IT SPECIALIST (APPSW)

Full Job Description

Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) mission is to lead the Department of Defense (DoD) in finance and accounting by ensuring the delivery of efficient, exceptional quality pay and financial information.

Resumes for federal government positions need more detailed work descriptions and accomplishments than a typical private sector resume.

Please be sure to clearly describe the full scope of your work experiences in your resume.

Basic Requirement: Applicants must have IT-related experience demonstrating the following competencies appropriate to, or above, the level of this position.

Your resume and work experience should clearly support your ability to meet these competencies and will be evaluated as part of the entire application process.

Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

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.

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.

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

AT THE GS-12: In addition to the Basic Competency Requirements listed above, one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade 11 in the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as Providing development, implementation, operation, and modification of a JAVA application with web and batch components and an Oracle backend; uses knowledge of JAVA, JavaScript, PL/SQL or Oracle; preferred familiarity with the following technologies: Angular, Spring Boot, Azure Cloud, or DevSecOps Pipelines; participating in system requirement reviews and testing; and providing advice and counsel to stakeholders on the capabilities of the application.

AT THE GS-13: In addition to the Basic Competency Requirements listed above, one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade 12 in the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as leading development, implementation, operation, and modification of a JAVA application with web and batch components and an Oracle backend; is an expert in one or more of the languages: JAVA, JavaScript, PL/SQL or Oracle; familiarity with and build solutions with the following technologies: Angular, Spring Boot, Azure Cloud, or DevSecOps Pipelines; leading system requirement reviews and testing; and providing advice and counsel to stakeholders on the capabilities of the application; and serves as advisor to junior team member on technologies.

Volunteer Experience: 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).

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

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.

We may use this announcement to fill additional vacancies within 90 days of the closing date. Major Duties:

• Writing, Debugging, and Maintaining Source Code written in JAVA, PL/SQL, and/or scripting languages.
• Supporting a web and batch application with an Oracle backend in an Azure Cloud environment.
• Demonstrate critical thinking while determining how change requests affect both internal and external processes.
• Performs support for System Development Lifecycle activities, supporting design, development, testing, and implementation using DevSecOps tool suite in compliance with organizational guidelines and federal policies.
• Work with stakeholders to research system issues and changes to develop requirements for system change requests.