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Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION: Data Stewards manage data within databases to satisfy customer requirements. They generate, approve, and populate data for databases, evaluate data quality, and determine availability of data. They apply knowledge of products, data, and systems to support the extraction, analysis, and finishing of data. They prepare and validate data for web publishing.
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Overview
- Job closed
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Open & closing dates
10/28/2019 to 11/09/2019
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Salary
$62,979 - $128,920 per year
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Pay scale & grade
IA 03
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Locations
Many vacancies in the following locations:
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Telework eligible
No
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Travel Required
25% or less - Travel Required 25% or Less
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Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
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Appointment type
Permanent - This is a permanent position.
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Work schedule
Full-time - Full Time
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Service
Excepted
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Promotion potential
3
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Job family (Series)
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Supervisory status
No
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Security clearance
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Drug test
Yes
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Announcement number
20200028
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Control number
549814100
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Duties
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Data Stewards organize data properties and relationships according to a system of categories. They create models or simulations of the intersection of data categories to enable data decisions and determine potential risk and risk mitigation. They make decisions about the quality and availability of moderately complex data. As a Data Steward it is desirable to have awareness of data governance and how its policies and practices direct a data stewards data-related activities and responsibilities. Other duties may include: * Develop an understanding of customer requirements; recommend specific data sources and types to satisfy mission needs. * Manage data projects to address challenges and priorities. * Perform data conditioning techniques and processes for data management purposes. * Synchronize data from numerous sources; develop data taxonomy to support integration into intelligence products. * Nominate and implement data standards and ontology; and actively participates in the development of standards through working groups. * Create and maintain metadata to quality specifications, and ensure data documentation is developed and maintained. * Provide oversight during development of data for visualization/analytic projects and develop schemas to ensure the data needs and requirements are documented. * Ensure service interoperability and works to develop taxonomies where there are deficiencies in data standards. * Determine requirements to collect data and identify existing data stores, disparate data, or data collection parameters, and ensures the data collected are consistent with data models to dissolve any data silos. * Research data issues and inquiries and implements process for data transformations, to resolve data issues, collaboration on system changes, and the integrity and quality of data personally created/updated. * Conduct data validation and reconciliation processes following completion of data movement, and enforces processes for data quality issue resolution * Ensure versions of data are maintained along with the history of changes, so that data content and changes can be audited. * Conduct QA/QC checks on structured observation data to reduce inconsistencies * Apply data science principles to query and associate GIS features (points, lines & polygons) and related non-spatial data to improve upon spatial/GIS features, attribution and dataset interoperability. * Employ parallel processing and GPUs and/or cloud computing to increase operational efficiencies of GIS data query and use. * Understand data standards & extraction specifications along with comprehension of how analysts currently utilize data and how they might expect to use content in the future. * Interrogate, prepare data to deliver results and/or deploy automated processes using: o Python, o R o JavaScript * Employ GIS software for data analysis and data management using: o ArcPro o QGIS * Communicate technically both orally and in writing and to constructively resolve data-related issues by leading and/or working as a member of a team. * Evaluate and utilize data services and applications to institute improvements to data content and structure, metadata, data models, data quality, accessibility and dissemination. * Ensure established metadata policies and processes are adhered to for increased integration, access, efficiency, and discoverability. * Build data schemas and/or data profiles to enable multiple mission use of data. * Apply knowledge of databases, GIS data file formats, commercial imagery data, digital image processing techniques, and GIS software.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- US Citizenship is required.
- Designated or Random Drug Testing required.
- Security Investigation
SPECIAL INFO:
As a condition of employment at NGA, persons being considered for employment must meet NGA fitness for employment standards.
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Security Clearance (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information)
- Polygraph Test Required
- Position Subject to Drug Testing
- Two Year Probationary Period
- Direct Deposit Required
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
You must be able to obtain and retain a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information. In addition, you are subject to a Counterintelligence Polygraph examination in order to maintain access to Top Secret information. All employees are subject to a periodic examination on a random basis in order to determine continued eligibility. Refusal to take the examination may result in denial of access to Top Secret information, SAP, and/or unescorted access to SCIFs.
Employees with SCI access and who are under NGA cognizance are required to submit a Security Financial Disclosure Report, SF-714, on an annual basis in order to determine continued eligibility. Failure to comply may negatively impact continued access to Top Secret information, Information Systems, SAP, and/or unescorted access to SCIFs.
NGA utilizes all processes and procedures of the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Non-executive NGA employees are assigned to five distinct pay bands based on the type and scope of work performed. The employee's base salary is established within their assigned pay band based on their unique qualifications. A performance pay process is conducted each year to determine a potential base pay salary increase and/or bonus. An employee's annual performance evaluation is a key factor in the performance pay process. Employees on term or temporary appointments are not eligible to apply for internal assignment opportunity notices.
This position is a DCIPS position in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C. 1601. DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans' Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. If you are an external applicant claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must self-identify your eligibility in our ERecruit application.
Qualifications
MANDATORY QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: For this particular job, applicants must meet all competencies reflected under the Mandatory Qualification Criteria to include education (if required). Online resumes must demonstrate qualification by providing specific examples and associated results, in response to the announcement's mandatory criteria specified in this vacancy announcement: 1. Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and/or maintaining databases. 2. Ability to develop data set processes for data discovery, modeling, mining, and/or production. 3. Demonstrated experience in acquiring, validating, integrating, and/or maintaining data within databases. 4. Demonstrated experience in analyzing data, and/or reconciling differences and redundancies to ensure consistency. EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: A. Education: Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Econometrics, or UX/UI Design / Data Visualization, Cartography, Geospatial Sciences, Physical Sciences, or related disciplines. The 30 semester (45 quarter) hours must include at least 6 semester (9 quarter) hours of college level non-business mathematics or statistics. -OR- B. Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education in any area listed in option A and experience that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the tasks associated with this work. As a rule, every 30 semester (45 quarter) hours of college work is equivalent to one year of experience. Candidates should show that their combination of education and experience totals to 4 years -OR- C. Experience: Four years of significant applied experience in a field that includes data management, feature extraction, data evaluation and manipulation, and/or related experiences associated with this work. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENT: Near visual acuity of 20/40 or better with or without corrective lenses; Far visual acuity of 20/60 or better binocular with or without corrective lenses.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: In addition to the mandatory qualifications, experience in the following is desired:
1. Customer focused with tactful communication skills such as written and verbal and an ability to handle confidential/sensitive information.
2. Ability to multi-task, collaborate with peers, customers, and management to accomplish a variety of different tasks in a constantly changing environment.
3. Experience with GIS tools in the extraction and attribution, preparation, management and/or analysis of spatial data.
4. Demonstrated understanding of GIS, cartographic principles and the geo-referencing of information.
5. Knowledge of extraction, final product and metadata specifications.
6. Experience with a variety of computing languages and tools e.g., scripting languages.
Benefits
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Applicants are not required to submit a cover letter. The entire cover letter cannot exceed the specified limits provided in the Cover Letter field (3,000 characters). Pages exceeding this limit will not be considered. THE COVER LETTER IS RECOMMENDED BUT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR EMPLOYMENT CONSIDERATION WITH THE NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
APPLICANT EVALUATION PROCESS: Applicants will be evaluated for this job opportunity in three stages: 1) All applicants will be evaluated using the Mandatory Qualification Criteria, 2) Qualified applicants will then be evaluated by an expert or panel of experts using a combination of qualification criteria to determine the best-qualified candidates, 3) Best-qualified applicants may then be further evaluated through an interview process. Military retiree applicants, if selected, may be impacted by the 180-day appointment restrictions of DODI 1402.01. HD personnel will provide additional information if applicable. Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the Assignment Description, Additional Information Provided By the Selecting Official, and the Qualification Requirements; and then construct their resumes to highlight their most relevant and significant experience and education for this job opportunity. This description should include examples that detail the level and complexity of the performed work. Applicants are encouraged to provide any education information referenced in the announcement. If education is listed as a mandatory requirement, only degrees obtained from an institution accredited by an accrediting organization recognized by the Secretary, US Department of Education will be accepted. As a condition of employment at NGA, persons being considered for employment must meet NGA fitness for employment standards. In accordance with section 9902(h) of title 5, United States Code, annuitants reemployed in the Department of Defense shall receive full annuity and salary upon appointment. They shall not be eligible for retirement contributions, participation in the Thrift Savings Plan, or a supplemental or redetermined annuity for the reemployment period. Discontinued service retirement annuitants (i.e., retired under section 8336(d)(1) or 8414(b)(1)(A) of title 5, United States Code) appointed to the Department of Defense may elect to be subject to retirement provisions of the new appointment as appropriate. (See DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 300, at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives.) All candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation. NGA provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Applications will only be accepted online. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify us at recruitment@nga.mil. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.
Benefits
Required Documents
As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies.
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If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
Application submission involves applying using NGA's on-line application process. Application Instructions can be found by visiting: http://www.intelligencecareers.gov/NGA
All announcements close at 11:59PM EDT on the closing date listed. Be sure to complete and submit your application by that time in order to be considered.
ONLY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Agency contact information
Recruitment
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NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Mailstop: S44-HDR
7500 GEOINT Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
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Next steps
After visiting https://www.nga.mil/Careers and applying via NGA's on-line application process, applicants can follow their status via that same NGA on-line application functionality. Several other topics relating to what is involved in the hiring process and how long it takes can be found by visiting http://www.intelligencecareers.gov/NGA and choosing Frequently Asked Questions.
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The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
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Required Documents
None
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
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How to Apply
Application submission involves applying using NGA's on-line application process. Application Instructions can be found by visiting: http://www.intelligencecareers.gov/NGA
All announcements close at 11:59PM EDT on the closing date listed. Be sure to complete and submit your application by that time in order to be considered.
ONLY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Agency contact information
Recruitment
- Address
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NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Mailstop: S44-HDR
7500 GEOINT Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
US
Next steps
After visiting https://www.nga.mil/Careers and applying via NGA's on-line application process, applicants can follow their status via that same NGA on-line application functionality. Several other topics relating to what is involved in the hiring process and how long it takes can be found by visiting http://www.intelligencecareers.gov/NGA and choosing Frequently Asked Questions.
Fair & Transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
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Agency contact information
Recruitment
- Address
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NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Mailstop: S44-HDR
7500 GEOINT Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
US