ITSpecialist (Data Management)
Develop, implement, and maintain leading-edge analytic capabilities, taking complicated problems and building simple models/frameworks. Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex financial datasets. Evaluate organizational financial methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for financial datasets. Evaluate internal financial systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and develop and maintain protocols for handling, processing and cleansing financial data. Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization. Work directly with financial managers and users of financial data to gather requirements, provide status updates and build relationships. Work closely project managers to understand and maintain focus on their analytic needs, including critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers. Proactively analyze financial data to answer key questions for stakeholders with an eye on what drives business performance and investigate and communicate which areas need improvement in efficiency and productivity. Develop and maintain financial databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources and build scripts that will make the data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across datasets. Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis, with reporting components from multiple data sources using data visualization tools such as Google Charts, Grafana, Microsoft Excel/Power Bl, Tableau, Zoho Analytics, Datawrapper, Infogram. Provide quality assurance of imported data, working with financial analysts. Commission and decommission data sets. Process confidential data and information according to user requirements. Manage and design reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata. Support data warehouse in identifying and revising report requirements. Assess, test, and implement new or upgrade data analysis software and assist with strategic decision on procuring new data analysis capabilities. Troubleshoot the reporting database environment reports. Train end users on new reports and dashboards. Provide technical expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing. Manage data users and user roles. Manage master data, including creation, updates, and deletions. Prepare financial data reports for executive leadership that effectively communicate trends, patterns and predictions using relevant data.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- This position requires the incumbent to complete a Tier 3 Investigation/Secret clearance with favorable results.
- This position requires cyberspace work as a primary duty. Per DoDM 8140.03, the incumbent must achieve foundational and resident qualification requirements within nine months of assignment.
- This position requires that the incumbent be a U.S. Citizen or a Legal U.S. Resident for a minimum of 3 years.
Qualifications
Business Based Action, Outside Applicant Veteran, Spouse/Widow/Parent of Veteran, and Transition Hiring Preference
In order to qualify, you must meet the 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 the position allows for qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Qualifying Experience:
Experience with data mining as a data analyst and using visualization tools to present data findings. Experience with analytics, including mining, evaluation, and visualization, to better understand data-driven insights. Strong SQL or Excel experience. Experience with statistical analysis through the use of statistical packages, including Excel, SPSS, and SAS. Experience with the use, operation, and functioning of relational databases, as well as data integration and warehousing techniques using third-party integration tools.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
- Bachelor's degree in economics, mathematics, finance, statistics, information systems or computer science field.
- Experience with an accounting role is desirable.
- Aptitude for learning other analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Google Charts, Grafana.
- Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
All other applicants will be referred as needed and requested by the selecting official(s).
**Reminder to Applicants: Your experience has to be clearly identified in your resume in order to receive consideration.
If your resume does not provide enough information regarding your work history for us to make a creditable qualification determination, your application package may be rendered disqualified and you will no longer be considered for this position.
(Format example: Employer name, position title, beginning and ending dates of employment, with summary of duties, etc.)
Education
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. This position does not allow for education substitution.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Additional information
- Individual must fully meet qualification/eligibility/background requirements for this position.
- U.S. Citizens and Non-U.S. Nationals who have resided in the U.S. Territory for three (3) or more consecutive years immediately preceding the start of Federal affiliation or a signed memorandum indicating the installation's decision on the 3-year residency requirement.
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
- Direct deposit is required.
- Satisfactorily complete an employment verification (E-Verify) check.
- A probationary period may be required.
- Pre-employment requirements must be satisfactorily met prior to Entrance on Duty (EOD).
- Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government's interest.
- Multiple positions may be filled from this job opportunity announcement. And additional selections may also be made from this job opportunity announcement.
- Selection(s) are subject to restrictions resulting from hiring preferences and priority consideration eligible.
- This is a Nonappropriated Fund (NAF) position carrying out Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) activities for the Air Force and Space Force.
- Benefits
Conditions of Employment
- This position requires the incumbent to complete a Tier 3 Investigation/Secret clearance with favorable results.
- This position requires cyberspace work as a primary duty. Per DoDM 8140.03, the incumbent must achieve foundational and resident qualification requirements within nine months of assignment.
- This position requires that the incumbent be a U.S. Citizen or a Legal U.S. Resident for a minimum of 3 years.
Qualifications
Business Based Action, Outside Applicant Veteran, Spouse/Widow/Parent of Veteran, and Transition Hiring Preference
In order to qualify, you must meet the 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 the position allows for qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Qualifying Experience:
Experience with data mining as a data analyst and using visualization tools to present data findings. Experience with analytics, including mining, evaluation, and visualization, to better understand data-driven insights. Strong SQL or Excel experience. Experience with statistical analysis through the use of statistical packages, including Excel, SPSS, and SAS. Experience with the use, operation, and functioning of relational databases, as well as data integration and warehousing techniques using third-party integration tools.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
- Bachelor's degree in economics, mathematics, finance, statistics, information systems or computer science field.
- Experience with an accounting role is desirable.
- Aptitude for learning other analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Google Charts, Grafana.
- Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
All other applicants will be referred as needed and requested by the selecting official(s).
**Reminder to Applicants: Your experience has to be clearly identified in your resume in order to receive consideration.
If your resume does not provide enough information regarding your work history for us to make a creditable qualification determination, your application package may be rendered disqualified and you will no longer be considered for this position.
(Format example: Employer name, position title, beginning and ending dates of employment, with summary of duties, etc.)
Education
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. This position does not allow for education substitution.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Additional information
- Individual must fully meet qualification/eligibility/background requirements for this position.
- U.S. Citizens and Non-U.S. Nationals who have resided in the U.S. Territory for three (3) or more consecutive years immediately preceding the start of Federal affiliation or a signed memorandum indicating the installation's decision on the 3-year residency requirement.
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
- Direct deposit is required.
- Satisfactorily complete an employment verification (E-Verify) check.
- A probationary period may be required.
- Pre-employment requirements must be satisfactorily met prior to Entrance on Duty (EOD).
- Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government's interest.
- Multiple positions may be filled from this job opportunity announcement. And additional selections may also be made from this job opportunity announcement.
- Selection(s) are subject to restrictions resulting from hiring preferences and priority consideration eligible.
- This is a Nonappropriated Fund (NAF) position carrying out Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) activities for the Air Force and Space Force.