This position serves as the Software Assurance Technical Discipline Team (TDT) Lead in the Technical Excellence Office (TEO) of the NASA Safety Center (NSC).

MAJOR DUTIES:

The Technical Excellence Office (TEO) provides the highest levels of safety and mission assurance by enabling and providing technical excellence of various Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) disciplines needed to support NASA programs. The Software Assurance Technical Discipline Team Lead has a thorough understanding of software engineering and assurance theory and operations. The Lead advances the discipline through the collaboration with software assurance and other engineering experts at NASA, other Government agencies, industry and academia to develop and enhance methods to communicate and incorporate software assurance engineering best practices and lessons learned into practices that will foster participation in the improvement of software assurance and increase the likelihood of the success of NASAs missions.

The Technical Excellence Office (TEO) provides the highest levels of safety and mission assurance by enabling and providing technical excellence of various Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) disciplines needed to support NASA programs.

The Technical Discipline Team (TDT) leads work which involves developing discipline training and curricula, developing discipline board/qualification testing criteria, brokering discipline participation on Super Problem Resolution Teams, and hosting and/or providing logistical support of discipline conferences and working group meetings.

The incumbent manages overall development efforts for a significant end product or a major subject-matter entity of extensive scope and variety, as applied to the development of software assurance discipline expertise in the agency.

The incumbent provides overall technical insight into the development and management of policies, procedures, and schedules for the development of software assurance expertise in the agency. He/she will also perform planning duties, such as concept development, implementation planning, taking into account feasibility, costs and economics.

As the TDT Lead, the incumbent will lead a team by articulating and communicating to the team the overall problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or issues under review, and deadlines and timeframes for completion.

Serves as an expert consultant on the most challenging problems in aerospace engineering; and maintains close contact with key software assurance personnel at headquarters, field centers, academia and industry representatives.

Directs, manages, and conducts special studies and analyses of marked importance that significantly impacts the software assurance field and leads to major modifications or important extensions of current practices, and resolves key problems facing the organization or agency.

Contributes new designs or techniques that are regarded as major advances or have opened the way for further developments, or have solved problems of great importance to the field, agency, or public.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

Basic Education Requirement: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science. Degrees in engineering technology are not considered to be qualifying for this position.

Applicant must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, which has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above.

For this position, specialized experience is defined as demonstrated extensive problem-solving and program/project experience gained through progressive leadership responsibilities in planning, developing and managing an effective software assurance program, including experience serving in a software assurance position for a major program or project.

Additionally, the candidate will have a mastery of a broad spectrum of software assurance related subject matter (NASA STD 8739.8, Standard for Software Assurance, or equivalent) and a familiarity of the challenges associated with developing and maintaining a workforce with an exceptionally high degree of expertise in software assurance.

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