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 (ENTARCH) position is located in Enterprise Support (ES), Office of Information Technology (IT), Enterprise Architecture Division (EAD), Applied Architecture (AAB), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to: Applies experience and advanced technical knowledge applicable and promotes the usage of architectural principles. Understands and reports technological possibilities and limits, develops statements of direction, and identifies risks and associated mitigation. Contributes to the policies and principles to guide technology decisions for the enterprise architecture. Provides advanced technical advice to the TSA Chief Architect and Enterprise Architecture Division (EAD) management on multiple and 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. Serves as a contributing specialist on solution, segment, or strategic architecture teams while providing expert systems architecture knowledge to the teams. Performs architectural reviews of plans, designs, and implementation of enterprise-wide information systems. Provides advanced architectural and engineering guidance to systems development teams. Performs multiple, varying, and complex assignments under limited direction of a manager. Initiates, and/or conducts pioneering engineering, or IT studies which solve major, unexplored issues across engineering/ information system disciplines. Conducts studies to identify improvements in the way systems architecture is applied to key business and mission functions for TSA. Identifies opportunities to improve enterprise systems to support mission and business processes and utilizes emerging technologies. Assists the Branch Chief in the areas of architectural analysis, policy development, scorecard compliance, and establishment of architectural principles, standards. Produces architectural products (e.g., conceptual, solutions, and segment architectures). Applies systems architecture best practices, standards, and patterns. Determines the gaps between the current and the target architecture and develops plans for transitioning to target architecture. Develops components of the enterprise architecture plan including strategic drivers, current and target architectures, the sequencing plan, architectural segments and reference models, standards. The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position. Typically, the lower pay band (I Band) performs the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and/or projects/work assignments may be less complex.

Requirements

Qualifications

FOR ALL IT POSITIONS: To qualify, you must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. In addition to the requirements for all IT positions, 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 or GS-12 Pay Band 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. The specialized experience must correspond with your submitted resume. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience and technical knowledge in the alignment of systems/solution architecture and infrastructure in the areas of enterprise architecture, governance, security, cloud architecture, systems engineering, and software/hardware management; AND Experience understanding 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); AND Experience in enterprise architecture theories, principles, concepts, methodologies, plans, and systems with the mission, goals, and processes of the organization. In addition to the requirements for all IT positions, to qualify for the SV-J Pay Band (equivalent to GS-14), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-I or GS-13 Pay Band 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. The specialized experience must correspond with your submitted resume. Specialized experience is defined as: Comprehensive experience applying technical knowledge in the alignment of systems/solution architecture and infrastructure in the areas of enterprise architecture, governance, security, cloud architecture, systems engineering, and software/hardware management; AND Comprehensive 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); AND Comprehensive experience in enterprise architecture theories, principles, concepts, methodologies, plans, and systems with the mission, goals, and processes of the organization. Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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; 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Resumes must include the following: Narrative description of duties with start and end dates (including the month and year) for work experience. State the number of hours worked in a position (i.e. full-time or part-time). If part-time, state the total number of hours worked per week. Performance level (i.e. band or grade) Utilizing the USAJOBS Resume Builder and completing all available fields is strongly encouraged. You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

Contacts

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