Information Technology Specialist (Applications Software)

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: BASIC REQUIREMENT Applicants must have Information Technology related experience demonstrating each of the following four competencies: 1) Attention to Detail, 2) Customer Service, 3) Oral Communication, and 4) Problem Solving. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience GS-14 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Leading or coordinating IT projects, application-related efforts, operational initiatives, or system-related activities that affect multiple users, teams, programs, or business processes. Applying advanced IT principles, concepts, methods, and practices to evaluate requirements; resolve technical issues; guide system, application, or code testing and configuration decisions; and ensure technical documentation and federal cybersecurity, privacy, or regulatory requirements are addressed. Engaging customers, stakeholders, users, product or business owners, and technical teams to define business or technical requirements, communicate technical impacts, and guide delivery of secure, reliable, scalable IT solutions. Evaluating system, service, or application performance, availability, reliability, security controls, usability, and operational effectiveness; identifying risks, issues, defects, or gaps; and leading corrective actions or improvement efforts. Analyzing competing technical approaches and providing authoritative recommendations to management, stakeholders, or IT specialists on the selection, design, configuration, implementation, or improvement of IT solutions with organizational impact.Experience leading teams that design and develop agency-wide applications which included review and approval of technical requirements for projects; developing project plans; providing guidance to team members and serving as primary liaison between customers and vendors and IT management throughout the development process. Leading, coordinating, or providing technical direction for the modernization, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, maintenance, or enhancement of enterprise applications and related technology platforms. Guiding technical decisions involving APIs, web services, microservices, application integrations, databases, automated testing strategies, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, containerized or cloud-based architectures, observability, performance monitoring, code quality, vulnerability remediation, and secure software development practices. Evaluating, guiding, or supporting the appropriate use of modern software engineering tools, including approved AI-assisted development tools where appropriate, to improve software delivery, documentation, testing, code quality, analysis, or maintainability while ensuring alignment with federal cybersecurity, privacy, accessibility, records management, and organizational policy requirements. Advising management and stakeholders on technical strategy, modernization opportunities, risk mitigation, architecture tradeoffs, operational resilience, scalability, and long-term maintainability of agency-wide applications. AND MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-5 grade level, you must have served at least o