Supervisory IT Specialist (Enterprise Architect)

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) Office of the Deputy Director Case Management Modernization Office (CMM) is seeking an experienced Supervisory IT Specialist (Enterprise Architect) to join its team.

The Supervisory IT Specialist (Enterprise Architect) leads a team of architects including vendors to design technical solutions across the CMM product bringing a broad range of technical skills and acting as a bridge between the build product architecture (PAX) data and security workstreams. Sitting in the PAX solution layer this position uses modern tools and technologies to recommend technical solutions that enable secure scalable delivery aligned to AO enterprise expectations. This is a hands-on position that may require interactions with courts court support teams development and internal teams and administrative staff from both a technical and business perspective.

The duties of this position include but are not limited to:

1. Uncovering and documenting nonfunctional requirements and architecture runway to de-risk delivery across sprints and releases.
2. Partnering with DevSecOps engineers and security pods to ensure designs satisfy secure-by-design expectations and delivery evidence needs.
3. Developing guidance on development strategy tooling dependencies and best practices to ensure the build pods move at a strong pace.
4. Developing solution designs for operational readiness including observability reliability and support handoffs in concert with other PAX pod members.
5. Collaborating with security and data architects to ensure cloud patterns enable API data and cross-service interoperability.
6. Working with other enterprise cloud data and solution architects in the implementation of a new cloud-based enterprise compute platform for a judiciary critical system.
7. Developing and implementing requirements and appropriate design patterns that satisfy the needs of the various system components.
8. Leading the exploration of alternate design choices particularly in lieu of other 3rd party technology stacks and solutions.
9. Driving innovation across development teams by developing best practices and innovative approaches using modern cloud strategies.
10. Collaborating with technical and business subject matter experts to develop the appropriate implementation strategies enabling the optimal use of modern cloud tools and platforms.
11. Working with enterprise architects across the judiciary to develop best practices methods and standards needed to run a world-class cloud system.
12. Surfacing and documenting architectural risks tradeoffs and alternatives for timely escalation.
13. Participating in solution architecture reviews to align technical decisions to program-wide guardrails and cross-pod dependencies.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection withdrawal of an offer of employment or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306 Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue) non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States please refer to Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify including your rights/responsibilities visit new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
5. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government transferring from another Federal agency or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
6. If appointed to a temporary position management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification Compensation and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience is demonstrated experience in each of the following:

1. Designing and governing complex software solutions.
2. Translating nonfunctional requirements into actionable design constraints/engineering rules.