Summary

The Office of Information Technology is seeking applicants for a Supervisory IT Specialist (Assistant Director - Technical Strategy) role. This position demands a blend of proactive thought and engagement, technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscapes. The Assistant Director is instrumental in ensuring the organization's technology ecosystem supports mission success, enhances operational efficiency, and drives continuous improvement.

Duties

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The Assistant Director for Technical Strategy serves as a senior strategic and operational leader responsible for shaping and sustaining the organization's enterprise architecture program, business needs intake process, and managing an exceptional project management office. This role ensures that technology solutions are fully aligned with mission objectives and business priorities, while working proactively to drive innovation and operational excellence across the enterprise.

As the principal designer or the enterprise's technology framework, this position is essential to business needs intake through a hyper-focus on customer service, partnership, and solutions alignment to facilitate mission priorities. This position also establishes an enterprise-wide technology vision and develops a comprehensive architecture framework and roadmap that supports both immediate operational needs and long-term strategic goals. This position plays a critical role in bridging business strategy with technology execution, ensuring that all IT investments deliver maximum value, maintain security and compliance standards, and position the Commission to meet evolving challenges.

In this role as a Assistant Director - Technical Strategy, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining the enterprise architecture strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap aligned with the Commission's strategic plan.
• Conducting current state assessments, gap analyses, and future state architecture planning to guide modernization and technology investments.
• Establishing architecture principles, standards, patterns, and guidelines for technology selection and implementation across the enterprise.
• Leading and mentoring senior architects, technical leads, project managers, and specialized staff to ensure high-quality architectural and project management practices.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize and implement innovative technology solutions leveraging cloud, SaaS, PaaS, and emerging technologies.
• Modernizing and retiring legacy systems while defining strategies for new projects, including build versus buy decisions and integration requirements.
• Facilitating architectural and project review processes, advisory councils, workgroups, and governance forums to maintain standards and best practices.
• Interpreting and operationalizing federal IT policies, legislative mandates, and regulatory requirements into architectural and project management standards and technical guidelines.
• Developing and maintaining enterprise architecture and project management compliance programs, establish audit frameworks, monitor mechanisms, and accountability structures.
• Translating organizational strategy into actionable architecture plans and measurable outcomes.
• Overseeing security, compliance, and risk management; ensure interoperability and performance across platforms.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• CITZENSHIP: You must be a US Citizen.
• SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/)
• SECURITY CLEARANCE: Entrance on duty is contingent upon completion of a pre-employment security investigation. Favorable results on a Background Investigation may be a condition of employment or selection to another position.
• DRUG TESTING: This position may be subjected to drug testing requirements.
• PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS): Moving/Relocation expenses are not authorized.
• DIRECT DEPOSIT: All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• SUPERVISORY PROBATIONARY PERIOD: This appointment may require completion of a two year supervisory/managerial probationary period.
• The duties of this position may require the incumbent to carry a cell phone and be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a rotational basis, based on the needs of the organization.

Qualifications

Time-in-grade for this announcement is one year at the GS/SK-14 level.

Applicants are responsible for confirming all required materials are submitted by the closing date of the announcement. Please check the HowYou Will Be Evaluated and Required Documents sections carefully, as missing documents will render the application incomplete and ineligible for review.

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

BASIC REQUIREMENT: For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below:

1. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
2. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
3. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
4. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the basic requirement, applicants must also meet the minimum qualification requirement below.

SK-17: Applicant must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS/SK-14 level:

1. Engaging with customers to identify opportunities for new or improved business process solutions;
2. Managing a project management office;
3. Conducting technology analyses to guide strategies for new and innovative technology projects; AND
4. Executing a customer focused business model for engagement on technology projects.

ACCOMPLISHMENT RECORD COMPETENCIES: Your Accomplishment Record narratives should address the following competencies. See the How You Will Be Evaluated section below for more information:

• Developing and Managing Others: Ability to recruit, develop and manage the workforce to meet organizational goals, with little or no guidance.
• Technology Awareness: Uses technological developments, new requirements, and new applications of information technology (hardware, software, and telecommunications), emerging technologies and their integration into business processes, and implementation of information systems to meet organizational requirements.
• Strategic Execution: Understand and implement SEC's and Division/Office's policies and goals, with regard to personnel or programs in their purview anticipating, identifying, and addressing the impact of internal and external environmental factors, linking them to capabilities and potential of the organization. network)
• Technology Expertise: Knowledge of the principles and methods of specialized technologies, tools, and delivery systems, including security, risk management, governance, functionality, and user interface in area of expertise (e.g., programming languages, server, web, applications, network)

Additional information

Supplementary vacancies may be filled in addition to the number stated in this announcement and may be filled from any division or office within the agency.

SEC COMPENSATION PROGRAM: Total salary (base pay + locality) is dependent upon duty location. The overall salary range listed above is provided for informational purposes; a selectee's initial pay will be established below the maximum rate of the range. The pay for current SEC employees will be determined according to the procedures specified in the agency's policy. Please visit the agency's Compensation Overview page for more information.

Benefits

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