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Posted: March 24, 2026 (3 days ago)

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST (APPSW)

Secretary of the Navy Offices (SECNAV)

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Location

Salary

$121,785 - $158,322

per year

Closes

March 28, 2026

GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves designing and developing custom software to support the Navy's audit technology needs, including planning, testing, and fixing programs while following government policies.

A good fit would be someone with strong software development experience who pays close attention to details, communicates well with teams and clients, and enjoys solving technical problems in a structured environment.

It's aimed at mid-level IT professionals ready to contribute to federal projects.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent in federal, private, or public sector
  • Broad knowledge of software development, content management, policies, methods, and techniques
  • Technical skills in software planning, requirements analysis, design, development, architecture, modeling, and testing using methodologies and frameworks
  • Ability to design, develop, and modify software systems, correct programming errors, and produce documentation
  • Strong attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Familiarity with federal, DoD, and DON policies for IT systems

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. 2.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

3.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

4. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

In addition to the above, I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector: - Specialized experience must include a broad knowledge of software development, content management, policies, methods and techniques, as well as comprehensive and intensive knowledge of computer software design concepts and methods.

- Software Developer experience with the technical knowledge and skills to execute software planning, requirements, design, development, architecture, modeling, testing etc.

using software modeling methodologies and frameworks.

- Must be able to design, develop and modify software systems, conduct software development actions including correcting programming errors to ensure correct results are produced, and develop software system programming and testing documentation.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/ OR https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-b/ .

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will design/develop software solutions to support the NAVAUDSVC's technology needs to support the overall audit mission.
  • You will ensure accomplishment of required actions and provide recommendations and solutions throughout all phases of the projects.
  • You will maintain awareness of existing federal, DoD, and DON policy requirements for DOD systems against state-of-the-art technology in assigned areas of responsibility.
  • You will resolve critical issues affecting the configuration of the IT infrastructure and identify weaknesses in performance parameters.
  • You will facilitate the requirements gathering process that results in highly effective solutions that match given requirements.
  • You will routinely meet with stakeholders and senior leadership to obtain pertinent knowledge of the audit process to detail internal processes that are then translated to solutions.
  • You will document code, create/update Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents, create/update technical application resources, and other supporting documentation
  • You will develop guidelines for the formulation of policy and life cycle control of information management software in such areas as operation concepts; functional analysis; interoperability analysis.
  • You will develop requirement definition survivability/vulnerability and new equipment training requirements.
  • You will coordinate classification and system acceptance tests and evaluation of developed software.
  • You will ensure the NAVAUDSVC's continuous monitoring program is administered as required and ensure that all applicable Security Implementation Guides (STIGs) are applied in accordance with policy
  • You will ensure all identified system vulnerabilities are mitigated in accordance with policy. Assists in the annual system review and reaccreditation processes for maintaining an Authority-to-Operate (ATO).

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/24/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/24/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12915752-26-ARB