Total 126 Information Technology job vacancies in IN-Plainfield-IDS-IU Integrated Srv Ctr

Major Duties:
-Plans, coordinates, develops, improves, and implements efficient and economical management of information systems in support of Service Line activities.
-Accomplishes long and short-range projects in the modification of systems and software.
-Provides guidance for the solution of difficult and unprecedented problems resulting from new or modified operational management information concepts and requirements.
-Applies limited functional knowledge of material, in implementing new and/or improved information systems.
-Applies extensive knowledge of changes in the state-of-the-art regarding integrated information and control systems analysis and other scientific management techniques used in the implementation of information systems.
-Provides feedback to the Supervisor on information gained.
-Researching and testing products and services to support the information plan and directives to determine requirements, life-cycle management to determine support and replacement resource requirements.

Promotion Potential: This position is at full performance level.

Work Schedule: M-F, 8:00-4:30 pm
Virtual: This is a remote position.
Position Description/PD#: IT Specialist/19423A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Work Environment: The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions.

This announcement will close on 11/27/2024. The first 100 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management.

This is a temporary promotion, not to exceed 1 Year and may be extended at the needs of management. This specific announcement will not be able to be made permanent. Upon termination of the promotion, you will be returned to your original position of record, or to a different position of equivalent grade and pay. Temporary promotions may be terminated at any time based on the needs of management. If you are currently employed at a grade equivalent to, or higher than the advertised position, the action will be considered a detail for processing purposes, and no salary increase will be associated with accepting the position. Upon termination of the detail, you will be returned to your original position of record. Details may be terminated at any time based on needs of management.

Major duties include, but not limited to:

Program Administration

• Responsible for providing expert support to the Executive Director, Deputy Executive Directors, Portfolio Directors, and leaders within ONS for program matters pertaining to evaluation of the effectiveness of programs and operations.
• Prepares comprehensive reports, presentations, publications, and responses to incoming task/action requests.
• Produces complex analyses and written reports; organizing special committees, workshops, or other gatherings; initiating program reviews; developing or fostering cross-agency activities.
• Serves as a technical expert and programmatic consultant for assigned mission areas that have impact across the enterprise.
• Reviews portfolio/program area budget initiatives, subsequent justifications and defends for the clinical or administrative area to the ONS executive leaders as needed.
• Actively participates with upper management in defining strategic goals, developing, and implementing administrative and clinical programs, and education of staff regarding processes related to operations, research, assisting in measurements of those goals, and contributing to the success of projects.
• Independently plans and initiates fact finding, analyzing data, and developing recommendations from a variety of alternatives.
• Works closely with VA Central Office and Consortia/Networks to ensure the ONS performance levels meet the national criteria.
• Identifies system development issues and/or data capture issues (i.e., absence of data, quality of data, and timeliness of data collection), develops and implements plans for addressing issues.

• Develops thorough, administrative, and strategic operational initiatives of ONS enabling the specialist to identify problems, analyze data, and recommend resolutions based on specific knowledge of the organizational objectives, priorities, resources, and oversight area.
• Uses databases and registries, formulates tools to support the program, and ensure quality management and administrative oversight.
• Provides technical expertise in the field of health care planning; provides advice and assistance regarding possible need for revision of regulations and policies governing planning activities.
• Analyzes and interprets data to identify the effectiveness of initiatives and programs within the ONS to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensures that proposals/initiatives submitted for ONS approval are complete and all implementation requirements are accurately identified.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 100 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 100th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As an IT Specialist (INFOSEC), GS-2210-15, you will be responsible for:

• Oversees Identity and Access Management (IAM) projects which support Federal Student Aid (FSA), enterprise and other services which facilitates information sharing and collaboration between FSA, Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) other federal agencies and stakeholders.
• Provides critical reviews and recommendations for the design strategy, implementation, management, monitoring, and accountability for IAM solutions.
• The incumbent serves as a professional with specialized knowledge in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Division providing users, identity, and access management for two major enterprise systems and one data center system.
• Develops long-range IT plans which anticipates, identifies, evaluates, mitigates, and minimizes risks associated with Identity Credentialing and Access Management IT systems.
• Researches and defines mission needs, life cycle of data, and the protections needed for provenance, pedigree, and access control of data and meta data in the enterprise environment.

As an Information Technology Specialist (Applications Software) at the GS-2210-12, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• The design, documentation, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation, and support of new or existing applications software.
• Interactive communication with end users and OCA management.
• Evaluating new technologies, especially upgrades to existing development tools, to assure backwards compatibility with existing applications, to justify acquisition based on cost/benefit analysis, and potential for unresolved bugs which is common in new applications.
• Designing applications architecture and program codes to multi-tier client/server model that isolates and optimizes components for data access, business rules and user interfaces.

• The Term Appointment does not confer competitive status, reinstatement rights, or eligibility for non-competitive conversion to a permanent job to the individual(s) selected. You may be promoted or reassigned to another term position within SBA's Office of Capital Access; however, you may not be non-competitively appointed to another Federal position. You will be given an initial Term Appointment lasting more than 1 year, but not more than 4 years. If all other conditions of employment are met, this appointment may be extended, up to a total of four (4) years in increments determined by SBA.
• If selected, employees work on an intermittent (on-call) work schedule. This means that employees are in a pay status only when activated to respond to workload needs, especially in response to heightened disaster activity. When no longer needed, employees return to a non-pay status until the next event necessitates additional staff.
• However, depending on the workload and/or level of disaster activity, your work schedule may be changed to full-time. Subsequently, if the workload decreases, your work schedule may be changed back to intermittent.
• Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 180 days from the closing date.
• This is not a bargaining unit position.

This vacancy will close on the posted closing date OR at 11:59 p.m. EST on the day in which 100 applications are received, whichever comes first.

The Multi-Channel Technology, Chief Data Officer is a position within the Veterans Experience Office (VEO), Multi-Channel Technology Directorate. This position also serves as the Division Chief over the Customer Information Services Division of MCT and will lead data driven innovations and transformations for the VA enterprise, specifically in the customer and omnichannel data domains. They will lead and manage an array of capabilities to provide authoritative customer data to the Department for both transactional and analytic needs with the burden on VA's customers to prove who they are and provide this information more than once and to help VA employees utilize accurate customer data to provide efficient and personalized services. Additional responsibilities include investigation, adoption, and exploitation of artificial intelligence. In addition, they will lead the research, strategy creation and development of new data products or services to improve the customer and employee experiences, and to enable the acceleration of digital business innovation and transformation. They will foster the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy within MCT, VEO, and the VA enterprise. They will lead these transformation efforts by developing data and analytics talent and maturing the data capability of MCT.

The CIS Division Chief is responsible for overseeing all aspects of MCT's data strategy, governance, and management. The Division Chief plays a pivotal role in leveraging data as a strategic asset to drive business growth, developing advanced data-driven capabilities to enhance decision-making, and ensure data compliance and security. All data efforts require collaboration and coordination from other VA organizations as well as Department of Defense.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy aligned with the VEO and MCT's organizational goals
• Establish and enforce data governance policies, processes, standards, and best practices to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with relevant regulations.
• Define data access controls and permissions to safeguard sensitive information.
• Support compliance with data privacy regulations and implement robust security policy and measures to protect sensitive customer data.
• Identify opportunities to leverage data for innovation.
• Explore emerging technologies and trends in data management and analytics.
• Work closely with product managers and development teams to embed data-driven features and functionalities into existing and upcoming products.
• Identify opportunities for innovation through data analytics, leading to enhanced user experiences and customer satisfaction.
• Develop strategies and partnerships that leverage the exchange of data to drive business outcomes.
• Oversee data collection, integration, storage, and retrieval processes.
• Manage data architecture and infrastructure, including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Define data quality standards and oversee data profiling and cleansing efforts.
• Ensure data is accessible, reliable, and available for operational and analytical purposes.
• Drive the goals and priorities for the design and maintenance of scalable and efficient data infrastructure and systems that support data ingestion, storage, processing, and retrieval.

This position is located within the Central Office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), in the Systems Development Branch (SDB) of the Information Technology and Data Division (ITDD).

Provides expert guidance and technical support to IT specialists regarding the requirements analysis, design, programming, testing, and implementation for FBOP databases.

Researches specific IT topics to evaluate alternatives. Integrates and uses the respective IT knowledge in the formulation of plans that meet operational objectives.

Reviews code to ensure industry standards and best practices are met with a focus on business requirements.

Develops complex queries, reports, dashboards, and designs report formats; carries out prototyping, develops code, tests, and implements it in the production environment.

Architects data warehousing reporting solutions from conception to delivery consisting of analysis of high level design, data modeling, extract, transform, and load (ETL) development, user interface development, integration, and implementation, using the appropriate tools.

NOTE: This is a remote position. The salary range listed on this announcement reflects the minimum and maximum salary range for all locations. Upon selection, the salary will be adjusted to reflect the salary for your specific location.

NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (not-to-exceed 3 years). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term employees are eligible to earn leave and generally have the same benefits as permanent employees including health and life insurance, within-grade increases and Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan coverage. Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4 year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Works with researchers to determine their needs
• Performs analyses of research studies and clinical trial protocols to determine data requirements
• Designs application and data storage systems
• Evaluates clinical trial data reporting requirements and implements required changed, ensuring data integrity and information security assurance
• Conducts hardware and software analysis
• Analyzes clinical trials electronic data capture requirements for screening, randomization, kit assignment, serious adverse events, data collection, and reporting
• Performs mapping analyses needed to determine data assurance and security requirements for data migration
• Designs and develops databases for studies
• Serves as the primary organizational representative for several concurrent projects
• Provides consultation and advice regarding core infrastructure to support, maintain, and improve informatics developments
• Proposes and develops strategic biomedical informatics programs to support better utilization and analysis of VA health, research, and genomic data
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Major duties of the Supervisory Health System Specialist (Corporate Compliance Officer) include:

• Responsible for the initiation and completion of administrative investigations and fact-findings as approved by the Health Care System Director.
• Directing, developing, implementing, and overseeing a multi-disciplinary, health-care-system-wide Compliance Section within the scope of the VHA mandated Privacy Program, Records Information Management Program, Conflict of Interest, and Compliance & Business Integrity (CBI) Program (which includes auditing, monitoring and creation of corrective action plan activities in the areas of coding, documentation, purchased care, exclusionary lists, conflict of interest, accuracy of patient registration, etc.), Controlled Substance Program, VHA policy related to Administrative Investigative Boards, VHA policy related to Access, and VISN equivalent of each of these programs.
• Establish goals and work plans for the Compliance Section and ensures the implementation of the goals and objectives of the section.
• Determine issues, areas, and/or subject matter that create risk for the organization and makes recommendations to executive leadership as to how to avoid or minimize the identified risks.
• Creates written policies and procedures that promote commitment to corporate compliance and address specific areas of risk associated with the Health Care System business, practices, operations, privacy, Records Information Management, investigations, and audits of scheduling and consult practices.
• Creates and maintains local policies governing each of the disciplines within Compliances.
• Creates a formal, written training and education plan for all disciplines with the Compliance Section.
• Monitor the implementation of process improvement projects that are the result of findings made by the Compliance Section.

This position is 100% remote and the US location is negotiable after selection. Work sites outside of the U.S. are prohibited. Your salary will be based upon the locality pay of your work site after selection.

To view the salary range including locality pay for your particular location, please visit this link to the 2024 OPM Salary Tables.

Applications received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiative will also be accepted during open and closing date of this announcement.

IT Specialists (INFOSEC) are a mission critical occupation for HRSA. These positions are responsible for the analysis of system and/or security requirements, the development and implementation of mission critical applications for the agency's Information Technology operations.

As an IT Specialist - Info Sec - Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), you will serve as a technical authority/subject matter expert for HRSA on matters involving the vulnerabilities and threats to HHS' information technology systems.

Your major duties and responsibilities will include:

• Developing/updating system security plans, risk assessments, disaster recovery, and contingency plans, incident response and additional system development life-cycle security documentation.
• Overseeing the security posture for one or more system(s) throughout the entire lifecycle; providing continuous monitoring through scheduled audits, controls testing, and audit reviews, and escalates issues as needed.
• Facilitating remediation/mitigation of weaknesses tracked on the Plan of Action and Milestones to reduce risk and address weaknesses to the system.
• Providing Continuous Monitoring support/guidance by reviewing security documentation, logs, scans and ensuring system backups are performed.
• Conducting security impact assessments when system changes or additions occur to the system, evaluate compliance with IT security requirements, compare them with expected results, and make recommendations.

• Plan and assign work, develop performance standards and evaluate work of subordinates, effect minor disciplinary measures, arrange training needs of employees, interview candidates and recommend promotions, reassignments, or appointments.
• Collaborate in the development of Rural Utilities Service (RUS) policy, plans and procedures for overall program administration.
• Assist in the coordination of the program with respect to loans, grant operations, management and engineering activities.
• Coordinate the flow of work assignments to and from the field as well as internal division coordination.

As a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Lacs Program Manager), you will:

• Independently plan, design, and implement LACS, single sign-on (SSO), & IT security activities, projects, studies, or other types of work related to enterprise application authentication and access management.
• Plan, develop, and oversee vital IT programs for the ACISO-IO including security; determine goals and objectives that need additional emphasis
• Advise the CIO, Deputy CIO, ACIO-IO and other senior OCIO leadership in developing, promulgating, and implementing objectives, principles, policies, procedures, and standards for the Department's logical access control systems program in accordance with Federal security standards and guidelines.
• Provide leadership and planning to develop and implement a disciplined security management strategy which focuses on managing risk, optimizing cost-effectiveness, measuring performance, and ensuring alignment with Treasury's Enterprise Architecture.

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.

As an Information Technology Specialist (INFOSEC), you will:

• Conduct risk assessment programs to identify areas of potential vulnerability in operating systems used throughout the organization.
• Prioritize and schedule areas to be evaluated and develop assessment criteria.
• Analyze findings and develop long-range plans for security systems that minimize risks, mitigate vulnerabilities, prevent security incidents, and insure systems reliability.
• Develop, recommend, and implement approved security contingency plans, incident response plans, and disaster recovery procedures.
  

Data Software Engineering and Security

• Serves as an expert data engineer and consultant, managing and directing multiple highly complex and innovative data engineering and information security projects and initiatives.
• Leverages data, programming, data visualization, and advanced analytic tools, skills, and techniques to support accomplishment of the organizational mission and facilitate the program’s adoption of data-driven information security, cybersecurity, and risk management approaches.
• Utilizes integrated development environment software for data engineering and visualization (e.g., R Studio, Visual Studio Code, Tableau, MicroStrategy), general purpose programming languages for statistical and data analysis (e.g., R, Python, Java, Scala), data structures, algorithms, and SQL (e.g., SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Engineers data automations and processes (e.g., building, testing, and deploying code) using programming languages and other tools to minimize human error and improve data security, reliability, efficiency, and quality for program/customer agency missions, goals, and future planning.
• Uses relevant programming language(s) as well as its packages or libraries for various applications to organize, manipulate, reuse, and/or scale data and for associated secure engineering functions and processes used in program office data operations.

Customer Communications and Reporting

• Provides authoritative advice on data engineering and security methodologies, products and services, and related analyses in discussions with program office managers, supervisors, data consumers, and coworkers.
• Determines appropriate data tools or services with clients or customers to define project scopes, requirements, and deliverables.
• Implements and/or maintains data engineering quality assurance processes.

Data Security Support

• Supports emerging IT and information security initiatives including but not limited to DevSecOps (i.e., development, security, and operations), continuous integration and continuous delivery, and vulnerability management, ensuring new technologies are appropriately accounted for from a data engineering and security perspective.
• Provides technical expertise and advice on the restructuring and/or re-architecting of program data collection storage and approach to ensure maximum visibility into risk while minimizing data collection and storage engineering overhead.

Evaluates and assesses the functionality, capability, and trustworthiness of AI models in compliance with EO 14110. Designs and implements structured and scientifically sound evaluations of AI systems. Evaluates models' existing safeguards in order to evaluate the effectiveness of those safeguards. Carries out red-team operations on AI systems using real world adversarial tactics and techniques to identify failures, vulnerabilities, and potential misuses. Refines and develops new red-teaming and safety-and-security evaluation software, products, workflows, and tools. Continuously adapts and improves techniques of red-teaming and evaluation, including to improve their efficiency and scalability. Collaborates with team members and across teams to develop innovative solutions to AI safety problems. Communicates complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Informs the development of technical guidelines and best practices for AI safety.

• Provide technical expertise to accomplish analysis of options and development of the design for advanced and complex IT systems on projects which typically involve analyses of systems with high visibility or widespread impact within the agency.
• Perform business and systems analysis, analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan development of new systems or modification of existing applications or systems.
• Support integration of new software by developing interfaces with existing systems and databases.
• Design, develop, and modify software systems, using analysis and models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.
• Develop, maintain, and publish internal standard operating procedures relating to such items as data location, system access, system change procedures, and database design.
• Prepare written reports, correspondence, and documents internal and external to the organization to convey plans, policies, status, and results.