Job Description

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking an Operations and Engineering Lead to join our Facilities and Infrastructure Systems and Analytics team! In this role, you will Interface with business leads, IT developers, project managers, software system consultants and representatives to determine important requirements in the engineering design process for IT business solutions to enable data analytics.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Perform gap analysis between needed and existing capabilities.
• Partner with management and stakeholders to convert business objectives into capabilities roadmap.
• Research, develop, and prioritize requirements, collaborate with project managers, meet with business leads, and create documents to enable project outcomes.
• Partner with management and stakeholders to convert business objectives into capabilities roadmap.
• Develop a maturity model for assessing existing capabilities.
• Prioritize requirements based on stakeholder needs and best business practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop, document, and maintain the requirements integral to business systems as well as managing any changes to the requirements as necessary.
• Identify needs and enhancements to existing systems to increase operating efficiency or adapt newer requirements.
• Provide recommendation and implementation of data reliability, efficiency, and quality improvements.
• Design prototypes, wireframes, notional examples and/or pilots to incubate or refine business ideas to include data analytics, workflow diagrams, etc.
• Mine and analyze multiple data sets (Dimensional) for trends, insights, problems, etc.
• Document models, solutions, data mapping, technical specifications, data dictionaries, test cases, etc.
• Exercise personal initiative in successfully completing assigned tasks.
• Lead and team with multi-discipline system engineers, technicians, and designers.
• Perform work in adherence to quality assurance requirements.

The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

Salary Range:

$81,900 - $157,500

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline, plus 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with SQL, PowerBI, or Tableau.
• Experience translating IT and business needs.
• Experience writing user stories and development of user acceptance testing.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience writing user stories and user acceptance testing.
• Results oriented individual who has excellent attention to detail and drives for excellence.
• A current DOE Q or L-level security clearance, or DoD equivalent.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communications.
• Demonstrated customer service skills.
• Adherence and contribution to work plan timelines, managing workflows to meet project timeframes.
• Broad understanding from a systems perspective (Systems Engineering).
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.

About Our Team:

The Facilities and Infrastructure Systems and Analytics department is responsible for data engineering, analytics, technology strategy, and IT portfolio management. We drive operational excellence by applying modern systems engineering and analytical methods to our technology systems and applications. We steward the Facilities IT portfolio by providing centralized management of technology investments, projects, systems, and activities in service of strategic objectives. Our data analytics team applies the science of analyzing raw data to guide and inform operational health, performance, and strategic decision-making. We establish the processes and systems required to assess value, cost, risk, and performance of IT investments. We partner with a diverse set of stakeholders and subject matter experts to select and invest in high-value projects that are synchronized with corporate goals and business strategy.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 694555

Job Family: FA

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.