IT Specialist

**Duties**:
Incumbent’s responsibilities are diverse and spans multiple domains critical to the effective and efficient achievement of customer’s goals. The duties include:
**Project/Program Management**:

- Oversee and manage complex IT, cybersecurity, and data-related projects across all phases of the Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC), including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Ensure project success by managing scope, budget, risks, and schedules, with a focus on initiatives such as systems upgrades, IT security programs, and data cataloging.
- Lead matrixed project teams, ensuring alignment with FAA Cybersecurity policies, Data Strategy objectives, and enterprise goals.
- Conduct analytical studies, cost-benefit analyses, and research to support IT system acquisition, deployment, and optimization.

**Cybersecurity and Data Governance**:

- Partner with the AIT directorates, particularly the Information Security & Privacy Service (AIS) and Chief Data Office (ADO), to implement and maintain frameworks for securing and optimizing critical data assets.
- Promote data accuracy, consistency, and compliance while fostering a culture that recognizes data as a valuable corporate asset.
- Support data onboarding by equipping teams with security and data tools and methodologies to transform raw data into actionable insights.

**Operational Efficiency and Policy Compliance**:

- Develop, recommend, and implement solutions to complex organizational challenges to enhance operational efficiency.
- Create and implement strategies for risk mitigation, contingency planning, and compliance for IT systems.
- Advocate for FAA policies, representing the organization in internal and external advisory roles.

**Leadership and Collaboration**:

- Mentor and guide less-experienced professionals to cultivate a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
- Lead meetings and briefings for diverse audiences including working teams, managers, directors, and executives.
- Serve as the principal point of contact for assigned projects/products, facilitating coordination across FAA Lines of Lines of Business and Staff Offices.

**Additional duties may be assigned as required.**

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.

**Qualifications**:
**_For additional information please view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for IT Specialist, please visit:_**

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.

You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program, and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities, you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment section. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement.

Selection may be made from this announcement or from ACT-AIT-25-AEM001-93485.

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**Additional information**:
We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
A one-year probationary period may be required.

The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family.

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