I. M. Systems Group Inc. (IMSG)

Architect

• Defines and communicates the architectural vision and strategy across the organization.
• Leads the design and implementation of complex technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and recommends solutions to enhance organizational capabilities.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure architectural consistency and alignment with strategic goals.
• Mentors and guides architects and technical teams to promote best practices and architectural excellence.
• Oversees the creation and maintenance of architectural documentation, standards, and guidelines.
• Identifies and mitigates technical risks, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations and NOAA Information System Requirements.
• Leads architectural reviews and provides guidance on critical technical decisions.
• Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system.
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves program support deficiencies.
• Develops and recommends corrective actions.
• May provide technical guidance for database administrators and software developers.
• Working with the PM, Chief Scientist, and Chief Software Engineer, identify and collaborates with key stakeholders in the NWP and the ESM communities to identify future strategic directions to advance NWP in an ESM framework; working with the product manager, ensures that capabilities developed by the contract are advancing the highest priority science-based outcomes of stakeholders.

Chief System Architect

Project Manager

• Full accountability and authority for leading and managing assigned program(s).
• Provides the primary interface with the NOAA Program Lead, Contracting Officer, Contracting Specialist, and Contracting Officer’s Representatives.
• Acts as primary contact and responsible for meeting contractual commitments including the financial, quality, technology, and schedule performance of assigned program(s) within contractual boundaries, company expectations, and established standards, using the approved business model and management tools.
• Establishes an executable baseline and manages the program risk and opportunity.
• Sets milestones and monitors adherence to program master plans and schedules.
• Uses approved control systems and reports that accurately measure progress, identifies potential problems in sufficient time for corrective action to be taken and ensures the meeting of contract commitments.
• Supervises and integrates the performance of the program Integrated Product Teams, including working with the Chief Scientist, Chief Architect and Chief Software Engineer, in providing leadership, vision, and guidance to the EPIC contractor staff.
• Sets program strategy, vision and tactical direction for program execution by multifunctional team(s) and sub-contractors.
• Tracks progress on EPIC milestones, reporting on progress to the Government, and bringing issues and proposed solutions to the attention of the Government throughout the life of the contract.

Full-stack Engineer

• Participates in software engineering efforts that will lead to UFS code improvement services in collaboration with in an integrated cross-disciplinary environment to ensure that the UFS code is easily maintainable, extensible and performance optimized.
• Ensures comprehensive code and science-based documentation.
• Provides services and support for the development and integration of scientific software components, development and use of tools for user support requests.
• Develops and maintains user-facing documentation such as user’s guides, release notes, known issues, tutorials and developer’s guides.
• Delivers scientific software and HPC oriented training and tutorials both online and in person; Designs, provides and supports scientific code hackathons, sprints and workshops, and develops and maintains infrastructure to help enable culture change toward community development, R2O/O2R and other approaches such as web presence, innovation hubs and other social media.
• Employs modularity, the design principle known as separation of concerns (SoC).
• Develops and executes clear project deliverables and success metrics.
• Develops continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for EPIC software development.
• Leads and coordinate software engineering efforts that will lead to UFS code improvement services in collaboration within an integrated cross-disciplinary environment to ensure that the UFS code is easily maintainable, extensible and performance optimized.
• Working with the PM, Chief Scientist, and Chief System Architect, identifying and collaborating with key stakeholders in the NWP and the ESM communities to identify future strategic directions to advance NWP in an ESM framework; working with the product manager, ensures that capabilities developed by the contract are advancing the highest priority science-based outcomes of stakeholders.