IT Specialist (DATAMGT)
What you'd do
This position is located at Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Office of the Chief Data Officer. As an IT Specialist (DATAMGT), you will be implementing the Bureau's data strategy, which includes expanding its Fiscal Data Hub. The Fiscal Data Hub offers a cloud-native sandbox environment backed by Databricks and AWS designed for exploring, integrating, and predictive modeling on billions of structured records.
Major duties
**IMPORTANT PLEASE READ** This announcement contains a two-phase process. Upon completion of Phase 1, you must click on the exclusive link to complete the manual assessment. The next phase it will take one hour, at a minimum, to complete. The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position. Serve as a seasoned data engineer responsible for developing data ETL pipelines in Python and Spark. Craft data storage and processing solutions using structured query language (SQL), unstructured query language (NoSQL), and/or commercial cloud services. Catalog metadata and create automated data quality and integrity checks. Create and advise on software templates and standards to be used by other offices for their migration to cloud infrastructure. Receive, evaluate and responds to user requests for special purpose reports drawn from various databases.
What you need to qualify
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé. For the GS-13, you must have one year (full 52 weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: - Leading enterprise data engineering modernization across cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud, or large-scale data environments. AND - Establishing architecture standards and reusable patterns for data integration, governance, metadata, virtualization, data mesh, automation, and cloud migration. AND - Advising technical teams, leaders, and stakeholders on platform strategy, scalable pipelines, APIs, data services, ETL/ELT, data quality, security, AI-ready data, and AWS or Azure implementation. For the GS-12, you must have one year (full 52 weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: - Independently developing and optimizing data engineering solutions for large or complex datasets, including ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, and cloud-based workflows AND - Integrating data from multiple sources using modern tools such as scripting languages, query languages, APIs, AWS, Azure, NoSQL, or distributed processing technologies. AND - Implementing data quality, lineage, metadata, security, and governance controls to support analytics, dashboards, automation, AI/ML use cases, and reliable operations. For the GS-11, you must have one year (full 52 weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: - Developing and maintaining data pipelines that extract, transform, load, validate, or move data across systems AND - Using modern data engineering tools such as scripting languages, query languages, APIs, Jupyter or cloud-based notebook environments, version control, and cloud services to clean, transform, validate, and automate data workflows. AND - Supporting ETL/ELT processes, APIs, dashboards, reporting, documentation, quality checks, and preparation of datasets for analytics or AI/ML use cases In addition to meeting specialized experience, at the GS-12 and GS-13 level, individuals must have experience demonstrating each of the following competencies: Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Decision Making, Information Management, Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Problem Solving, Teamwork, and Technical Competence. In addition to meeting specialized experience, at the GS-11 level, individuals must have experience demonstrating each of the following competencies: Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Interpersonal Skills, Problem Solving, Teamwork, and Technical Competence. A work sample may be used to determine if you meet the required proficiency levels. You will receive a sample job task or scenario to complete; or you will provide a writing sample. For the required proficiency levels and competency definitions, please see the following link: Competency-Based Qualification Standard for the Information Technology Management Series, 2210 For Phase 2, you will access the exclusive link to complete the manual assessment provided at the end of the questionnaire.
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