18F - Cloud Consulting Technical Lead

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18F is hiring for GS-15 - Cloud Consulting Technical Lead. This page contains information related to the role as well as a link to submit your application. Check out Join TTS Hiring Process to learn more about the application process.

Location: Washington, DC; Boston, MA (virtual); Denver, CO (virtual)

Salary Range: The base salary range for this position is: GS-15 Step 1 - $105,123 to GS-15 Step 10 $136,659

Please note the maximum salary available for the GS pay system is $166,500

The base salary range does not include any adjustment for locality. Your locality is most likely going to be determined by where you live since most of our positions are remote. If the position isn’t remote, then your locality will be determined by the location of the office where the position is based.

You can find more information about this in the compensation and benefits section on our site.

For specific details on locality pay, please visit OPM’s Salaries & Wages page or for a salary calculator OPM’s 2019 General Schedule (GS) Salary Calculator.

Who May Apply: All United States citizens and nationals (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands) and applicants must not be GSA employees or contractors

Role Summary:

Cloud Consulting Technical Lead - GS-15

cloud.gov, a product team within 18F, is looking for a talented cloud consulting technical lead to help us deliver better digital services to the public. As a cloud consulting technical lead at 18F, you’ll work closely with a federal agency partner team (as well as teammates from 18F and cloud.gov) to support ambitious cloud migration projects that transform how agencies deliver their missions. You’ll need to understand the partner team’s needs and desires, and work with them (as well as vendor partners) to implement solutions.

Cloud consulting technical leads on our team are:

Experienced in leading cloud migration projects, including organizational strategy and change management.
Interested in building systems and processes that meet federal security compliance requirements in effective and modern ways.
Capable of building and migrating apps with a cloud native mindset.
Experienced working in cloud computing platforms (e.g., Cloud Foundry) and leveraging cloud computing infrastructure (e.g., Amazon Web Services).

Your first project will be consulting on-site with the United States Air Force.

Key Objectives

Key objective #1: Help federal agencies develop and implement cloud migration plans

Partner with federal agencies to build, manage, and grow their cloud adoption and migration development efforts
Provide engineering leadership and mentoring via technology evaluations and architectural decisions
Influence project planning and design using usability research, analytics, and other metrics
Analyze systems, identify potential problems with migration activities, and design and document solutions
Assist agency partners through the change management process of cloud adoption, and in particular help them work through staffing planning challenges

Key objective #2: Contribute high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code across multiple projects, using best practices for modern software development

Lead engineering efforts in building new and migrating existing applications to a cloud computing environment, leveraging infrastructure as code where applicable for any application configuration
Deliver code that’s easy to deploy, update, and monitor by ensuring that the necessary tooling is present early in the project development cycle, or by introducing tooling into an existing project, as needed
Participate in code review, architecture discussions, and feature prioritization
Take pride of ownership in all projects you touch; leave code better than you found it
Contribute to documentation, tests, style fixes, accessibility, performance, security, and more

Practice and enthusiastically share agile methodologies throughout all stages of the project lifecycle, including iterative development and continuous improvement
Inspire honesty and integrity through open communication and liberal knowledge sharing across multi-disciplinary teams
Support teammates and partners in learning new skills and applying new methods for project management
Make and use prototypes and hands-on demonstrations as tools to help teach modern technology practices

Key objective #4: In conjunction with team leadership, help establish and implement an organizational vision

Develop new insights into situations and question conventional approaches
Develop, implement, and drive technical strategy in engineering-specific and organization-wide contexts
Keep up-to-date on policies and trends that affect the organization and shape stakeholders’ views
Adapt to change and quickly integrate new information
Formulate and execute consistently against objectives and priorities

Basic Information

Location: Washington, DC; Boston, MA (virtual); Denver, CO (virtual)

Salary Range: Base salary GS-15 - $105,123 to $136,659

If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected. Total compensation may include locality pay based on the individual’s duty location. For more salary information including locality pay details, please visit OPM’s Salaries & Wages page.

Who May Apply: All United States citizens and nationals (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands) and applicants must not be GSA employees or contractors

Job announcement number: 1900203JCOTR

Opening and closing period for this job application: 8:00am on Monday, December 17, 2018 EDT to 8:00pm on Friday, December 21, 2018 EDT

Job Title: Innovation Specialist

Series & Grade: 0301 - 15

Promotion Potential: GS-15

Number of vacancies: 2 (Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement as needed)

Supervisory status: NO

Travel requirement: Occasional travel may be required up to 10%-20% per year

Security clearance: Public trust. Background investigation required.

Work Schedule: Full time

Appointment Type: Excepted Service: Not to exceed 24 months (2 years); may be extended for an additional 2 years for a maximum of 4 years total.

Job Summary

This is a Schedule A position under 5 CFR 213.3102(r) to hire unique technical skills to develop innovative digital tools and services in the Excepted Services, US Digital Service 18F Fellowship Program. The 18F office is charged with developing innovative digital tools and services and uses lean startup and agile development principles to collaborate with other agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology.

As an Innovation Specialist, the team member serves the government and makes an impact on a massive scale. The position requires that fellows perform work of an exceptional degree of difficulty across a wide range of topics at the convergence of technology, policy, and delivery. The incumbent leverages their experience deploying high quality, user centric platforms and services to lead major initiatives, consult on systems and policy proposal, and provide technical, policy, and programmatic guidance to government.

This position is located within the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Technology Transformation Service (TTS), Office of 18F.

GSA has been repeatedly named as one of the ‘Best Places to Work’ in the federal government. You will have access to many benefits including:

Health insurance (choose from a wide range of plans)
Life insurance coverage with several options
Sick leave and vacation time, including 10 paid holidays per year
Thrift Savings Plan (similar to a 401(k) plan)
Flexible work schedules and telework
Transit and child care subsidies
Training and development
Flexible spending accounts
Long-term care insurance
Training and development

Key Requirements

You must be a U.S. Citizen or National (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)
Suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigation
You may be required to serve a trial period
Direct Deposit of salary check to financial organization required
Register with Selective Service, if you are required by https://www.sss.gov/Registration-Info/Who-Registration

Employment Requirements

Serve a one year trial period, if required
Undergo and pass a background investigation. You must be granted this clearance before you can start the job
Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security’s e-Verify system for this
Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment
Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position

Duties

Typical duties for the fellow include but are not limited to: Conceiving/recommending projects/studies to advance the state of the art in the specialty area; applying forward thinking design and development principles to product or services development, delivery and program management, such as lean startup, usercentered design, and agile development; Analyzing and scoping the technical and policy requirements needed to implement complex digital solutions; Assessing the state of digital services provided by the Federal Government, and working to align strategies and practice; conferring with key government/private officials and top experts in the field, representing the agency at technical symposia and/or conferences; Developing authoritative papers/reports; developing and leading adoption of governmentwide standards for digital services, leading to their adoption across citizen and businessfacing government services; Demonstrating thought leadership and contributing best practices in a variety of technologies and principles; Contributing to a talent strategy that includes recruiting innovators and entrepreneurs to participate in solving complex and esoteric challenges.

Evaluation

We will use a method called Category Rating to assess your application.

Here’s how it will work:

You will be scored based on a review of your application materials, measuring your possession of each of the following competencies

Technical Leadership: The ability to provide technical leadership, mastery, and architecture on complex engineering projects.
Software Engineering Practices: Ability to apply tools, technologies, and established engineering best practices to help deliver innovative technical solutions and products.
Agile Orientation: Ability to apply agile and open source philosophies to deliver work in a frequent and iterative fashion to address user needs.
Communication: Communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, particularly in consulting scenarios, to establish a shared vision and understanding of a project’s technical implementation, objectives and goals.
TTS Core Values Alignment: Working with integrity, transparency and resiliency in civic minded or high impact environment.

If found to be eligible and at least minimally qualified for the position, your score will be used to place you in a category (Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified).

If your resume does not support your possession of the competencies listed above, we may lower your score, which could place you in a lower category.

Within each category, veterans will receive selection priority over non-veterans if supported by appropriate documentation.

Qualifications

All applications will be reviewed by a panel of subject matter experts against a scoring rubric created for this role. In order to properly be able to evaluate your previous experience, we recommend being as detailed as possible in your resume and following our general guidance on creating federal style resume.

To qualify for this role, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is:

Experience as a consultant or internal developer managing client, partner, or account relationships to deliver on large or complex projects as part of a cross-functional team. This experience must include ONE of the following:
- Delivering projects with complex requirements, multiple stakeholders with disparate views or high levels of bureaucracy
- Delivering public-facing products or features on public-facing products with a large number of users (i.e. 100,000+)
- Delivering tools or products with high uptime or availability requirements (i.e. SLAs of 99.9%+)
Experience providing technical leadership on projects or initiatives to deliver digital products or services. This experience must include ONE of the following:
- Conducting technology evaluations
- Making architectural decisions
- Developing product roadmaps
Experience developing full-stack web applications using test-driven development, delivering measurable results for clients. This experience must include ALL of the following:
- Developing digital applications using ONE of the following server-side languages: Python, Ruby, Go or JavaScript/Node.js
- Developing digital applications using a relational or non-relational data layers
- Developing digital applications using test-driven development and software testing tools
Experience deploying or operating digital applications on cloud technologies. This experience must include ONE of the following:
- Developing digital applications using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
- Developing digital applications using Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Developing digital applications using containerization technologies
- Developing digital applications using configuration management tools
- Developing digital applications using infrastructure automation tooling

Qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, so failure to provide this information may result in disqualification.

For each job on your resume, provide:

the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year or “present”)
number of hours per week you worked (if part time)

How To Apply

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