Clarification from the agency

This vacancy is open to the public. This position allows for situational, and recurring telework, but does not qualify for full-time or remote telework.

The Information Technology Specialist (Enterprise Architecture) serves as a subject matter expert and ensures cloud systems are up to date, run smoothly with minimal downtime, and meet an organization's operational needs. The incumbent must have technical authority of networks, data storage, and security measures to develop and reinforce cloud computing solutions, and must work well with professionals who develop and maintain hardware and software across the AO's network and cloud computing infrastructure.
This position reports to the Senior Solutions Architect under the Case Management Systems Office (CMSO).

The duties of the position may include, but are not limited to:

1. Acting as a subject matter expert and providing leadership, guidance, and support on cloud end-to-end architecture, service providers, networking, provisioning, deployment, management, and technical governance.
2. Driving innovation across the Judiciary by designing forward-thinking, modern cloud strategies.
3. Analyzing the platform migration strategy to identify weaknesses and patterns in the current platform and to avoid future deficits.
4. Designing a new cloud-based enterprise computer platform in collaboration with other enterprise, cloud, data, and solution architects.
5. Advocating and defining the cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.
6. Developing solutions architecture and evaluating alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
7. Presenting architectural proposals, gathering feedback, and gaining buy-in from teams across the Judiciary.
8. Collaborating with technical and business subject matter experts to develop the appropriate technology architecture that enables the optimal use of current system requirements while anticipating future needs.
9. Developing a library of deployable, documented cloud design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.
10. Defining scope, analyzing complex business and technical requirements, developing functional and technical design models, managing scope and risks, building applications, configuring products, performing unit testing, and deploying solutions that meet requirements.
11. Providing technical expertise to diagnose and resolve issues, including providing solutions or escalating the issue to service owners.
12. Collaborating with other AO and Judiciary architects to develop best practices, methods, and standards.
13. Making sound decisions backed by research, articulating the pros and cons of several options, and presenting recommendations.
14. Maintaining industry knowledge on the latest trends and technology.
15. Providing technical leadership to team members and technical staff, developing and maintaining cohesive teams across the enterprise, acting as a coach and mentor, and ensuring the teams' continued success.
16. Conducting product work reviews with team members.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
5. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
6. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
7. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience is demonstrated expert-level experience performing application architecture related activities in an open-source model leveraging cloud services and defining and enforcing pre-defined architecture and best practices for large-scale, high-volume web-based and mobile applications.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement.

You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.