IT Specialist

Summary

The incumbent will work within the NAS Enterprise Services Team, Infrastructure Subteam, AJW-1721.

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Duties

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Incumbent serves as a lead software developer and technical authority on project teams that may include computer engineers, computer specialists, computer scientists, and electronic engineers for at least one of the following systems (NCR, SFDPS, IAM, ESM, NADIN, AMHS). Plans and conducts analyses of broad areas of projected work processes, operational practices, problems, and system needs. The incumbent is responsible for providing technical direction and guidance for system software development and deployment. In this capacity, the candidate will be responsible for all aspects of second-level engineering and system maintenance.

Incumbent designs, develops, and conducts complex independent and interdependent technical analysis to identify and resolve problems that impact system performance, maintainability, reliability, usability, or service continuity. Identifies system requirements and demands for modified objectives, enhancements, procedures, techniques, and equipment and evaluate timeframes of needed modifications. This includes, but is not limited to, software development, testing, field support, identifying future system requirements validation and verification of system bugs and errors, system restoration, project planning, system maintenance, and software installations.

Based on technical expertise, incumbent provides input to management on plans, resources, schedules, priorities, and goals of a project. Maintains an awareness of the status and progress of all projects within the assigned technical area and recommends adjustments in accordance with established priorities.

Incumbent will work with external stakeholders to identify system needs and priorities as well as working with management to get projects approved and scheduled and will be responsible for evaluating team workloads and assigning work to individual members of the team.

Incumbent will also lead the team with supporting the field when assistance is required. This will include working with field personnel to troubleshoot and resolve system problems restoring functionality to the NAS. Incumbent will have the overall responsibility for identifying root cause of system events, communicating findings upward to management and outward to other stakeholders. Incumbent will lead the team to identify and implement corrective actions to identified system problems, including developing system software updates.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• ship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).

Qualifications

For additional information please view the complete OPM qualification standard for IT Specialist, please visit:

Information Technology (IT) Management Series 2210 (Alternative A) (opm.gov)

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I / FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is: Experience with the operation, software development code, and troubleshooting of at least one of the following systems (NCR, SFDPS, IAM, ESM, NADIN, AMHS). Experience in providing second level engineering support to first level maintainers. Experience withCMHP FAA specifications and coding standards, relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Java Message Services (JMS), flight data publication, ActiveMQ, Rabbit MQ, Mosquitto, Solace, and/or FAA information display systems.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Some, all, or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

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Additional information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.

Position may be subject to a background investigation.

A one-year probationary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. ;br>
As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Leadership and Management Dimensions listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical order and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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