Position Title IT Accessibility/Section 508 Systems Engineer IV - SME

Clearance TS/SCI w/ CI Poly

Position Description

This position supports the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) CIO-T Accessibility Office mission in support of Section 508/IT Accessibility, advocating and overseeing implementation of Electronic and Information Technology to ensure it is consistent with policy and accessible to people with disabilities.

This position advises, assists, leads, manages, works and/or supports Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support research, technical analysis, testing, implementation, and cyber security analysis for the Enterprise IT Architecture.

The contractor shall support the implementation of a centralized captioning and transcription service to include research, development, procurement, and implementation of a system or systems which rely on machine learning and human machine teaming.

Currently we are seeking a motivated, career, and customer-oriented Section 508/IT Accessibility Systems Engineer SME to join our team in Springfield, Virginia.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Perform technical evaluation of enterprise IT Architecture (ITA) to assess gaps in accessibility and impacts to system security.
• Perform requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration for captioning technologies.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software/hardware development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design, and test tools selection that compliment system security.
• Track the progress of accessibility for applications.
• Assist with developing educational training on ITA requirements for the workforce for applicability and design considerations for software development, system engineering, acquisition, and general workforce for adaption.
• Assess and audit Enterprise for Accessibility and develop strategic plans, policies, and processes to support Accessibility.
• Perform requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration for captioning technologies.
• Assist in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
• Perform analyses and support prioritization and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
• Plan and execute systems integration activities.
• Conduct Trade Studies and Engineering Assessments of captioning and transcription emerging capabilities.
• Integrate multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within all captioning and transcription application acquisitions and across all relevant organizational and agency boundaries.
• Provide documentation and technical writing support.
• Perform research on methodology of how computer programs, applications, electronic devices etc., analyze, produce, modify, or respond to human texts and speech.
• Call Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to modify and integrate caption and transcription engines.
• Design Accessible Code that accesses various services relevant to Captioning and Transcription on a LINUX system.
• Read, comprehend, and translate documentation pertaining to the technical application of an automated Caption and Transcription Service and any impacts to system and cyber security.
• Draft technical papers and documentation on automated captioning and transcription.
• Perform and support system testing using applications such as WOWZA.
• Read, comprehend, and execute documentation concerning the configuration of closed captioning for live streaming.
• Develop and implement algorithms, scripts, and predictive analytics to support Captioning and Transcription efforts.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or Business field, or equivalent experience with a related field and a minimum of 12 years of experience in a distinct functional or cross-functional area.
• Seven years of systems engineering experience.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Master’s degree in STEM or related discipline.
• Relevant industry standard certifications such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP), Certified Systems Modeling Professional-Advanced (OCSMP-A).
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methodologies.
• Section 508/IT Accessibility experience.

Additional Position Requirements BA/BS and 12 years

Position Location *Springfield, VA

Posted On: Thursday, January 30, 2025