You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY DATA SCIENTIST, OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST (CHIEF PRODUCT OWNER) in the Air Systems Group, Logistics Department, Readiness & Fleet Analytics Division, Advanced Analytics & Innovation Branch of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV.

Duties

You will serve as a data scientist subject matter expert and technical leader within the AB36200 branch. Lead, teach, and mentor the product owners by providing cross-product technical direction and agile development training. You will facilitate and make recommendations to assist the branch head and section heads with the definition of requirements and identification of proper skill sets required to execute products and services within the branch. You will research, investigate, and facilitate the submittal of proposals each fiscal year to create research and development opportunities within the branch to innovate and prototype advanced data science products for the fleet. You will support both the Readiness and Fleet Analytics Division and NAWCAD ASG leadership, as well as FST and program office (PMA) leadership.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12-13 grade level or DP-04 pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1.Using and applying data scientific techniques, methods, and tools to extract data to identify patterns, and/or make predictions on future outcomes; 2. Utilizing the Scrum/ agile development framework to lead teams of interdisciplinary engineers and scientists to build data analytical products; 3. Identifying the various stages to data science development and how SQL, R, or Python computer programming languages are used to build analytical tools; and 4. Designing and developing user-centric interactive reports, dashboards, and visualization solutions using SQL, R, or Python programming languages, and Tableau or Qlik visualization tools. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

For the GS-1515, Professional Operations Research Series:

A. Have a bachelor's or higher degree in operations research.
or
B. Have successfully completed a bachelor's or higher degree with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics and at least 3 of the 24 semester hours are in calculus.


For the GS-1560, Data Science Series:

A. Have a bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or a field directly related to the position.
or
B. Have a combination of education and experience, where my courses are equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or a field directly related to the position, plus additional education or appropriate experience that equates to one year of experience. My percentage of the required education plus my percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent.

Contacts

• Address NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV Naval Air Warfare Center Patuxent River, MD 20670-5304 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]