IT SPECIALIST (PLCYPLN)

Summary

Ready to drive innovation in national security? Join the DCSA as an IT Product Owner & Scrum Master. Champion agile teams building mission-critical software, modernize legacy platforms into AWS cloud solutions, and turn complex mission needs into powerful technical capabilities. Make a direct impact safeguarding our nation's trusted workforce and critical technologies. For more information visit www.dcsa.mil

Duties

This position may be filled at either GG-11 or GG-12 grade level, please indicate the grade for which you want to be considered. Incumbent may be advanced non-competitively to the established target grade upon meeting developmental benchmarks, performance requirements, and other requirements, as applicable established for the career program or specifically for the incumbent. As a IT SPECIALIST (PLCYPLN) you will be responsible for the following duties: GG-11 Designs software utilizing the software life cycle process, develops, deploys, updates, maintains, and tests software using methodologies and tools, designs to leverage software reusability and establishes and utilizes software engineering metrics. Prioritizes projects /tasks for contractors and facilitates project initiations and approval processes, change management and deployment activities. Oversees development activities of contractors and establishes and enforces DoD policy and standards and security principles to ensure quality and integrity of delivered products according to scope, cost and schedule. Oversees complex inter-agency migration(s) of application initiatives having agency and enterprise impact. Provides technology roadmaps for consistent implementation and migration of legacy applications to new technology tools and cloud solutions. Maintains relationship with business partners and is a liaison between cross functional IT teams and customers to understand and meet their expectations. GG-12 Leads CI/CD pipeline optimization to automate deployments and enforce reusability. Evaluates performance against engineering metrics to cut technical debt and ensure scalable system architecture across the Acquisition and Technology portfolio. Serves as Government PO and Scrum Master, translating agency needs into backlogs and sprints. Exercises independent authority over sprint release readiness, change control, and deployment schedules to meet critical NBIS delivery milestones. Applies FAR guidelines to monitor contractors and enforce acceptance criteria. Enforces rigorous DoW information security, information assurance policies, and national regulations to conduct risk audits and safeguard system integrity. Coordinates cross-boundary data and system integration across DCSA and DoW. Resolves complex technical incompatibilities and negotiates formal interface agreements to maintain operational readiness during enterprise-wide transitions. Conducts AWS cloud and serverless tradeoff analyses to optimize performance, cost, and security. Establishes multi-year modernization roadmaps to decommission legacy tools and accelerate scalable, enterprise cloud capability adoption. Represents the Acquisition & Technology portfolio as technical authority with senior leaders and industry. Defends controversial technical approaches, negotiates conflicting priorities, and achieves consensus on high-impact enterprise solutions. The Office Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security established a Targeted Local Market Supplement (TLMS) for certain Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Cyber positions within the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System. Eligibility for the TLMS is based on cyber work roles within certain occupational series and on the work performed. This vacancy is designated as a STEM and/or Cyber position and pay for the incumbent will be based on the STEM and Cyber Pay Table.

Qualifications

The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/competency-based-policy/general-schedule/2200/2210-competency-based-policy/competency-based-qualification-standard/ for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 10/19/2026 Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position. For the GG-11 You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade GS/GG-09 in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility. Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience. Specialized experience for this position includes: Utilizing Information Technology planning, policy and information assurance standards to plan, implement and communicate standard technical ideas, programs and processes effectively to customers, technical personnel, management and senior leadership. Applying project management principles, processes, procedures, planning and activity development using Agile Methodologies and the SCRUM process. Architecting and designing within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute environment, including network design and supporting migration legacy applications. Utilizing lifecycle management concepts to plan, develop, implement, operate and maintain Information Technology systems including supporting Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and deployment automation. Conducting tradeoff analysis between different deployment techniques for cloud-based projects, including skill with server-less service deployment. For the GG-12 You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade GS/GG-11 in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility. Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience. Specialized experience for this position includes: Utilizing Information Technology planning, policy and information assurance standards to plan, implement and communicate complex technical ideas, programs and processes effectively to customers, technical personnel, management and senior leadership. Conducting system audits using principles, methods, and techniques of Information Technology assessments, planning, management, monitoring and evaluation so that baseline assessments, contingency planning and disaster recovery are accomplished. Managing complex projects /tasks for contractors and facilitates project initiations and approval processes, change management and deployment activities while coordinating with diverse stakeholder groups. Applying Agile methodologies to manage product backlog and convert user requirements into technical specifications while driving complex project planning, processes, and activity development as a Scrum Master and Product Owner. Implementing technology roadmaps and migration of legacy applications to new technology tools and cloud solutions (e.g., AWS) while coordinating complex, multi-agency migrations with enterprise-level impact. Specifically you will be evaluated on the following competencies: Requirements Analysis- Knowledge of the principles and method