Total 12 job vacancies by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology

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.

Major Duties:

• Ensure that the organizations strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.
• Coach the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods and techniques, provide advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assist the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution.
• Lead the team in: identifying, distributing and balancing workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established work flow, skill level and/or specialization; making adjustments to complete the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks; and ensuring that each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.
• Serve as coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and building activities among team members.
• Advises and assists OIT managers, supervisors and employees on Federal, VA, and OIT HR regulatory requirements, policies, processes and procedures.
• Works directly with a variety of OIT staff of all levels as necessary to obtain required information; ensure compliance with HR principles, policies and requirements; and provide guidance and/or assistance as needed in the development of documentation to support requests or actions.
• Resolves conflicts or issues between or with staff members on the team; brings significant, systemic, or recurring conflicts or issues to the supervisor's attention. Recommends supervisory intervention and/or disciplinary action immediately if the action of a team member rises to a level where such is warranted.

OIT Mission: The mission of the Office of Information and Technology (OIT) is to collaborate with our business partners to create the best experience for all Veterans.

OIT Vision: To become a world-class organization that provides a seamless, unified Veteran experience through the delivery of state-of-the-art technology.

Major Duties:

• Provides authoritative advice and guidance and serves as Cyber Security Analyst to provide expert technical, operational, analytical and programmatic guidance to internal and external senior managers.
• Coordinates and leads the implementation of security programs to anticipate, assess, and minimize system vulnerabilities.
• Resolve integration issues related to the implementation of new systems within existing infrastructure.
• Primary information security subject matter expert for coordination, integration, and implementation of new technology.
• Analyze feasibility studies, proposals, and in-depth analyses of current requirements and forecast trends and future needs.
• Advise system designers and system administrators as to the consistency of proposed IT security strategies with regulatory and policy directives.
• Ensure that the implemented security safeguards are adequate to assure the integrity, availability and confidentiality of the information being processed, transmitted or stored consistent with the level of sensitivity of that information.
• Provide calculated judgments of risk and protection levels, identify responsible organizational action entities, and recommend changes to operate within stipulated levels of information security.
• Ensures that all managers under their supervision comply with applicable Federal Laws and agency regulations regarding Equal Employment Opportunity, Reasonable Accommodations, Alternate Dispute Resolution, and applicable Union contracts.
• Oversees the Litigation Hold office and supervises assigned staff.

Major Duties:

• Review and audit Personnel Action Requests (PARs) to ensure the accuracy of the nature of action, authority code, PD number, position descriptions, remarks, promotions, transfers, special salary determinations, and corrections to employee records.
• Perform administrative, audit and analytical oversight functions for human resources programs and functions related to recruitment and placement, personnel security, position management, performance management, and HR automation systems.
• Develop training tools and plans and assist in implementing approved recommendations to correct deficiencies, establish and modify processes to meet organizational goals, objectives and changing needs.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with leadership, management, and staff to further issue guidance to clarify conflicting guidance or alleviate other potential or existing problems.
• Apply Human Resources concepts, principles, and practices related to identifying, altering, and selecting individuals and placing them into positions to address changing organizational needs.
• Analyze and prepare occupational information to facilitate personnel, administration, and management HR functions of the organization.

This is a bargaining unit position.

The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 100 applications. The first 100 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (100 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 100 in the order they applied.

Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed.

This position is primarily aligned to the following NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework work roles:

• 802 - IT Project Manager

This is a bargaining unit position.

The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 50 applications. The first 50 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (50 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 50 in the order they applied.

Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed.

This position is primarily aligned to the following NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework work roles:

• 641 - System Requirements Planner
• 651 - Enterprise Architect

The incumbent will perform a wide variety of high-level Senior Programmer/Software Architect/Software Developer duties connected with the initiation, management, coordination, development, systems integration, and execution of critical software application development activities. The incumbent assists and advises senior management with efforts to ensure adherence to OIT/SPM development processes, change and configuration management processes, development resource allocation, software tools selection and schedule commitments.

The incumbent initiates, leads, performs and coordinates activities that include ensuring successful development of approved software applications, leading development and systems integration efforts of enterprise application software, infrastructure or operating system software in support of mission critical and routine enterprise functions (e.g. using current methodologies such as web services, creating web service wrappers for legacy systems, using Object Oriented program languages and modeling artifacts), develops leading edge strategies, standards and policies for developing advanced computer software applications, The incumbent leads the maintenance and testing of legacy software ensuring that enterprise solutions work with production software, ensuring that standards, protocols, methods and techniques are included as part of the development unit testing of the software solutions. Validates and leads documentation efforts of application software within the enterprise, preparing and validating technical/programming specifications as required. Collects, validates, and provides technical input and support for the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) working on OIT/SPM contracts, and liaises across VA business lines for consolidated efforts and for existing software development and integration efforts. They will also recommend, and modify technical strategies to reflect changes in project scope and objectives, as well as recommending incorporation of new software strategies and methods for OIT/SPM (e.g. mobile computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), analytics in Big Data)

The incumbent is expected to have in-depth experience leading requirements planning, procurement, design, modification, integration, testing, and deployment of IT systems; experience providing oversight for the development of IT systems test strategies, plans, and scenarios and working with internal and external stakeholders, as well as expertise in VA and industry IT security concepts, policies, standards, and methods in order to effectively integrate with other systems, and protect Veteran data against vulnerabilities.

The incumbent must have a mastery of one or more of the following programming languages (M, Java, Delphi, C++, C#, Objective C, HTML5, COBOL, Oracle, Visual Basic .NET and integrated development environments (IDE) such as Eclipse, etc.) in order to lead design and code reviews, make recommendations to the Technical Reference Model (TRM) group regarding tools and standards, and experience in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Accounting, Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), and Informatica is mandatory.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm (40 Hours)
Compressed/Flexible: Authorized
Remote: Yes
Virtual: Yes
Telework: No
Position Description Title/PD#: It Specialist (APPSW))/PD18100A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station: Not Authorized
Physical Requirements: The work is largely sedentary. May be required to work under stressful conditions, such as long hours, to complete sensitive and urgent work assignments.
Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level
This is not a Bargaining Unit Position.

The incumbent uses their expertise to spearheads efforts in the use of modem technology development and management approaches through the application of intensive/expert and diversified knowledge of advanced digital delivery practices, theories and concepts as well as drawing heavily upon best practices from the consumer internet industry such as human-centered design, DevOps, and agile development processes. The incumbent of this position is a program expert in establishing, managing, leading, administering, developing, and delivering digital services program activities. The incumbent uses their deep understanding of the characteristics of successful digital services and how they are built both inside and outside government, including user-centered design and development practices to lead major initiatives, provide consultation on systems or policy proposals, expanding adoption of modem technology and approaches to enable rapid execution against agency missions in improving the Veteran digital experience, and/or provide technical, policy, and programmatic guidance to VA leaders at the most senior level.

Incumbent conceptualizes new methods, principles, and concepts to resolve broad systemic programmatic problems to deliver better government services to the American people through technology and design. The incumbent will lead the transformation of critical services using best practices and new approaches to support government modernization efforts. These problems typically exist within the agency or are shared among agencies, and the new concepts and methods have broad impact within and possibly beyond the agency. Such concept development and methods implementation may require new legislation and considerable resources. Incumbent develops operational processes and IT functional requirements and ensures technical and functional staffs understand each other resulting in effective communication of requirements and seamless workflow.

Incumbent conceives, plans, and manages broad, emerging, and/or critical large-scale agency programs, serves as an expert throughout the agency on major nation-wide/government-wide program issues of Congressional interest, involving unprecedented factual concerns, requiring balancing of conflicting interests of extreme intensity involving future program and product application of the program's product or results, or because the extreme magnitude of the program ultimately affects the Nation's economy or foreign economies. The incumbent has broad agency-wide program responsibility, and routinely handles large-scale and demanding issues.

• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.
• Gather feedback on customer satisfaction and internal service performance to foster continual improvement.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders. Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
• Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system lifecycle support plans, concept of operations,operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
• Write detailed functional specifications that document the architecture development process.
• Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
• Plan implementation strategy to ensure that enterprise components can be integrated and aligned. Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.
• Consult with customers to evaluate functional requirements.
• Coordinate with systems architects and developers, as needed, to provide oversight in the development of design solutions.
• Define project scope and objectives based on customer requirements.
• Oversee and make recommendations regarding configuration management.
• Perform needs analysis to determine opportunities for new and improved business process solutions.
• Prepare use cases to justify the need for specific information technology (IT) solutions.
• Develop methods to monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts.
• Resolve conflicts in laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures.
• Ensure that all acquisitions, procurements, and outsourcing efforts address information security requirements consistent with organization goals.
• Manage the internal relationship with information technology (IT) process owners supporting the service, assisting with the definition and agreement of Operating Level Agreements (OLAs).

Major Duties:

• • Advises assigned Executive Director, associated Deputy Executive Director, and senior management by providing technical advice, oversight, and direction of multiple national IT programs.
  • Responsible for the success of the OIT mission through strategic collaboration across the organization involving technical requirements, identifying areas of efficiency, and implementing initiatives OIT wide.
  • Providers expert level technical policy, planning guidance, and technical direction and oversight to the Districts and offices executing IT software and automation, information assurance, information security, technology investments and initiatives.
  • Serves as the senior technical authority for all cross-cutting initiatives and portfolio management efforts and aligns the organization's technical vision with its business strategy and integrating technologies.
  • Collaborates with the assigned Executive Director to develop, maintain, and oversee execution of a technology plan that supports organizational needs while providing direction in all technology-related issues.

OIT Mission: The mission of the Office of Information and Technology (OIT) is to collaborate with our business partners to create the best experience for all Veterans.

OIT Vision: To become a world-class organization that provides a seamless, unified Veteran experience through the delivery of state-of-the-art technology.

Major Duties:

• Oversees the daily operation of the unit, ensures that agency policies and priorities are being followed.
• Develops performance standards; and evaluates work performance of subordinates.
• Approves expenses comparable to within-grade increases, extensive overtime and employee travel.
• Identifies requirements, plans for, organizes, and distributes authorized personnel resources.
• Hears and resolves minor complaints from employees.
• Interviews candidates for positions in the unit.
• Identifies and provides training needs.
• Recommends awards or bonuses for nonsupervisory personnel and changes in position classification.
• Prepares and presents justification for organization structure, manpower, and personnel requirements.
• Ensures development of organizational work plans, short and long range schedules, priorities, work assignments and position structures to effectively, efficiently, and economically carry out the work of the organization.

Major Duties:
The Area Manager directs a staff of Information Technology professionals responsible for the execution of this program across multiple VA facilities and customer business lines encompassing a major metropolitan area, a State, or a small region of several States which significantly impact a wide range of VA activities, other agencies, or operations of outside interest such as University affiliates, and Veterans Service Organizations. This is a non-bargaining unit eligible position.

• Oversee the day-to-day operations, services, maintenance and security for all customers within their immediate geographic area.
• Directly responsible for support services and delivery for all VA customers (regardless of VA business line) within their immediate area and collaborates closely with partners in the Infrastructure Operations and Command Center Operations divisions to deliver full service and total ticket management for area VA IT end users.
• Provide management, supervision and services for Area Network Operations, Operations Support, Systems Integration, and Systems Design.
• Direct, review and participate in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of automated information systems and technical architectures in compliance with Congressional, VA, OI&T, and EUO directives.
• Plan, direct, and provide technical guidance to improve the Area Information Systems program and IT computing environment.
• Develop long range program goals and objectives, assign projects to subordinates and monitor operations to reach objectives.
• Evaluate facility proposals in the arena of operating systems environments, telecommunications, system engineering, budgeting, and systems architecture.
• Aligns EUO OIT Capital Assessment Planning (CAP) with the Mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Support area-wide leadership, planning, and management of information technology strategy, development, and implementation.
• Ensure contracts, TAC procurements, Request for Proposals (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), and Request for Quotes (RFQ) are created, funded, tracked, and closed for EUO District Area.
• Develop & monitor GRC Assessments, Security Control Assessments (SCA), OIG FISMA/FISCAM Audits that protects the NIST confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of the organization's information, information systems, and networks in accordance with policies, procedures and control techniques, and agency and federal regulations.
• Support delegated authority for all local IT service delivery within their area, including prioritization of End User Operations work.
• Act as an advocate for IT requirements with VA Lines of Business (VHA, VBA, NCA, etc.) and District IT management to ensure IT services provided at the facilities in the area are acceptable to the business.