This role will be supporting the FAA in their strategic planning, baseline management, and budget formulation goals by continuing the development of the SPIRE Portal web application. SPIRE Portal is the trusted source of strategic planning and performance information for the agency. It is used to formulate and report on all agency programs, including research and development, capital improvement, sustainment, and other efforts. SPIRE Portal replaces a set of legacy systems which will eventually be phased out, providing a more modernized and centralized tool that addresses usability concerns, improves compliance with agency requirements, and provides features that more closely support evolving user needs.

SPIRE Portal is an ASP.NET Core 3.1 web application written using C#.NET on the server, and jQuery on the frontend (using the Kendo UI and bootstrap frameworks). For the database, we use SQL Server 2019 with Entity Framework Core 3.1 (along with some stored procedures and direct SQL access where needed). The application is deployed in a clustered environment with high-availability.

The team follows an Agile approach with two-week sprints. All code is peer-reviewed with at least one, sometimes two rounds of reviews for each pull request. Most features are covered by automated tests, with over 3,000 individual unit and integration tests covering nearly 70% of the code.

Over the last 4 years, the team has successfully delivered 3 modules (or “business capabilities”), all of which have been received very positively by the respective product owners:

• Common Services: Shared foundation for other modules, including user administration, help center, support requests, and other shared features.
• Strategic Business Management (SBM): This module is used to initially formulate the agency’s goals for each fiscal year, and report on how the goals are progressing throughout the year.
• Capital Investment Plan (CIP): Provides high-level financial planning capability to track funding and expenditures.

You will be supporting the sustainment and enhancement efforts of all current modules listed above, as well as participate in the development of future modules:

• Resource Planning Document (RPD): The RPD module is used to perform detailed qualitative and quantitative financial planning for programs. The output of this module is used by key FAA stakeholders to make funding decisions.
• Program Baseline Management (PBM): PBM will be used to assess actual program results against baseline expectations to determine if the investment program is achieving performance targets, facilitate compliance with federal reporting requirements, and validate that the program’s original business case is still valid.

Responsibilities:

• Write full-stack code to deliver intuitive solutions to complex problems.
• Work closely with a team of developers, product and engineering managers, designers, and end users to ensure the product is meeting the users’ needs while maintaining high code quality.
• Master our existing software development practices – then suggest ways to improve them.
• Apply computer science and systems analysis, knowledge, and techniques to develop and apply solutions to engineering, scientific, and/or management objectives;
• Write unit and integration tests

Education and Experience Requirements:

About CSSI:

CSSI, Inc. has 30 years of experience working in complex, dynamic, safety critical systems supporting both government and commercial clients to address their toughest challenges, with efficient and low-risk solutions. Our collaborative work has improved the safety of transportation related human and systems infrastructure, increased the efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS), and facilitated the modernization of both NAS and DoD systems and capabilities. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., CSSI employs nearly 200 employees throughout the country, helping customers across the United States and globally understand and implement the solutions to their biggest obstacles. For more information on CSSI, Inc., please visit www.cssiinc.com.

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