Job Title: Configuration Manager, Journeyman

Job Description:

Configuration Management (CM), Quality Assurance (QA), requirements analysis, risk management, and software engineering support services IAW the program’s configuration management plan, AF SEAM configuration management processes, program development/sustainment contracts, and PMO practices. Activities will vary depending upon the current activities of the program/system, scope of the current development/sustainment cycle, and other corporate and program initiatives. Contractor personnel must have progressive experience in managing configuration of software, engineering documents, design drawings, engineering changes and notices, and planning/conducting design audits to enable government ownership of the program technical baseline.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Provide CM of all relevant program artifacts
• Archive acquisition documentation
• Review and analyze the weapon system development/sustainment contractor’s CM program and data deliveries for accuracy, completeness, and compliance
• Maintain CM files including configuration identification, change control, and status accounting records
• Implement CM plans
• Record Configuration Control Board (CCB) approved changes
• Participate in cross-functional change control boards to evaluate proposed changes
• Review and analyze proposed changes to ensure operational and sustainment capabilities are not adversely affected by the changes
• Review the CCB membership list for currency and completeness
• Support engineering assessments
• Prepare for, conduct, and/or support major audits such as PCA/FCA
• Record and maintain assessment and audit findings, minutes, and action items.
• Report the weapon system development/sustainment contractor’s data delivery status
• Support pre- and post-contract award data reviews
• Review and analyze of the weapon system development/sustainment contractor’s conformance to CDRL requirements.
• Process Government and weapon system development/sustainment contractor correspondence
• Support the establishment of workflows
• Track data item deliverables and responses
• Support development/sustainment of paper and automated archival systems of all covered documentation
• Work closely with program management, systems engineers, quality managers, draftsmen and design/manufacturing engineers in an integrated product team environment
• Develop and administer configuration management plans
• Maintain design traceability and integrity
• Convene and manage change boards
• Assist the Government with configuration control for Electronic Records Management (ERP) and IT systems. This shall include configuration planning, data analysis, maintenance of configuration documentation and data, and maintaining inventory/configuration status
• Manage configurations of software, engineering documents, design drawings, engineering changes and notices, and plan/conduct design audits. The Contractor must have skills and experience necessary to work closely with program management, systems engineers, quality managers, and design engineers in an integrated product team environment.

• Support the review boards via meeting attendance and capturing meeting minutes including the CCB
• Track Change Requests and Discrepancy Reports /Problem Reports
• Ensure integrity of the baseline including major releases, minor releases, patches, and software maintenance
• Provide QA checks on system baselines
• Support licensing tasks and packaging and delivering of software to users
• Maintain the CM library and software repository.
• Manage and control product baselines
• Recommend and document comprehensive configuration management plans for software, hardware, firmware, and peripherals for IT systems
• Analyze data and prepare plans and briefings in support of software-driven systems
• Perform studies and monitor effectiveness of CM plans to identify potential and existing problems and make recommendations for resolution
• Audit and review IT system configurations
• Control the configuration of IT systems
• Assist the Government in developing and administering CM plans; maintaining design traceability and integrity; convening and managing change boards; and preparing for and attending major events including, but not limited to, Technical Interchange Meetings, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, PCAs, FCAs, and CCBs

Required skills may also include but not be limited to:

• CM experience within the DoD environment
• Experience performing hardware and software configuration audits
• Experience performing the technical administrative activities necessary to manage CM tools for inventory control, version control, data duplication, and media labeling.
• Experience producing release notes and CM reports
• Understanding of the configuration change control process, the role of the CCB, and change control documentation
• Experience performing baseline administrative activities for multiple environments
• Experience developing briefings for management
• Understanding of all phases of the software development life cycle
• Ability to enter and manipulate data in a database (i.e Lifecycle Management Process, Microsoft Access, Sharepoint)

• Education
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related field and at least three years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, three of which must be in the DoD
  • OR, seven years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, five of which must be in the DoD.

Education: As described in above

Years’ Experience: 3-7

Travel: Yes

Security Clearance Required: Secret

Position Type: Full Time

Work Location: Hanscom AFB, MA

Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 Annually

Top salaries paid for qualified candidates.

Agency submissions are not being accepted at this time.

For more information on Sumaria Systems, please visit our website at www.sumaria.com.

Sumaria is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

Sumaria is a Full Lifecycle Engineering, Technical Services and Professional Solutions company in support of the Warfighter, supporting modernization, high end services and next generation capabilities in contested domains. Sumaria has been a trusted partner to U. S. Department of Defense for more than 40 years, providing Lifecycle Systems Engineering, Advisory & Analysis/SETA, C5ISR and Enterprise Information Technology solutions. With expertise to lead, insight to deliver and commitment to succeed; we staff each mission with a carefully selected team of seasoned professionals. We're Headquartered in Peabody, MA, and have regional offices across the nation.

Sumaria Systems only provides engineering services to the federal government and does not provide professional engineering or surveying services to the public within the meaning of Ohio Revised Code Section 4733.16.