expertise to maximize our clients’ success, SLA Division acts as trusted agents to senior decision-makers and key leaders and excels at providing data driven analytic insights, systems engineering, strategies and plans that address current and emerging challenges to national security.

The Undersea Platform Analysis Group (UPAG), within the Sea, Land, Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to NAVSEA Team Submarine program offices and key stakeholders surrounding submarine platform construction.  Team Submarine unifies submarine platform procurement activities, which includes the Columbia-class SSBN program (a Major Defense Acquisition Program and the Navy’s top acquisition priority), the Virginia-class SSN program and the new SSN-X program (developing the next generation attack submarine), to bring improved capabilities to our undersea forces.  Analysts and Engineers supporting Team Submarine will continue SPA’s decades of support to the SSBN force, as well as supporting oversight of cutting-edge attack submarine construction, assisting in developing the design requirements for the SSN platform of the future, and helping plan and execute new and innovative strategies to strengthen the critical submarine shipbuilding industrial base. These are high-profile, major acquisition and manufacturing programs of significant importance to the future capabilities of the US Navy in an era of renewed strategic competition.

SPA has an immediate need for a motivated Senior Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Analyst to provide oversight for the COLUMBIA Class program office in Washington, DC. This program office is responsible for identifying, assembling, managing, directing, and coordinating the resources required for the R&D, design, construction, Test and Evaluation and Live Fire Test and Evaluation of the COLUMBIA Class submarine. The program is a major defense acquisition program and is of significant political importance with Congress and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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The candidate will directly support Project Blue under the COLUMBIA Class submarine program office. Project Blue is responsible for delivering the IT solutions in support of SSBN logistics, deploying IT products to both TRIDENT Refit Facilities (TRF), Electric Boat (EB), and the United Kingdom (UK) DREADNOUGHT program. General duties include:

• Lead the Platform/IT solutions group to address OCAB/Shipboard/TRF communication and bandwidth/reliability challenges.
• Validate that IT solution upgrades will be sufficient for the TRFs by funding and executing TRF IT infrastructure upgrade pilots.
• Leverage enterprise synergies for IT infrastructure where possible, including potential collaborations with external organizations such as the USAF for 5G technology.
• Evaluate the performance of various systems including OCAB, SEA03 cloud, and NNPPnet.
• Address IT gaps and run infrastructure pilots for technologies such as 5G and P-LEO.
• Validate technology requirements and needs given the complexity surrounding organizational ownership on these problems.
• Determine bandwidth and connectivity requirements to ensure optimal performance and reliability of IT systems.
• Enable connectivity to empower a future SSBN maintenance workforce to be entirely paperless, to include wireless coverage across TRF admin and shop spaces and in-hull on pierside SSBNs.
• Leverage support from PEO SSBN to define and execute pilots to demonstrate business cases in support of increased use of mobile computing to improve TRF workforce efficiency.

At SPA, we strive to deliver a robust total compensation package that will attract and retain top talent.  Elements of the compensation package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.  

SPA provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.  

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, etc.

Please note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline only.  Salaries are commensurate with experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.  Washington, D.C. Pay Transparency Range:  $100-$130k; possibly higher for ideal candidate.

25% travel is required.

Required Qualifications:

• A Final Secret Clearance is required to be considered for this position.
• A bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline is required. Plus 5-7 years of experience.
• Experience with SSBN operations and strategic weapons systems employment.
• Strong understanding of OCAB/Shipboard/TRF communication systems.
• Experience with pilot projects, business case analyses, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Ability to evaluate system performance and address IT gaps.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Proficiency in JIRA Agile PM Management Tool and Confluence Online Document Repository.
• Experience in leading technical proposals and managing prototype efforts.
• Experience with RF Planning and Optimization.
• 25% travel is required.

Additional Desired, but not required, Qualifications:

• A master’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline.
• Experience with Defense Acquisition University acquisition principles.
• Experience with Program Management Institute (PMI) Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Knowledge of the Agile Methodology project management framework.
• Experience with Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services, MS Azure).
• Experience with Wi-Fi and Enterprise Networks.
• Experience in creating DoDAF architecture products.
• Experience in preparing and submitting proposals for funding the experimentation of 5G technologies.
• Experience in creating detailed decision support materials for senior leadership.
• Experience in providing feedback to programmatic documentation in support of evolving government standards.
• Experience in analyzing information security controls and control enhancements.
• Experience in leading the establishment of critical cloud computing infrastructure.
• Experience in developing test procedures and requirements documents in accordance with DoD Systems Engineering policy.
• Experience in performing technical analysis of contractual documents.