Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Duties

This IT SPECIALIST position is located The Office of Information and Technology, Enterprise Architecture Division (EAD), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to: Promotes the usage of architectural principles. Understands and reports technological possibilities and limits, develops statements of direction, and identifies risks and associated mitigation. Provides comprehensive technical advice to the TSA Chief Architect and Enterprise Architecture Division (EAD) management on multiple, complex matters pertaining to the application of Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles, policies, concepts, methodologies, and practices with considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches. Leads and performs architectural reviews of plans, designs, and implementation of enterprise systems for the Checkpoint SoS. Provides comprehensive architectural and engineering guidance to systems development teams. Performs highly complex and challenging assignments under minimal direction of a manager. Initiates, directs, and/or conducts pioneering engineering, or OT/IT studies which solve major, unexplored issues across several engineering/information system disciplines. Oversees high-priority mission projects from an architecture perspective. Directs, leads, and/or produces architectural products (e.g. conceptual, solutions, and segment architectures). Applies architecture best practices, standards, and patterns that align with SoS engineering. Leads and/or participates in cross-organizational analyses to identify duplicative investments, gaps, or opportunities for collaboration within TSA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and across Federal agencies.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for the SV-I Pay Band (equivalent to GS-13), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-H Pay Band or GS-12 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Specialize experience is defined as: Experience applying technical knowledge in the alignment of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) in the areas of architecture, governance, security, System of Systems (SoS engineering), and software /hardware management. Experience applying enterprise cybersecurity standards to system architectures (e.g. Zero Trust Architectures as outlined in Executive Orders, NIST guides, Technical Configurations, and Zero Trust Architectures by the Department of Defense) Experience in enterprise architecture theories, principles, concepts, methodologies, plans, and systems with the mission, goals, and processes of the organization.

Education

For positions requiring positive education requirements, or if you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses from an accredited college or university, which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume. The information must be provided with the application by the closing date of the announcement. If selected, the applicant must supply a transcript or certification of degree.

Contacts

• Address ES - Information Technology 6595 Springfield Center Dr Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: HC ServeU Customer Care
• Email: [email protected]