Supervisory IT Specialist

You must meet the Basic Requirements Experience, Specialized Experience and Selective Placement Factors to qualify for this series as described below:

Experience must be IT related; the experience may be demonstrated by paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (for example, IT certification), as appropriate. For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the five competencies listed below. The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency at each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled.

• 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

In addition to the minimum qualifications described above, you must meet the following requirement(s) to be considered qualified for the position: experience leading the development and operation of enterprise class Master Data Management (MDM) platforms in cloud native environments. This includes hands on ownership of mastering rules, metadata/lineage, and development or technical leadership building authoritative APIs. Evidence must show responsibility for platform component design, implementation, integration patterns (event streaming and change data capture (CDC), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), and Extract-Load-Transform (ELT), and adhering to production SLAs.

Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, you must possess a minimum of one (1) year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: experience in a technical leadership role including engineering or architecture of cloud- native Master Data Management (MDM) services that create authoritative records while synchronizing mastered data across diverse source and consumer systems through event- driven and change data capture (CDC), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), and Extract-Load-Transform (ELT) patterns.

This experience includes leading the development of data APIs (e.g., REST) as products. Candidates must also demonstrate leadership of platform operations (observability and incident response, capacity planning and resilience) with adherence to availability, latency, and data correctness standards. Candidates must have demonstrated experience evaluating technical products and software implementation approaches to solve complex business issues, presenting options to team members and leadership to determine a path forward.

Familiarity with VA data domains and integration patterns (e.g., authoritative identity and benefits repositories) is highly desirable but not required.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..