INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPUTER SCIENTIST / DATA SCIENTIST

Duties

• You will develop, implement, and enforce the functional area's data strategy, ensuring alignment with departmental and Federal data management policies.
• You will leads data stewardship activities, including data quality profiling, cleansing, and validation to ensure data is accurate, complete, and timely.
• You will develop and supports data security policies and procedures in coordination with cybersecurity teams.
• You will apply sophisticated analytical techniques, including machine learning, statistical modeling, and natural language processing (NLP), to complex datasets to identify mission critical trends, patterns, and anomalies.
• You will conduct the full analytics lifecycle, from requirements gathering and data exploration to feature engineering, model training, and performance monitoring.
• You will develop and maintain interactive dashboards, geospatial visualizations, and executive-level reports to provide stakeholders with on-demand access to key performance indicators and mission metrics.
• You will support the Chief Data Officer (CDO) regarding analysis and tracking of programming decisions, funding realignments, budget offsets, and COA development associated with commands Data Strategy to help mitigate high-priority capability gaps.
• You will manage project execution by coordinating the efforts of cross-functional team members, stakeholders, and technical personnel to ensure projects are completed on time and within scope.
• You will perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Top Secret SCI security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This is a Cyberspace Workforce position, work role code 653- Data Architect, level Advanced the incumbent is required to obtain and maintain qualifications in DoDM 8140.03 Cyber Workforce Qualification and Department of Navy policies.
• This is a Cyberspace Workforce position, work role code 802-IT Project Manager, level Advanced the incumbent is required to obtain and maintain qualifications in DoDM 8140.03 Cyber Workforce Qualification and Department of Navy policies.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

To qualify for the GS-14
In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Experience leading the development, implementation, and enforcement of enterprise data strategies, standards, and policies; chair data governance working groups; and oversee data stewardship across the full data lifecycle.
• Experience leading complex, high-impact analytical efforts involving large, unstructured, or multi-source datasets;
• Experience independently designing and deploying production and analytical solutions.
• Experience distilling highly complex technical results into actionable strategic insights for senior executive leaders (SES/Flag level), including the development of flag-level briefings, white papers, and decision-support products.
• Experience displaying advanced leadership in managing large-scale, high-visibility programs or multiple concurrent complex projects, including risk management, stakeholder engagement at senior levels, and full accountability for cost, schedule, and performance.

To qualify for the GS-13
In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, 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:

• Experience applying data governance principles, developing data standards and policies, performing data stewardship activities, and contributing to data models and catalogs.
• Professional experience applying advanced analytical methods (machine learning, statistical modeling, predictive analytics) and the full analytics lifecycle using programming languages like Python or R and modern data science libraries.
• Experience demonstrating the ability to translate analytical findings into clear visualizations, dashboards, and briefings for technical and managerial audiences.
• Experience leading projects, including developing project plans, managing resources, and coordinating with cross-functional teams using Agile or traditional project management methodologies.

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/1500/computer-science-series-1550/

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/data-science-series-1560/

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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess

Series: COMPUTER SCIENCTIST, SERIES 1550
Basic Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's 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. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.

Series: DATA SCIENCTIST, SERIES 1560
Basic Requirements:

Degree: 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 paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED

Additional information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at:

ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link:

Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed.

If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.