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The United States Space Force (USSF) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH is searching for a Senior Production Manager to support NSIC (GG-2210-13).
This position is covered by the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel Systems (DCIPS). For additional information about DCIPS, click here: https://dcips.defense.gov/
Description:
Are you ready to power the systems that analyze the world's most sophisticated space threats? The 2d Intelligence Analysis Squadron, Mission Enabling Flight-a critical component of the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC)-is seeking a premier Senior IT Project Manager. In this role, you will design, secure, and scale the cutting-edge technical infrastructure, modeling environments, and advanced data pipelines that allow our scientific analysts to discover, characterize, and project foreign space threats. If you want your technical expertise to directly safeguard US dominance in the ultimate high-ground domain, this is where you belong.
Daily, you will lead the integration of sophisticated IT solutions tailored for scientific and technical intelligence production. You will collaborate closely with specialized S&TI analysts, data scientists, and engineers to translate complex scientific requirements into robust, secure IT systems and cloud architectures. From orchestrating agile sprints for custom analysis tools to managing secure network enclaves and ensuring zero-trust compliance, your leadership will guarantee that NSIC's analytical minds have the absolute best technology at their fingertips to outpace the threat.
Ideal Candidate:
- IT Project Management experience, preferably within the DoD, IC, or DAF.
- Proven experience delivering IT systems that support Science and Technology Intelligence (S&TI), high-performance computing, advanced data analytics, or scientific modeling.
- Track record of managing secure software development (DevSecOps) and cloud environments (AWS/C2S) for complex intelligence production.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a hard science/engineering discipline (Master's preferred).
- Highly Desired: Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or Agile/Scrum certification.Skill in conducting unbiased complex research and translating intelligence gaps into actionable collection requirements (utilizing tools like COLISEUM, TABLEAU, email, and phone).
- Deep understanding of the systems required to ingest, analyze, and exploit scientific and technical data.
- Ability to bridge the gap between scientific intelligence analysts, data scientists, and systems engineers.
Requirements
Conditions of employment
- Must be a U.S Citizen.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
- This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.
- Required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
- Incumbent may be required to work non-standard duty hours (evenings/weekends), overtime, or credit hours, and remains subject to recall during exercises, contingencies, or emergency situations.
- Cybersecurity certification is required as a condition of employment.
- This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
- Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
- Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
Qualifications
The 2210 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. There is no Group Coverage Qualification Standard for this series.
Additional information
Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information.
Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here.
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:
Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.
Required Documents
Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:
- Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
- Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
- Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
- Job title
- Detailed duties and accomplishments
- Employer's name and address
- Supervisor's name and phone number
- Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
- Hours per week
- Salary, if applicable
- Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses
College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.