Senior Configuration Manager

Job Title:
Senior Configuration Manager

Location:
Kettering, OH (Dayton, WPAFB)

Position Overview: Crossflow Technologies, Inc.has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Configuration Manager located in Kettering, OH (Dayton, WPAFB) to support our EPASS GB contract. This position will support four programs within the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES), Financial Systems Division (GBG) located in Kettering, OH. The Commander's Resource Integration System (CRIS) is a read-only, multi-tier, relational data warehouse providing visibility into financial transactions across all echelons of the AF.

The CRIS warehouse offers data from multiple legacy systems:
Budget, Accounting, Supply, Fuels, Flying Hours, Civilian Pay and Personnel. CRIS reduces the user's data collection efforts, allowing more time to be spent on decision support. Approximately 6,650 users access data in the CRIS warehouse through the business intelligence tool or web application. CRIS executes over 30M queries a year with an average query response time of 10 seconds. The mission of CRIS is to deliver reliable, accurate and timely AF data and information for decision support.

CRIS has been designated the Authoritative Data Source (ADS) for the AF for all appropriated funds. The Command Management System (CMS) is AF Materiel Command's (AFMC) Authoritative Data Source in support of AFMC's Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process. CMS is web-based and is used by both AFMC to build and refine the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submission and PEMs at HAF to review AFMC's POM.

The Keystone Decision Support Systems (KDSS) program provides a working capital funds financial data warehouse that enables the AF to forecast, analyze and manage the $20B AF Working Capital Fund (AFWCF). The Automated Project Order (APO) also referred to as J025A, system is responsible for electronically processing AF Materiel Command (AFMC) Project Orders for the Air Logistics Complexes (ALCs).

As a Senior Configuration Manager your duties will include the following, but are not limited to:

• Provide and maintain CM of all relevant system artifacts, e.g., documentation, source code, build files, scripts, etc., to allow the government the capability to build and release a working copy of the system to the appropriate production environment;

• Provide support ranging across the Configuration Management (CM), Quality Assurance (QA), Program Planning (PP), Risk Management (RM), and System Engineering (SE) activities which will vary depending upon the current activities of the program/system, scope of the current development/sustainment cycle, and other corporate and program initiatives.

• Provide resources with progressive experience in technical writing, critical thinking and analysis, 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.

• Review and evaluate the 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;

• Participate in cross-functional change control boards meetings such as, but not limited to, Configuration Control Board (CCB), Change Control Board (CCB), Functional Review Board (FRB), Requirements Review Board (RRB), etc., to record and manage proposed and approved changes;

• Review the change control boards' membership list for currency and completeness;

• Support Engineering Assessments;

• Prepare for, conduct, and/or support major audits such as Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs) and Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs);

• Record and maintain assessment and audit findings, minutes, and action items;

• Report the Development/Sustainment Contractor's required software delivery status;

• Support pre- and post-contract award data reviews via meeting attendance and capturing meeting minutes;

• Review and evaluate the Development/Sustainment Contractor's conformance to CDRL requirements;

• Manage Government and Development/Sustainment Contractor correspondence

• Support the establishment of work flows;

• Ensure configuration items are properly identified and documentation is accomplished;

• Track configuration 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 control boards;

• Assist the Government with configuration control for ERP and IT systems. This shall include configuration planning, maintenance of configuration documentation and data, and maintaining…