Standard Procurement System Specialist

Description

Contingent Upon Award

SPAARK, Inc. is currently seeking a Standard Procurement System Specialist to support the United States Special Operations Command, Program Executive Officer Special Operations Forces Sustainment Activity (PEO SOFSA) staff. This position is located at Bluegrass Station in Lexington, KY 40516.

JOB DUTIES:

• Serve as the single administrator for the government contract writing system.
• Serve as the primary SME and POC for all SPS issues.
• Coordinate action and updates with Higher Headquarters.
• Provide business advice to the customer and perform all system administration support.
• Provide support in an alternate capacity for the Task Order Tracking System.
• Perform coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the application development and sustainment process as well as project management, requirements gathering, design, and report building.  
• Collect data from multiple automated systems for analysis and review.
• Develop and prepare management reports to be provided to HHQ for Business Management Division Chief.

• Provide reports and data reconciliation to all divisions of SOFSA upon request.
• Provide data analysis support to multiple Contracting Officers.

• Provide on demand system administration support to all personnel within Business Management Division
• Provide Standard Procurement System (SPS) Support for Contract Analyst.
• Configure and administer daily backups, verifying on a monthly basis that backups can be restored.
• Provide backup to the SPS database, perform account creation and maintenance.
• Provide Help Desk and perform trouble shooting tasks.
• Run reports from the SPS for management oversight of workload and actions complete.
• Ensure daily that files generated from SPS are pushed to EDA Daily.
• Work with the Enterprise Management Division (EMD) on issues that arise pertaining to the SPS servers, backup of servers, downtime, etc.
• Provide feedback to the BMD Chief on any issues pertaining to the SPS status. 
• Provide technical expertise on system operations, hardware, and a wide variety of PC/server applications and programs. 
• Exercise responsibility for Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN).   Establish test criteria to ensure network communications interoperability is tested for completeness and accuracy. Installs, stabilizes, and manages network system software. 
• Communicate orally and in writing. 
• Meet and deal with all Government staff and other contractors in a highly professional manner. 
• Provide computer programming support and SharePoint portal maintenance support. 
• Make recommendations, when required, on custom applications which include data capture systems for integration into a central SQL server repository. 
• Work with subject matter experts in developing applicable metrics and reports for TOTS; develop, test, and implement software application changes to create PEO-SOFSA desired metrics and reports. 
• Analyze changes of product design to determine the effect on the end product design and function and determine and prepare documentation necessary for change.   
• Implement data models, database designs, data access and table maintenance codes.
• Resolve database performance and capacity issues, and replication and other distributed data issues. 
• Design, modify, develop, write and implement software programming applications and write scripts to extract data for reporting purposes to populate dashboards used by senior leadership to make strategic decisions.
• Operates within a multifunctional environment supporting many customers  

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE:

• At least ten (10) years of experience administrating PD2
• Ability to support custom developed software solutions
• Expert level with SharePoint, MS SQL Server Suite, and scripting for report generation and data manipulation
• Experience in Software Development supporting MS Tools and Frontend Web Development 
• Extensive experience in capturing customer requirements to build/maintain internally custom developed applications supporting PEO SOFSA business processes.
• Must have a thorough working knowledge of USSOCOM/PEO SOFSA business processes to rapidly develop IT solutions in support of business process automation or decision-making resources
• Function at a level of performance similar to mid-range NH-III professional or equivalent

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

CLEARANCE LEVEL:

• Secret Security Clearance

CERTIFICATION:

• DoD 8570.01M Certification

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