You will serve as a SUPERVISORY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST (APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE) in the DEPT OF NAVY COMMANDER FLEET READINESS CENTERS DIGITAL GROUP of COMFLTREADCEN.

Duties

You will lead and mentor developers supporting development teams. You will identify, understand, and apply best practices to software development lifecycle processes. You will provide technical Advice and Guidance and recommendations for IT solutions to Technical Analysts and Management on critical IT issues. You will mentor other junior developers. You will analyze information technology (IT) systems malfunctions to implement corrective actions. You will define and implement a standardized deployment process that delivers patches, enhancements and major releases in an Agile manner. You will establish and implement metrics for evaluating the accomplishment of enterprise architecture goals and objectives and identify and resolve IT issues. You will directly or indirectly influence Enterprise move towards DevOps focus culture. You will maintain knowledge of new computer software/hardware technological advances and recommends improvements when appropriate. You will define, develop, test, document and implement systems, applications and processes.

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 designated as a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce position. You must obtain and maintain the credentials as described in SECNAV M-5239.2 for specialty area and level I within 12 months of appointment.
• 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.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Specialized experience must demonstrate the following. Your experience must reflect skill in the following areas: attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, problem solving, 5+ years hands-on software development experience in Java, building and maintaining developer knowledge, skills, and experience. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Manages programs, evaluates, and coaches/mentors, monitor progress and evaluate outcomes to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; seeks/generates and evaluates alternative perspectives/solutions; makes timely/effective recommendations, critically evaluates to identify the causes of problems and chooses courses of action that balance the interests of the mission and stakeholders. Design, documentation, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation, and support of new or existing application software. Develop software solutions which provide integrated information management and information technology capabilities to meet specified warfighter and business requirements. Provide functional and/or technical support to customers to ensure validation of requirements and delivery of Information Technology capabilities. Mentoring the Agile Teams to isolate impediments and risks, evaluate impact of priority of the risks and impediments and take corrective action to include briefing management and upper management in a concise and understandable manner while presenting alternative solution options and recommendations Conducts environmental scans to identify, evaluate, and recommend IT tools for consideration that improve the quality, effectiveness, and agility of the IT/IM Department to meet their objectives. Experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing Hands-on Experience with continuous integration and building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, Team) Hands-on software development experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, and/or modern Java frameworks Experience mentoring other junior developers Hands-on Experience writing and maintaining technical documentation such us: Deployment diagrams, Architecture design diagram, Installation plan, Database Design diagrams, topology diagrams. Hands-on Experience with Version control using GIT, GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket Hands-on Experience in software development techniques such as: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing Knowledge of and experience with Agile approaches, terminology and Tools: Scrum, Kanban, Atlassian Tool Suite, SonarQube, Sprints, velocity, story points etc. 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/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/ OR https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-b/ . 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

Bachelor Degree or higher from accredited University in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering

Contacts

• Address COMFLTREADCEN 47123 Buse Road Bldg 2272 Suite 540 Patuxent River, MD 20670 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]