IT SPECIALIST (DATAMGT)

IT Specialist (Data Management)This IT SPECIALIST (DATAMGT) position is located in the Data Engineering branch, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:Drives innovations, efficiencies, and new capabilities into Secure Flight and other Transportation Security Administration (TSA) vetting, credentialing and risk assessment systems, and leverages technical and domain expertise to identify and solve complex problems. Conveys answers to questions requiring a comprehensive and sophisticated understanding of relevant security information and data sets, serves as a subject matter expert (SME), and acts as principle technical specialist or as project manager or team leader for large work activities.Provides advice, critical insight, and delivers support to system users, developers, and other stakeholders regarding the technical and operational impacts of proposed system and process changes. Develops and facilitates data-gathering methods, strategic insights from large data sets, presents technical information to technical and nontechnical audiences, and applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge including an understanding of new technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems.Supports operations to ensure, protect, and restore IT systems, services, and capabilities; assists with conducting system security vulnerability assessments; and provides guidance to lower-level staff on difficult technical issues. Assists in monitoring, evaluating, and ensuring data and system compliance with IT security requirements. Performs data analysis and supports data-processing workflows using SQL, Python, R, Java, Scala, or similar languages with industry-leading relational database management systems, such as Oracle, MSSQL, or DB2, and cloud platforms, such as AWS or Azure.Develops and administers data standards, policies, and procedures, and performs code reviews to ensure industry standards and best practices are met. Performs technical reviews of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and knowledge base articles before they are introduced into the production environment.Examines data from multiple disparate sources with the goal of providing security and privacy insight. Designs and implements custom algorithms, workflow processes, and layouts for complex, enterprise-scale data sets used for modeling, data mining, and research purposes.Note: The duties are listed at the full performance level of SV-J band.