IT Specialist (DATAMGT)

IRS-babd5cc6; Fresno (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking qualified IT professionals for Data and Platform Engineering roles in Data & Platform Engineering. The position emphasizes leading IT projects, implementing secure and scalable data solutions, and coordinating across technical teams to meet mission-critical objectives.

Applicants should have strong data engineering experience, familiarity with ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and modern CI/CD practices to support enterprise data initiatives and federal

Qualifications

• Leading IT projects, coordinating app-related efforts, or system initiatives affecting multiple users or teams.
• Applying advanced IT principles to evaluate requirements and guide testing, configuration decisions, and regulatory compliance.
• Engaging stakeholders to define requirements and deliver secure, scalable IT solutions.
• Evaluating performance, availability, reliability, security controls, and operational effectiveness; leading improvements.
• Analyzing approaches and recommending designs for IT solutions with organizational impact.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using distributed data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Spark).
• Experience defining data models, schemas, and metadata standards across systems.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Customer Service

Decision Making

Information Management

Interpersonal Skills

Oral Communication

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Technical Competence

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

WHAT IS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?

A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

• Position(s) are to be filled in the following area(s):
  • IT - Data and Platform Engineering - Data & Platform Engineering
• Consider each location carefully when applying. If you are selected for a location, that location will become your official post of duty.

REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS

Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To qualify for this position, you must meet the qualification requirements outlined below:

Minimum requirements for Grade 12 and UP (GS or Equivalent) Applicants must have Information Technology related experience demonstrating each of the following nine competencies: 1) Attention to Detail, 2) Customer Service, 3) Decision Making, 4) Information Management, 5) Interpersonal Skills, 6) Oral Communication, 7) Problem Solving, 8) Teamwork and 9) Technical Competence.

AND

• Leading or coordinating IT projects, application-related efforts, operational initiatives, or system-related activities that affect multiple users, teams, programs, or business processes.
• Applying advanced IT principles, concepts, methods, and practices to evaluate requirements; resolve technical issues; guide system, application, or code testing and configuration decisions; and ensure technical documentation and federal cybersecurity, privacy, or regulatory requirements are addressed.
• Engaging customers, stakeholders, users, product or business owners, and technical teams to define business or technical requirements, communicate technical impacts, and guide delivery of secure, reliable, scalable IT solutions.
• Evaluating system, service, or application performance, availability, reliability, security controls, usability, and operational effectiveness; identifying risks, issues, defects, or gaps; and leading corrective actions or improvement efforts.
• Analyzing competing technical approaches and providing authoritative recommendations to management, stakeholders, or IT specialists on the selection, design, configuration, implementation, or improvement of IT solutions with organizational impact.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining ETL and ELT pipelines that ingest structured and unstructured data, apply transformation rules, manage processing failures, and publish curated datasets using distributed data processing platforms (e.g., Databricks, Apache Spark).
• Experience defining and implementing logical and physical data models, schemas, semantic mappings, metadata standards, and tiered data structures to maintain consistent data definitions and relationships across systems and platforms.
• Experience implementing source control, peer review, automated testing, workflow orchestration, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes using source code management and automation tools (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions) to promote code and data pipeline changes through development, testing, and production environments.
• Experience preparing and maintaining system documentation, data dictionaries, architecture and data flow diagrams, interface specifications, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks to support system deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, and audit reviews.
• Experience translating organizational objectives into data and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure requirements, implementation tasks, acceptance criteria, and operational controls to deliver solutions that support defined mission outcomes and comply with applicable policies.

You must also meet the following requirements:

MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT: Minimum age for federal employment is 18 years old, or at least 16 years old and have:

• Graduated from high school or been awarded a certificate equivalent to graduating from high school; or
• Completed a formal vocational training program; or
• Received a statement from school authorities agreeing with your preference for employment rather than continuing your education.

For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.