IT Specialist (APPSW) Job in Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job)

Vacancy No. OR-25-DE-12599104-PJL Department Bureau of Land Management
Salary $86,962.00 to $113,047.00 Grade 12 to 12
Perm/Temp Permanent FT/PT Full-time
Open Date 11/14/2024 Close Date 11/29/2024
Job Link Apply Online Who may apply Public
Locations:
Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job)


Summary

**Only the first 50 applicants will be considered.**

This position is located in Division of Management Service, Branch of Information Resources in the Data and Applications Division.

Duties

As an Application Development Team Lead working with a strong emphasis on Microsoft development environment, your role involves supporting and guiding a team of developers and contractors to create robust and efficient software solutions, your role extends beyond technical expertise. Effective organization, communication, leadership, and collaboration are equally essential for success in this position.

Leadership and Coordination:

  • This includes COR responsibilities; you'll lead and coordinate the efforts of a development team. This includes assigning tasks, managing workloads, and ensuring smooth workflow for service delivery. As a team lead, you'll take the lead in engaging customer to set project targets and priorities. You'll define project milestones, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Quality Evaluation: Regularly evaluate the quality of development work. Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and industry norms.

Technical Expertise and Mentorship:
  • Resolve Disputes: Address any disputes or conflicts within the team. Foster a collaborative environment and facilitate effective communication.
  • Training and Mentorship: Provide, recommend and coordinate training and mentorship to team members. Help them enhance their technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and understanding of Microsoft development tools.
  • Keep abreast of the latest Microsoft technologies, frameworks, and tools. Guide team in adopting best practices and staying ahead in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Technical Skills and Decision-Making:
  • Evaluate, develop and implement application solutions possessing a strong understanding of Microsoft development tools (such as Visual Studio, DevOps, Git, .NET, Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, Oracle and SQL Server) is crucial. You'll guide architectural decisions and design choices.
  • Assess risks related to technology choices, scalability, security and performance. Make informed decisions to mitigate these risks.
  • Organize and manage software development life cycle (SDLC) processes for your team. Ensure efficient development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

Project Management and Collaboration:
  • Work closely with business analysts, project managers, and other stakeholders. Understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Continuously innovate to enhance the application's capabilities, performance, deployment, and stability. Explore new features and functionalities offered by Microsoft technologies.
  • Collaborate with customers to gather requirements, provide updates, and ensure alignment with project goals.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • May be required to complete background investigation and drug screening.
  • Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males
  • Must provide resume and supporting documents (See required documents).
  • You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
  • If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
  • Incumbent must possess and maintain a valid State Driver's License for duration of appointment.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. If qualifying based on education, a copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required basic requirement and specialized experience for the respective grade level in which you are applying:

Basic Requirement: All applicants must have IT-related experience demonstrating ALL of the following four competencies:

1) Attention to Detail - Develops programming specifications for modifications to existing complex, interrelated systems, or new systems where precedents exist at the same general level of operation;
2) Customer Service - Develop and support state-of-the-art applications and tools applying standard IT methodologies, requirements analysis, modern analysis and design concepts, enterprise business rules and project documentation and coordination;
3) Oral and Written Communication - Provide technical guidance to an application development team and read, write, and store sensitive unclassified and privacy act data electronically in digital format; and
4) Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

AND

Specialized Experience, GS-12:

In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement listed above, you must also have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained either in the private or public sectors) performing the following: (1) Designing, developing, and managing IT systems that meet current and future business requirements; (2) Applying and extending, enhancing, and/or optimizing existing architectures of application software; (3) Independently conducting system documentation, design, development, configuration management, data administration, system integration and testing; (4) Utilizing computer security regulations to establish computer security procedures; and (5) Facilitating user interface and access to computer systems by giving training on software and interface commands, communications software, and/or application systems.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Volunteer Experience: 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.

You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies".

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.

Additional information

  • Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
  • You will be required to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
  • You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to five (05) nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.
Physical Demands: The work is primarily sedentary. No special physical demands are required to perform the work. Work can require travel to and from meetings and conferences away from the work site and the ability to operate motor vehicle and/or travel my commercial carriers is required. On occasion, incumbent must participate in system demonstrations and field-based test to verify system operation. or investigate operational problems at field locations.

Working Conditions: The work is performed in a typical office setting; but requires travel to attend meeting and conferences and field assignments. On occasion, incumbent must participate in system demonstrations and tests in uncomfortable conditions (rugged outdoor environments, exposed to hot, cold and wet days).

Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. If eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment or relocation incentive. The decision to offer an incentive will be made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For information visit: Recruitment Incentive or Relocation Incentive or Student Loan Repayment.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) or Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP or CTAP eligible see http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ctap_guideline.pdf. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 90 or above on the rating criteria for this position.

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, please contact San Antonio Services Branch at SASBMailbox@opm.gov or 816-541-8101.

Benefits

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

How You Will Be Evaluated

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

A review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the Occupational Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Occupational Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation, you will be rated 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score may be adjusted accordingly. If a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully; errors or omissions may affect your rating.

You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the application questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessments required for this position.

In order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessments, including a subject matter expert resume review. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed below that are required to successfully perform the job.

Candidates will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. These procedures place candidates with veteran's preference above non-preference eligibles within each category. Veterans with a service connected disability of at least 10 percent are listed in the highest quality category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level or higher. Under Category Rating, candidates will be rated and ranked into one of three categories:

  • Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position
  • Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job
  • Qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
You will be evaluated on the following competencies:
  • Customer Service
  • Information Technology Program Management
  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Systems Testing and Evaluation

Required Documents

The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 11/29/2024.

  1. Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, with dates specified in month and year format, and indicate hours worked per week. If military or civilian, please include your rank and/or grade.
  2. A complete Occupational Questionnaire
  3. Other Supporting Documents, if applicable, such as:
  • Veterans Preference Documentation:
    • If you are a Discharged, Non-Disabled Veteran, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 showing character of discharge (Member 4 copy), or other Documentation of Service and Separation under Honorable Conditions, as listed on the SF15. If you don't have your DD-214, you may request it after discharge from the National Archives.
    • If you are a veteran within 120 days of discharge, you must submit signed documentation from the Armed Forces certifying: 1) your expected release/retirement from active duty, 2) under honorable conditions, 3) your pay grade/rank/rate at time of discharge, 4) dates of active duty service, 5) any campaign or expeditionary medals received, & 6) dated within 120 days of your separation.
    • If you are a Disabled Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, or Mother or Spouse of a Disabled or Deceased Veteran, you must submit all additional proof required by the SF15, and if applicable, a completed SF15. You may request a copy of your Department of Veterans Affairs letter from www.ebenefits.va.gov or call 1-800-827-1000 to establish proof of disability.
    4. Documentation for Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Plan consideration if you are a displaced Federal employee within the local commuting area. You must include: 1) Proof you are a displaced Federal employee, e.g., RIF Separation Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc; 2) SF-50s (Notifications of Personnel Action) showing career/conditional tenure competitive status, promotion potential and duty location; and 3) your most recent performance appraisal. To exercise selection priority, displaced or surplus Federal employees must be rated well-qualified or above 90 on the rating criteria for this position.

Do not submit photographs with your application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc.

Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices.

How to Apply

To apply for this position: You must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To receive consideration, the complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 11/29/2024. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES.

  1. Select Apply. If you are not logged in, you will be prompted to login or create an account.
  2. Prompted to Start the Application Process by selecting "Start Application."
  3. Select or add the resume you want to use for this application. Click here on how to build a resume in USAJOBS.
  4. Select documents you want included in this application.
  5. Review package to acknowledge your documents were reviewed.
  6. Select if you want to include your demographic information.
  7. After reading and certifying the application is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site."
  8. Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your application.
  9. Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown.
    • Upload any missing required documents or optional documents.
  10. Review and Submit Application.
  11. While logged in, you can check the status of your application by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position.
  12. You can review or revise your application at any point during the open period of the announcement.
    • To update an application, you should log into your USAJOBS account and select "+" next to the job title for this position. Select "Update Application" for this job.
    • Note: When you click Update Application, you will be prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first application will no longer be associated with the applicant record. So it is important that you select all documents you want to use in the re-application.
  13. To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (Welcome | Login.gov), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to.

Agency contact information

San Antonio Services Branch
Address
BLM Oregon State Office
BLM Oregon State Office, OR-953
1220 SW Third
Portland, OR 97204
US
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Next steps

Once the Occupational Questionnaire is received you will receive acknowledgement that your submission was successful. If you are among the most qualified candidates and your name is referred to the hiring official, you may be contacted directly for a possible interview. You will be notified of the status of your Application Package at the time candidates are referred for consideration, and when the selection process is complete.

This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.


Note: We cannot accept applications on behalf of Federal Agencies. Application instructions are listed within the Job Description.


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