Chief Data Officer, (NH-XXXX-04)

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Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Job Summary

  • This position is within the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center (RTC) Advanced Technology Office (ATO).  RTC participates in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project, AcqDemo, among other features. AcqDemo replaces GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands.

    The NH-04 band is equal to the GS-14 step 1 through GS-15 step 10. However, this position is subject to the NH-04, Non-Supervisory Professional/Evaluator/Tester Analyst control point of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Control Point Policy.

Job Responsibilities

  • Determines scope of projects, develops a plan of action and defines specific objectives for organization.
  • Serves as the Chief Data Officer and Senior Project Engineer for data management in assigned organization, pioneering technical development of leading-edge testing for the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center (RTC).
  • Responsible for the development of the overarching organizational concept plan IAW with the ATEC HQ CDO concept plan for enterprise data management and knowledge management.
  • Project manager for the major instrumentation and information management initiatives, responsible for ensuring that the systems operate as advertised once established; personnel will be available to operate, maintain, upgrade, modify and change the system specific to T&E requirements. 
  • Oversees preparation of design specifications end contract documents, coordination of solicitations with Contracting, and responds to technical questions from prospective bidders.
  • Develops and presents briefings to senior Command and Army leadership on highly complex and controversial data management.
  • Analyzes and develops polices on Test and Evaluation (T&E) data.
  • Serves as a technical expert and advisor to senior leaders and subordinate organizations, evaluating and providing strategic direction for resolution of mission-critical data management problems, policies, and procedures.
  • Manages data collection and processing/reduction; data mining and analysis; data storage locations/capacity; data retention policy; data access permissions and sharing; data and metadata standards; data integration and interoperability; and data scientist workforce planning, training, and requirements.
  • Develops resolutions to diverse viewpoints and other controversial issues to ensure wider data sharing within the Army.
  • Manages resources to successfully accomplish the organization's missions, applying sound business acumen to identify opportunities to reduce cost and effort associated with managing and deriving business intelligence from ATECs data assets.
  • Leads and executes extensive analyses of large and complex data sets applying a variety of engineering, scientific, mathematical and statistical theories, principles, concepts and techniques, analytic software tools, and or/statistical programming languages.
  • Manages complete research and development programs employing statistical methodologies to fuse data sources, which are derived from requirements and systems that will range from weapons and intelligence information systems.
  • Responsible for design, development, and fielding of a broad-based knowledge system that incorporates data acquisition, data reduction, data-basing, and data mining for the purpose of supporting the acquisition system, the logistics operations, and warfighter.

Job Qualification

This announcement uses the Direct Hiring Authority (DHA) for AcqDemo Business and Technical Management Career Path (NH) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
 

Education:

Basic Requirement for Engineering Positions:
A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree(or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); OR (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials(stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
B. Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
 

COMPUTER SCIENTIST QUALIFICATIONS:

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.

FOREIGN EDUCATION:

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.


DATA SCIENCE QUALIFICATIONS:

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.

Specialized Experience

  • In addition to meeting ONE of the Basic Requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

  • To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (NH-03/GS-13).

  • 1) Advise on new and emerging software engineering and software technology.

    2) Develop policy and implement them with the organization to better meet mission objectives.

    3) Participate in the planning of Program Objectives Memorandum (POM) to meet mission requirements. 

    Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience and specialized experience--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED. You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

  • Data Management

  • Database Administration

  • Database Management Systems

  • Information Technology Architecture

  • Infrastructure Design

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation. If, after reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates. If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

Required Documents:
Your complete application includes your resume and other documents which prove your qualifications and eligibility to apply.
If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package, and you will not be considered any further.


1. Your resume: Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.
For qualifications determinations, your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.


2.  Other supporting documents: Cover letter, optional

This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience. If you meet this requirement based on education, you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package, or you will be rated ineligible.

NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.

Conditions of Employment

  1. This announcement uses the Business & Technical Management Career Path (NH) direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
  2. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
  3. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
  4. A one-year trial/probationary period may be required. 
  5. Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
  6. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from the Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
  7. This is a Career Field (CP) 16 - Engineers & Scientists (Non-Construction) position. 
  8. This position requires the incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance. 
  9. Practitioner Career Level Certification must be met within 5 years.
  10. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
  11. Up to 25 percent travel may be required. 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20% Travel

QUESTIONS or issues please send us a message with the vacancy announcement URL, position title, and location to:

usarmy.redstone.atec.mbx.rtc-recruiting@army.mil