Clarification from the agency

This vacancy announcement is open to the public. This position is eligible for full-time remote telework.

The Information Technology Specialist (Data Management) position will report to the Senior Solutions Architect in the Case Management Systems Office (CMSO). This role serves as a subject matter expert that must optimize the fragmented legacy processes into an integrated approach with coding standards that are responsive to change.

The incumbent works closely with other offices within the Administrative Office (AO), specifically the Technology Services Office, which is responsible for enterprise standards across the judiciary. The ideal candidate must be able to lead, operate, and implement continuous application development process improvements throughout CMSO through coding standards, work with other enterprise, cloud, data, and solution architects across the judiciary in the design of a new cloud-based enterprise compute platform for a critical system at the judiciary.

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

1. Analyzing and recommending architect data and document storage needs for a cloud-based system with multiple-TB of data and over one billion documents, a high number of transactions, and critical real-time redundancy and failover needs.
2. Developing a consolidated data storage schema to merge three disparate systems into a unified logical database, optimized for speed, transaction reliability, and cost.
3. Providing system and data egress needs and developing appropriate strategies for transferring data amongst other enterprise systems, both cloud and on-prem.
4. Working with other enterprise architects and Enterprise Data Office to implement an effective data governance policy.
5. Developing and implementing strategies to secure system data and other information assets which are extremely sensitive and confidential with the IT Security Office.
6. Collaborating with other Enterprise data and analytics leaders across the judiciary to enable effective access to system data for reporting and analytical needs.
7. Working with data analyst design and preparing for a large migration exercise, using strategies which allow for the least amount of downtime and incremental adoption.

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 in 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.

Highly Desired:

• In-depth experience with at least one Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) platform.
• Knowledge of modern document storage design.
• Agile development experience.

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.