Interdisciplinary

Position description

About the Position: Serves as an INTERDISCIPLINARY within the Army Futures Command (AFC) Data and Platform Division located in Austin, Texas. Works on a multi-disciplinary Analytic Support Teams utilizing Agile software development to deliver value to our customers. Our Analytics Support Teams include Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientist working together to deliver capability on top of AFC’s modern cloud-based platforms.

Duties

• Works as a member of a multi-disciplinary Analytic Support Team with a primary focus on the development, deployment, and maintenance of the application front-end.
• Primary duty is to make accurate, reliable, and relevant application layer capabilities that improve and optimize decision-making processes.
• Is an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary Analytic Support Teams (ASTs) that utilize Agile software development to deliver value to our customers.
• Designs, develops, deploys, and oversees implementation of cloud-based software engineering solutions, ensuring adherence to industry best practices for scalability, maintainability, usability, performance, security, and portability.
• Conducts research and validation of rapidly evolving software technologies to make system architecture and design decisions to support scalable services.
• Provides technical expertise on cloud native software engineering techniques and technologies. Serves as a subject matter expert related to software engineer practices.
• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining software systems for collecting, storing, and analyzing data at scale and in the cloud.

Qualifications

Conditions of Employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for Computer Engineer 0854 Series –
A. Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); OR (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure – Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board’s eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.

2. Written Test – Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.

3. Specified academic courses – Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.

4. Related curriculum – Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.

Basic Requirement for 1515 Series – Operations Research Analyst
Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or a degree with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.

Basic Requirement for 1529 Series – Mathematics Statistician
A. Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) that included 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, of which at least 12 semester hours were in mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics.
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: At least 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, including at least 12 hours in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Courses acceptable toward meeting the mathematics course requirement of paragraphs A or B above must have included at least four of the following: differential calculus, integral calculus, advanced calculus, theory of equations, vector analysis, advanced algebra, linear algebra, mathematical logic, differential equations, or any other advanced course in mathematics for which one of these was a prerequisite. The experience offered in combination with educational courses to meet the requirements in paragraph B above should include evidence of statistical work such as (a) sampling; (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying known statistical techniques to data such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.

Basic Requirement for 1530 Series – Statistician
A. Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc.
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.

Basic Requirement for 1550 Series – Computer Scientist
Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in computer science or bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.

Basic Requirement for 1560 Series – Data Scientist
Degree: Bachelor’s degree (or higher degree) in Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.
OR
Combination of education and experience. Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in the above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

Education

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-13 level: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. Leading technical support services in all phases of the Software Engineering and Software Development Life Cycles to include design, programming, installation, testing, operation, and necessary maintenance related to cloud-based software engineering; 2. Lead requirements gathering, selection and execution of Agile development methodology, user story development, stakeholder engagement and negotiation, and implementation and management of Agile status reports, dashboards, and metrics; AND 3. Providing expertise on cloud-based software engineering and architecture solutions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Specialized Experience GS-12 level: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. Providing technical support services in all phases of the Software Engineering and Software Development Life Cycles to include design, programming, installation, testing, operation, and necessary maintenance related to the cloud-based software engineering; 2. Conducting requirements gathering, selection and execution of Agile development methodology, user story development, stakeholder engagement and negotiation, and implementation and management of Agile status reports, dashboards, and metrics; AND 3. Providing input to leaders on cloud-based software engineering and architecture solutions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Specialized Experience GS-11 level: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. Work as a member of a team, participating in technical support services in all phases of cloud-based Software Engineering and Software Development Life Cycles to write code at the request of higher-level developers, conduct troubleshooting and bug fixes on software during the testing stage and help developers adjust previously written code for new purposes; 2. Decomposing project requirements and develop functional user stories that assists senior developers execution of Agile development methodology; AND 3. Providing input and support the development of cloud-based software engineering and architecture solutions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-9).

Specialized Experience GS-9 level: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1. Work as a member of a team, supporting basic Software Engineering and Software Development; 2. Executing basic software development tasks (lines of single-thread code to give specific functions to pieces of software) that contribute to production grade existing software and applications, as well as performing troubleshooting and debugging newly written code to ensure new software is ready to launch; AND 3. Familiarity with Agile software development methodology. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-7).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone–no substitution of education for experience is permitted

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

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