IT Specialist (Project Manager) - Military Veterans

Summary The employee serves as an Information Technology Specialist in the Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV). Responsible for implementing, conducting, auditing, and directing activities required to achieve AOV goals. Responsibilities The Information Technology (IT) Specialist performs multiple, varying and complex assignments under the minimal direction of a manager, project manager, team leader, or more experienced technical specialist. Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of information technology (IT) project management principles, methods, and practices, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems. Leads, coordinates, communicates, and integrates IT projects, ensuring alignment with agency priorities. The work includes project selection, prioritization, evaluation and monitoring, cost schedule management, risk management, quality management and resource allocations. As the IT Project Manager, has direct responsibility for project management to plan, coordinate, and conduct projects and studies. Defines, organizes, and assigns resources to accomplish organizational objectives. Identifies customers’ information systems requirements, and analyzes information systems requirements or environment. Allocates resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. conducts analytical studies, cost-benefits analyses, and researches. Monitors the conceptualization and detailed design of custom IT applications, to ensure applications maximize the reuse of secure IT Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enterprise services and adheres to enterprise technology and security standards for consistency and security. Ensures the integration of IT projects and services. Develops information systems testing strategies, plans, or scenarios. Identifies standards or requirements for infrastructure configuration or change management. Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems. Coordinates and manages groups focused on developing and implementing practical solutions for IT architecture, capital investment planning, e-Government, and other IT-related legislative and policy initiatives. Manages the sustainment phase of applications, offering comprehensive product management and technical support ensuring applications remain functional and efficient, addressing ongoing maintenance needs effectively. Investigates and assesses systems and operations to identified hazards/risks and ineffective controls for system-wide safety issues. Delivers application solutions that meet a clear set of functional and non-functional requirements. Promotes an application architecture aligned with organizational standards to ensure operational fitness and maintain quality. Utilizes technical knowledge of the organization's policy and planning processes, capital investment planning, and enterprise IT goals to support the development of IT goals, objectives, plans, and policies. Analyzes report data to identify areas for continuous improvement and support risk-based decision-making. Provides management with status reports on programs. Analyzes data from reports to suggest areas of continuous improvement of data collected and reporting to support risk based decision making. Analyzes trends, identities problems and factors most likely to impact operating costs, profitability, and continued compliance with regulatory requirements. Proposes preventive actions and methods for ensuring FAA policies and practices align with emerging changes to transportation industry operations. Uses broad policies and objectives for general guidance for addressing issues, but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches applicable to emerging transportation issues. Identifies quality data sources to use in analyzing issues and assessing the impact of regulatory changes and proposing rule-making changes/initiatives. Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications For additional information please view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for IT Specialist, please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/ To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience is: Experience ensuring the operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and system administration of applications effectiveness in a production environment. Experience analyzing report data to identify areas for continuous improvement and support risk-based decision-making. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Some, all, or none of the applicants may be interviewed. Education Additional Information We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required. The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA); Demonstrated Abilities; Leadership and Management Dimensions listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA