IT Specialist

This position is part of the Department of Defense (DoD), Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The incumbent will be responsible for carrying out assignments independently, and is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and oversight of applications and services for the acquisition, manipulation, storage, retrieval, and exchange of information in electronic formats.

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: ACQDEMO

As a IT Specialist (Data Management) at the NH broadband level some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Provides guidance to deploying and maintaining applications and technologies, including developing concepts of operations, and strategies for training, deployment, operations, and maintenance strategies. Provides customer outreach to internal organizations to ensure effective deployments, and collects and analyzes metrics to ensure efficiencies of the deployments. Ensures help desk operations and user training requirements are adequately addressed before deployments.
• Keeps abreast of technological developments in information management within MDA, OSD, DoD, other federal agencies, and the private sector, plus provides recommendations to immediate supervisor regarding the implementation and proliferation of IT to include hardware and software platforms. Advises immediate peers and supervisor on all activities related to IT data, knowledge, collaboration technologies, and information management concepts, requirements, and related issues.
• Conducts studies and requirements analyses to ensure that Agency IT needs are being effectively addressed and analyzes and plans for anticipated changes in requirements. Develops budget plans and budget estimates needed to acquire MDA IT equipment, associated peripherals, and related hardware and software. Provides oversight to support contractors and technology vendors.