Data Scientist

Summary

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the Fort Huachuca, AZ and serves as an Data Scientist .

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Duties

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• Applies advanced data science, statistical, mathematical, and computational theories, methods, and practices to analyze highly complex problems affect cyber.
• Adapts analytical models and techniques (i.e. machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, and visualization) to produce reliable and defensible analytic results for decision-making.
• Serves as expert leading highly complex analytical projects across unclassified and classified environments within tactical and strategic IT settings
• Evaluates multi-disciplinary issues with network systems, big data platforms, and security to assess network performance, control, resilience, and mission impact supporting the mission
• Analyzes advanced research techniques and science-based analytical methods to provide evaluation and briefings for leadership
• Transforms data from network sensors, enterprise systems, operational repositories and other authorized sources into actionable information for decision-support products.
• Conducts ongoing evaluation and monitoring of decision-support systems, analytical models, and statistical methods to assess mission performance.
• Recommends strategies for data collection, integration, retention, governance, access, and quality management.
• Applies business metric, performance measures, and analytical framework to identify, assess, validate, and monitor opportunities for improvement and performance.
• Coordinates with data owners to ensure the data used in analytic efforts complies with applicable legal, regulatory, privacy , record management, and information Security requirements.
• Independently determines resource requirements for assigned projects, and reviews technical report, summaries and briefs for senior leadership.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be capable of passing periodic Counter-Intelligence Polygraph (CI Poly) examinations with No Deception Indicated (NDI).
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station up to 15% of the time
• Must be able to obtain and maintain access to NSA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) accredited facilities and networks. [MilitaryAffairs Desk Officer (MADO) Security In-Processing (SIP) process.]
• This position is designated Tier 5, Special Sensitive, High Risk and the incumbent is required to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance Level with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access as a condition of employment.
• This is a DoD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Appointment to this position does not confer competitive status.
• This is a drug testing designated position (TDP) under the Department of the Army Drug-Free Federal Workplace Program in accordance with AR 600-85.
• Signing of a DA Form 5019 (Condition of Employment for Certain Civilian Positions Identified as
  Critical under the Department of the Army Drug-Free Federal Workplace Program) acknowledging periodic random drug testing
• requirements is mandatory prior to being placed into this position. Those individuals not currently occupying a TDP position must successfully complete a pre-appointment drug test prior to being placed into this position and periodically thereafter.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a three year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in DoDI 1400.25 V3005,
• Cyber Excepted Service, Employment and Placement. While serving a probationary period the incumbent can be terminated with limited appeal rights.

Qualifications

CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT. YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

• Current Civilian Employees of the Command

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement". If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

GG-11 and GG-12

This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Full Performance Work Level Within the CES Occupational Structures.

GG-13

This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Senior Work Level Within the CES Occupational Structure.

In order to qualify, you must meet the Education and/or 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.

Basic Requirement for Data Scientist:

A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position.

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B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

GG-11 Qualifying Experience:

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by 1. Collaborating with data owners and stakeholders to ensure data used in analytic efforts comply with legal, regulatory, and security requirement. 2. Extracted raw operational dataset using Python/SQL to prepare data for routine statistical analysis and reports. 3. Researching standard machine learning framework to well-defined problems in support of information technology and network-related mission. 4. Assisted in predictive model and algorithms for the command.

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Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Engineering or Computer Science.

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Combination of Education and Experience : A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

GG-12 Qualifying Experience:

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by 1. Applying data science and statistical methods to analyze multi-disciplinary cyber and enterprise systems problems. 2. Assisting in developing machine learning and data mining models to identify trends form the command. 3. Implementing analytics and research techniques for information system and network mission capabilities. 4. Assisting in the design, testing and implementation of basic predictive models and algorithms.

GG-13 Qualifying Experience:

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one years of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be demonstrated by 1. Applying advance data science, mathematical, and computational theories, methods, and practices to analyze highly complex problems affecting cyber. 2. Adapts analytical models and techniques (i.e. machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, and visualization) to produce reliable and defensible analytic results for decision-making. 3. Evaluating multi-disciplinary issues within network systems, big data platforms, and security to assess network performance, control, resilience, and mission impact. 4. Developing machine learning and data mining models (i.e. descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytic) to identify trends/risk for command planning and budget requirements.

Education

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. For further information, visit:

Additional information

If you are a current federal career/career-conditional employee, you will be placed on an excepted appointment.

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 3 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret with SCI security clearance.
• Incumbent (or Selectee) is required to satisfactorily complete the appropriate training and obtain the required certification/recertification for this position as outlined in DoDM 8140.03 Cyberspace Workforce Qualification and Management Program dated 15 February 2023.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a(n) Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (M&S) Career Program position aligned under the Department of Army Career Management Directorate.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more information.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• A Permanent Change of Station (PCS) may be authorized if determined to be in the Governments interest.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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