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Senior IT Specialist (APPSW) CG-2210-14

Employer
USAJobs
Location
Washington D.C.
Closing date
Apr 22, 2019

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TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Occasional travel - Occasional travel is required.


RELOCATION AUTHORIZED:
Relocation expenses reimbursed Yes Relocation is authorized.


KEY REQUIREMENTS:
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Employment Conditions.

Registration with the Selective Service.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

High Risk Position – Background Investigation (BI) required.

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious/spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

You must have Information Technology (IT)-related experience which demonstrates proficiency in each of the following competencies:

• Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

• Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

• Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Applicants have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the grade CG/GS13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience planning projects, procurement management, and coordination of systems development lifecycle activities for the implementation of enterprise class business applications and IT programs (i.e. SaaS/PaaS Cloud Solutions, Agile and/or iterative methodologies, ServiceNow, Salesforce) coordinating with business community representatives, managing contractor performance, and ensuring business objectives and budget parameters are met in accordance with client business objectives.

There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.

Qualifications Required:

Applicants eligible for ICTAP (Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program) must achieve a score of 80 or higher in the online assessment to be determined “well qualified” for this position. For more information, click here.

To read about your rights and responsibilities as an applicant for Federal employment, click here.  

If selected, you may be required to serve a probationary period.

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

Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire will be reviewed to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement.  Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

Your resume will also be evaluated to measure your responses to the assessment questions. If you rated yourself higher on the questionnaire than what is supported by your resume, your overall qualifications assessment may be adversely affected.

If you are found qualified, you will be placed in one of three categories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. These category assignments are a measure of the degree in which your background and responses to the assessment questions match the competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) listed below. Within these categories, candidates eligible for veterans’ preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans.

  1. Knowledge of applying software engineering concepts using Agile practices to lead projects and manage the efforts of an analytical and programming team making modifications to large-scale applications serving a diverse client community.
  2. Knowledge of system, design and documentation techniques, writing functional requirements, computer programming techniques, job control languages, utilities, database management systems and mainframe, client/server and personal computer programming languages.
  3. Ability to communicate both orally and in writing at managerial and technical levels, and to deal  with opinions and objectives.
  4. Ability to analyze technical IT problems and devise solutions that have corporate-wide applicability.


You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.


To preview questions please click here.

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