Duties

The incumbent supports the development and implementation, as well as assuring compliance with national IT technical and IT operational standards. The incumbent is a technical authority and recognized expert in application architecture and software engineering with a strong background in systems engineering and development of IT solutions for delivering enterprise-wide business capabilities.

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Working in the Enterprise Architecture (EA) program, the incumbent is responsible for assisting with the development the judiciary's enterprise architecture and technology framework. As part of a team of EA specialists, the incumbent assists with the management of a multi-million-dollar portfolio of research initiatives and operational pilots like the national Application Program Interface (API) gateway, hybrid cloud, and enterprise remote access to develop services and enterprise solutions that align with the judiciary's strategic direction, business objectives, and IT practices. The incumbent is part of the national authority for enterprise-wide reference architectures and guidance to national program offices supporting the judiciary's missions. The incumbent helps determine the direction, policy, guidance, and compliance of the judiciary's enterprise architecture, in coordination with other enterprise architects, EA principles, policies, concepts, and practices.

Developing agency IT enterprise architecture with responsibility for stand-up and effective integration of legacy software and hardware solutions and identifying new technologies for enterprise-level business solutions.

Participating in major IT efforts with judiciary-wide business impacts. This includes assessments on emerging technologies for applicability to existing and future judiciary systems.

Participating in the development of technical standards related to enterprise identity and access management solutions, to include identity management, authentication systems, authorization, multi-factor authentication, and several other related disciplines.

Reviewing initiatives and operational pilots to identify opportunities to create, leverage, or enhance enterprise-level capabilities to support judiciary business processes.

Working in the development and publication of comprehensive enterprise and segment architectures, reference models, and standards to guide national development efforts and ensuring alignment of the IT architecture and planning with the judiciary business goals.

Developing architectural strategy and providing subject matter expert guidance in Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps), continuous integration, and middleware technologies.

Monitoring and providing input into state-of-the-art IT developments and applications while staying abreast of key market indicators. Overseeing the implementation of new business strategies (e.g., Gateway, and other enterprise, application frameworks).

Modifying and developing IT plans, policies, and procedures in response to new legislation, regulations, directives, and other guidance affecting the program.

Assessing judiciary-wide strategic initiatives and working with diverse stakeholder groups to ensure proper implementation of technical standards and best practices.

Preparing and providing input into reports and other high-level IT documents delineating implications, impediments, making recommendations, and presenting solutions to eliminate redundancy, and support management strategies.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

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.

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 .

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.

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/ .

All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.

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.

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 must demonstrate ALL areas defined below:

Using agile development methodologies as part of a software development lifecycle.

Developing IT architecture and standards, IT governance, and systems engineering.

Working with Cloud architecture and transition.

Education

This position does not require education to qualify.

Additional information

The AO is an Equal Opportunity Employer.