EM Spectrum Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities

• Use EL-CID Desktop to determine current functionality.
• Work with Systems Review Branch Chief, engineers, and other stakeholders to determine functionality to be ported from EL-CID Desktop to EL-CID Online.
• Write the requirement or defect as a JIRA story/bug.
• Prepare for and host pre-IPT meetings with the System Review Branch to decompose the high-level epics/user stories into detailed user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Own the product backlog and attend Integrated Project Team (IPT) meetings to describe functionality in the JIRA story and assist government stakeholders to prioritize the work.
• Help developers understand the functionality to be implemented.
• Help to test the functionality after developers implement the changes.
• Be the Subject Matter Expert for Spectrum systems and frequency assignments.
• Propose business solutions for meeting requirements.
• Provide Operational support expertise.
• Assist with debugging issues in production and assist agencies with their Spectrum questions and files, including building spectrum systems and correcting compliance errors.
• Good written and verbal communication skills coupled with strong listening skills.
• Ability to write documentation where audience is a spectrum engineer.
• Ability to prepare mock-ups, flow diagrams, or models, and procedures along with conducting feasibility studies to design possible system solutions.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to create training material (input certification requests), specification sheets, training scripts, PowerPoint presentations, and conduct in-person and virtual training for agencies.
• Generate agenda and host bi-weekly meetings with DoW’s Portfolio Acquisitions Executive Services (PAE) to discuss Import/Export and SSRF changes for interoperability.
• Produce Meeting Minutes.
• Provide input to trainer to update User Manual after every sprint as needed, review the updates to ensure accuracy.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 10+ years of work experience in Spectrum
• Security clearance level: Secret clearance required to start
• Knowledge of radio transmitters and receivers, radar, antennas and satellites (radio spectrum)
• Recognized subject matter expert in job area typically through advanced education and work experience
• 10+ years experience with EM spectrum frequencies and how the federal government assigns them
• 10+ years experience working with system parameters for satellites, radars, antennas, receivers and transmitters
• 5+ years knowledge of EL-CID Desktop application
• 5+ years knowledge of DoW StepStone system a huge plus
• Knowledge of spectrum-related data exchange format named Standard Spectrum Resource Format (SSRF)
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence a plus
• Knowledge of XML, XSD, XSLT a huge plus
• 8+ years experience writing technical documentation