Clarification from the agency

This announcement is open to: All U.S. Citizens.

As a COMPUTER SCIENTIST you will be responsible for the following duties:

• Responds in a timely manner appropriate to all emergency or continuity situations and hazard threats in order to assist the Chief of Mission Assurance with providing DCSA leadership and staff with appropriate guidance to respond to and recover from to any emergency, continuity or all hazards threat event.
• Serves as a Data Architect responsible for developing and implementing architectural solutions that are in direct support of DCSA's integration of PAEI across various mission areas.
• Collaborates and coordinate with mission stakeholders for the development of technical capabilities that support the Agency's implementation of PAEI.
• Work within DCSA's Ai Architectural framework and little additional guidance for Ai-enabled capability development including related technology and data integration solution recommendations.
• Develops, formulates, advises and directs sensitive and critical operational concepts and strategies for broad spectrum programs, projects and initiatives undertaken by the PEO or Mission or Mission Support Areas in direct support of mission goals and priorities from the Director, DCSA.
• Analyzes supported organizations missions and operations to determine current and future impacts, administrative operations and adjusts operations to meet changing conditions and situations.
• Researches artificial intelligence (Ai) including the application of computers to solve problems and to understand the principles of human intelligence.
• Investigates/integrates natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to enhance machine learning (ML) enabled data processing capabilities.
• Serves as a catalyst for creative engineering/computer scientist thinking to integrate new technology capabilities and opportunities to develop more effective and responsive intelligence.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US citizen
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. For more information http://www.sss.gov
• Resume and supporting documents received by 11:59PM EST will be considered
• This is a Drug Testing designated position
• Position is a (DCIPS) position in the Excepted Service under U.S.C. 1601
• Work Schedule: Full Time
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• PCS (Permanent Change of Station): May be authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible, but is not a full time telework position. The incumbent will be required to report to the office on a routine basis.
• COVID19: See additional information.
• If selected, the incumbent must obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance as indicated in job announcement.
• This position is designated special-sensitive; the incumbent must obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
• The duties of this position may require temporary duty (TDY) travel and/or local travel.

Qualifications

This position has a Basic Requirement for the 1550:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
*NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.

The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: Computer Science Series 1550 (opm.gov) i.e. for professional positions or positions with a basic education requirement: General Schedule Qualification Standards (opm.gov) for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 04/11/2023

Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position.

You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade (GS/GG-13) in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility. Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience.

Specialized experience for this position includes: principles of data science, data engineering, and/or data architecture. This experience is typically demonstrated by evidence of development of Ai/ML/NLP constructs/algorithms using a variety of tools and languages. Programming experience might be demonstrated by use of python, R, java, javascript, C, C# and/or agent-based coding used in robotics.

NOTE: Your resume must include the specialized experience in your employment history in order to meet qualification review.

Specifically you will be evaluated on the following competencies:
1. Data Analysis - Manipulate and exploit internal and external, structured, and unstructured data sources to accomplish organizational goals.

2. Programming Languages - Use programming languages to script and automate tasks; applies programming languages and skills across multiple platforms or frameworks.

3. Modeling and Simulation - Apply tools, techniques, and procedures to develop functional, physical, or prototype models and simulations for training, testing and evaluation, the prediction of behavior and phenomena, the evaluation of design alternatives, to support operational preparation, and to visually communicate concepts and/or validate requirements.

4. Software Engineering - Designs software utilizing the software life cycle process; develops, deploys, updates, maintains, and tests software using methodologies and tools; designs to leverage software reusability; and establishes and utilizes software engineering metrics.

How you will be evaluated

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

Read the job opportunity carefully to make sure you have included all required contact information.
Include dates, hours, level of experience and examples for each work experience
For each work experience you list, make sure you include:

• Start and end dates (including the month and year).
• The number of hours you worked per week.
• The level and amount of experience-for instance, whether you served as a project manager or a team member helps to illustrate your level of experience.
• Examples of relevant experiences and accomplishments that prove you can perform the tasks at the level required for the job as stated in the job announcement. Your experience needs to address every required qualification.

If your resume does not clearly outline details for each position as noted, you may be deemed "not referred" for this position.

Once the application process is complete, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the Occupational Questionnaire. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job If you are found to be among the top candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.