The United States Department of Agriculture's overarching mission is to provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management. With USDA you'll have the flexibility and freedom to explore a world of possibilities through a wealth of exciting and challenging career opportunities. By joining USDA, you can hone your career skills while helping to secure the U.S. future and make a real difference in the lives of Americans and people around the world.
The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is seeking a motivated and highly-qualified candidate for an exciting full-time permanent position located in the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Division located in Washington, DC. The mission of the EA Division is to support business, data, applications, technology, security, and improved planning and risk management at both the agency and Department levels; enable more cost-effective and efficient use of IT resources, and to ensure that programs promote a common USDA Enterprise Architecture. This position establishes an IT Security Architect position to analyze/perform work necessary to plan, design, develop, acquire, document, test, implement, integrate, maintain, or modify systems for solving problems or accomplishing work processes by using computers.CONCURRENT ANNOUNCEMENT: This vacancy is also being announced as vacancy announcement number IT-2012-0133. Please review that announcement if you wish to be considered under merit promotion procedures. Note: Applicants must apply separately for each announcement in order to be considered under both procedures.