Supervisory IT Specialist (Policy and Planning)

Quick Facts

• Role: Supervisory IT Specialist (Policy and Planning)

• Focus: Enterprise IT security, availability, and infrastructure policy/program planning

Description

Lead enterprise IT policy and planning initiatives that support secure, high-availability infrastructure for mission-critical environments. Provide subject-matter expert leadership for planning, oversight, and reporting of assigned IT projects with broad independent judgment. Make decisions that shape major architecture and long-range technical strategies while developing standards and processes to protect enterprise networks, systems, and applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME leadership for planning, direction, oversight, and reporting of assigned projects

• Oversee program planning, approve long-range work plans, and manage policy change development

• Approve allocation/distribution of funding and exercise final personnel authority for subordinate organizations

• Make major-impact architecture and strategy decisions

• Develop new standards, methods, and techniques; evaluate technological change and propose solutions to complex issues

• Exercise full supervisory and management authority for recurring activities and a significant team of IT specialists and analysts

• Lead and coordinate a defined program, communicate progress, and ensure alignment with agency priorities

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Complete all required application steps, including an online assessment

• Background/security investigation required

• Complete online onboarding and provide acceptable identification

• Serve a 1-year probationary period

• Demonstrated IT-related competencies: attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, problem solving

• 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-14 in enterprise Identity/Credential/Access Management (ICAM/IAM), Active Directory, PKI, and database administration programs

• Experience ensuring security, availability, and compliance of mission-critical systems under federal cybersecurity standards

• Experience managing IT budgets and resources across multiple technical teams

• Experience advising senior leadership on identity governance and infrastructure risk

• Experience overseeing vendor and contract management for critical support systems and services

• No educational substitution at this grade level

Benefits

Federal employee benefits package; eligibility depends on the type of position held.