IT Specialist (Data Management)

About the role

This position is located in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Business Solutions Center (BSC).

Responsibilities

• Develops, deploys, maintains, and administers data pipelines and enterprise data engineering solutions.
• Designs and integrates ETL workflows using tools and languages such as Python, AWS, Azure, and Apache Spark to clean, blend, join, and transform datasets.
• Defines requirements and supports data structure design, development, implementation, and maintenance for FSIS data systems.
• Serves as a point of contact, liaison, facilitator, and SME for requirement gathering, standards enforcement, modernization efforts, and data platform administration.
• Participates in and leads requirements analysis and refinement sessions; resolves requirement conflicts and ensures clarity, completeness, and consistency.
• Led daily Scrum meetings, plans sprints, tracks and reports agile metrics (e.g., sprint velocity), and demonstrates product capabilities to customers and FSIS leadership.
• Maintains subject-matter expertise in enterprise and emerging data management technologies, including data orchestration and data engineering/analytics.
• Ensures data and index integrity; performs data validation across multiple datasets.
• Establishes, implements, and oversees Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for data platform administration and data management technologies.
• Ensures business requirements are documented and tested.
• Serves as liaison between OCIO system developers and business stakeholders for business application requirements.
• Creates, edits, maintains, and reviews SDLC documentation.

Requirements

• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service or equivalent responsibility in the private sector/pay systems, including:
• Experience with the principles and methods to identify, analyze, specify, design, and manage functional data and data lake infrastructure requirements; includes translating data requirements into technical requirements used for logical design or presenting alternative technologies or approaches.
• Experience working on a Cloud data lake and/or Data warehouse.
• Experience with building data pipelines / ETLs using tools and languages such as python and Apache spark.
• Experience leading Scrum and/or Agile meetings and tracking agile metrics.

Benefits

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual are available.

Pay

Salary range: $84,560 - $126,840.

Schedule

Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.