The Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) is a part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), located in Washington, D.C. The Board's mission is to conduct hearings and decide appeals properly before the Board in a timely manner. This position is organizationally located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Board of Veterans' Affairs (Board), Office of Appellate Support, Technical Infrastructure Branch.

Duties

The incumbent serves as a technical program expert for Technical Infrastructure Branch performing a wide range of analyses, reporting, project management, and training activities. Develops, integrates, and maintains data and extract, transform and load (ETL) procedures to ensure the integrity and efficiency of data interchanges. Develops forensically sound, auditable, flexible, repeatable, and scalable ETL capabilities through data engineering best practices on a variety of structure, unstructured, and metadata. Performs testing as necessary for workflows for routing and data transformation. Performs data mapping and validation between existing, modified, and future applications to ensure efficient and effective electronic translation of data between systems, ensuring that the Board's components are provided with the data necessary to carry out the Board's mission of providing timely and accurate services to Veterans. Major Duties: Mastery of and skill in applying a broad range of data analyses, mathematics, statistical analysis, modeling/simulation, and/or other scientific concepts, principles, standards, methods, techniques, practices, and procedures. Mastery of and skill in applying, project management and organizational principles and practices, and data administration and data related policies and standards, and process engineering concepts. Develops operating procedures for the Board stakeholders to use data systems to format and submit data for inclusion in the Board's data warehouse. Collaborates with all developers and business users to gather required data and execute all ETL programs and scripts on systems. Implements all data warehouse activities and prepares reports for same. Works with database, data warehouse, and data lake developers/contractors to ensure analytical utility of data in the data warehouse and applications. Creates applications allowing Board users access to the data. Conveys results of analyses, insights, and work products to decision makers, managers, and other personnel. Develops, coordinates, implements, and documents all ETL procedures for all new projects and maintains effective awareness of all production activities according to required standards. Performs tests and validations for all ETL processes and provides support to all existing ETL processes and applications. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Data Scientist/PD197460 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/17/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Basic Qualifications Standard for Data Science Series, 1560: To be eligible for this position you must meet one of the below basic qualifications. Have earned a degree in: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position. or Posses a combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in the paragraph above, plus additional education or appropriate experience. ** Note: You MUST submit transcripts as verification of educational requirement. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Your resume must clearly support at least 3 of the listed specialized experience items to be minimally qualified.Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Developing, integrating, and maintaining data and extract transform and load (ETL) procedures to ensure the integrity and efficiency of data interchanges. Collaborating with all developers and business users to gather required data and execute all ETL programs and scripts on systems. Database administration with scripting expertise in Unix Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby to receive data from multiple systems and databases. Working with databases, data warehouse, and data lake developers/contractors to ensure analytical utility of data in various applications. Creating applications allowing users access to data. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Data Systems Customer Service Mathematical Reasoning Project Management Data Management Reasoning 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary. The incumbent may carry light items such as books, instruments, and other similar materials. The incumbent may travel to various VA facilities, training sites, or conferences. The work does not require any special physical effort. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Board of Veterans' Appeals 425 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]