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 Position Description Title/PD#: Data Scientist/197460 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.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• May serve a probationary period
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

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. 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.

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.

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]