• Job Description

  Req#: 697155900
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  WHAT IS THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) DIVISION?
  A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions
  
  Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
  Positions may be filled in any area within Information Technology
  
  The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.
  
  
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  Qualifications
  
  
  Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
  
  You must meet the following requirements by the time of referral:
  
  BASIC REQUIREMENT: Four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher professional engineering degree. The curriculum must:
  1) be in a school of engineering accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
  or
  2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics:
  1. Statics, dynamics
  2. strength of materials (stress strain relationships)
  3. fluid mechanics, hydraulics
  4. thermodynamics
  5. electrical fields and circuits
  6. nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties)
  7. any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
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  A Combination of education and experience. The education must include courses equivalent to a major in engineering, as shown above. To be qualifying your experience must be sufficient to demonstrate: Thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. This must be demonstrated by meeting one of the following: Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Written Test showing evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration. Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided that you have at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.
  
  In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
  
  SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-14 LEVEL : You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:
  • Experience that is related to the work of this position and has provided you with the competencies required for successful job performance.
  • Qualifying experience is having the mastery knowledge and technical experience of fundamental principles of professional engineering and scientific disciplines research, design, development integrated computer hardware/software information systems
  • Expert experience of systems design principles and development methodologies; experience with information systems practices in areas such as applications development, systems integration, telecommunications, database management, security, and software engineering.
  At this level your experience should include:
  • Formulating and applying new IS design principles based on broad architectural guidance
  • Participating in resolving mission critical agency-wide issues
  • Developing Service-wide information systems and providing recommendations.
  SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-15 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:
  • Experience that is related to the work of this position and has provided you with the competencies required for successful job performance
  • Qualifying experience is having the mastery knowledge and technical experience of fundamental principles of professional engineering and scientific disciplines research, design, development integrated computer hardware/software information systems
  • Expert experience of systems design principles and development methodologies; experience with information systems practices in areas such as applications development, systems integration, telecommunications, database management, security, and software engineering.
  At this level your experience should include:
  • Formulating and applying new IS design principles based on broad architectural guidance
  • Participating in resolving mission critical agency-wide issues
  • Developing Service-wide information systems and providing recommendations.
  For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

• About the company

  The secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with all financial and monetary matters relating to the federal government, and, until 2003, also included several major federal law enforcement agencies. The secretary of the treasury is the principal economic advisor to the president of the United States and plays a critical role in policy-making by bringing an economic and government financial policy perspective to issues facing the federal government. The secretary of the treasury is a member of the United States Cabinet, and is nominated by the president of the United States. Nominees for Secretary of the Treasury undergo a confirmation hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Finance, prior to a vote by the United States Senate.

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