IT Specialist (APPSW), 12663827

This job will close when we have received 100 applications which may be sooner than the closing date.

Duties

• Serves as a Software Development Subject Matter Expert (SME) on assigned projects, working groups, and integrated product teams (IPTs) to provide senior technical direction, guidance and leadership for orchestrating the development, integration, maintenance, and operations of DLA systems.
• Responsible for analyzing critical system requirements in response to business requirements, risks, and costs.
• Evaluating, selecting, verifying, and validating system software environments.
• Evaluating, selecting, and installing compilers, assemblers, and utilities; and integrating hardware and software components within the systems environment.
• Practice agile methodologies throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Lead and develop pilots, prototypes, and minimum viable products to demonstrate products and solutions for customers.
• Serve as a subject matter expert through consulting with customers to determine requirements, explore solutions, and deliver high business impact solutions in an iterative, agile process.
• Drive agency-wide and multi-agency IT modernization initiatives in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Application Program Interface (API) and API Gateways.
• Develops technical acquisition strategies to provide the best value for the customer and to sustain modernization projects.
• Develop and promote innovation adoption practices, through partner work, support of a community of practice, learning and development, and reference materials.
• Directs technical implementation of assigned project segments providing expert guidance on the rapid implementation and development of Enterprise business capability utilizing Commercial Off -The- Shelf (COTS)...
• (cont.) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) packages.
• Performs continuing analysis and feasibility evaluations of software/hardware proposals, trends and concepts in terms of validity in user environments, impact on invested operating systems and user organization  implications regarding adequacy of hardware facilities, cost-effectiveness, trade-offs, etc.
• Serve as a technical liaison between the stakeholders and the project teams, delivering feedback to the team, enabling them to make necessary changes to product performance or presentations.
• Analyze applications, systems, evaluate alternatives and design and document technical solutions, and potential problems with leveraging cloud capabilities.
• Analyze customer experience approaches (e.g. strategies, roadmaps, playbooks) that represent best practices in the federal government.
• May perform as Contracting Office Technical Representative (COTR) and expert in the knowledge and procedures necessary for coordinating and evaluating timelines associated with acquisition process of IT services, software licensing sole source justifications, and development of technical evaluation factors in support of assigned programs/projects outsourced to commercial activities