{"id":4040724,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect","title":"IT Specialist (Junior Solutions Architect)","company":{"id":1753246,"name":"SBA","domain":"sba.gov","url":"https://alion.io/company/sba-gov","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Washington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":102415,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":102415},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T13:32:11Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T13:32:11Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Summary\nThis position is located in the Small Business Administration, Office of the Chief Information Officer in Washington, DC. The incumbent produces architecture artifacts, develops candidate design patterns for senior review and enterprise adoption, and represents the division in cross-office and cross-agency architecture forums. The incumbent applies SBA reference architectures and standards, exercises initiative and resourcefulness in adapting guidance to new solution problems.\nDuties\n\n As a/an IT Specialist (Junior Solutions Architect) at theGS- 2210-12, some of your typical work assignments may include:\n\n Designs application, integration, data, and infrastructure components of moderately complex SBA IT solutions and produces architecture artifacts and decision records using SBA templates.\n\n Performs technical analysis for program office requirements, market research, and acquisition planning, and triages new solution requests including integration touchpoints and data classifications.\n\n Reviews submissions for the SBA architecture review board and performs quality assurance on architecture artifacts against SBA templates, standards, and traceability expectations.\n\n Represents the division with program office leads, contractors, and OCIO peers, and justifies architecture direction to skeptical stakeholders using structured analysis and enterprise standards.\n\nRequirements\nConditions of employment\n\n You must be a U.S. Citizen\n\n You must successfully complete a background investigation.\n\n You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.\n\n Qualifications\n\n GS-12: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector:\n\n(1) Designing components of information technology solutions and producing architecture artifacts or decision records using established templates; and\n\n(2) Performing technical analysis of technologies or new solution requests to support requirements or acquisition activities; and\n\n(3) Reviewing information technology designs or artifacts against architecture, security, or quality standards and documenting findings; and\n\n(4) Communicating and justifying technical recommendations in writing and orally to technical and program stakeholders.\n\nThese qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume.\n\nAdditional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site:\n\nCompetency-Based Qualification Standard for the Information Technology Management Series, 2210\n\nExperience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.\n\nGenerally, time in Non-Pay status as a federal employee is not creditable towards the specialized experience requirement listed above.\n\nAll qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 11/23/2026.\n\n Education\n\n There is no education substitution for this grade level.\n\n Additional information\n Reasonable Accommodation Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 as amended, that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodation in your online application. Requests for Reasonable Accommodations for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for Reasonable Accommodation must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodation, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments\n\nCareer and InterAgency Career Transition Assistance Programs: Are programs that applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed.\n\nCareer Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) is a program that helps \"surplus\" or \"displaced\" federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job in their current agency (intra-agency, i.e. SBA employees only).\n\nInter-Agency Career Transition Assistance (ICTAP) is a program that helps \"surplus\" or \"displaced\" federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job at another agency (inter-agency; i.e. not applying to their current or former agency).\n\nYou are eligible for CTAP/ICTAP if:\n\n1. You are a current federal employee who meets the definition of a \"surplus\" or \"displaced\" employee meaning you have received official notice that your job is no longer needed or that you will lose your job by Reduction-in-Force (RIF).\n\n2. Your agency, or the agency to which you are applying, is accepting applications from within or outside of the permanent workforce.\n\n3. The position to which you are applying MUST BE in the Local Commuting Area of the position of record from which you are being displaced.\n\n4. You meet the qualifications and other requirements of the job for which you are applying. This includes being rated as well-qualified for the position (score of 85 or better based on your responses to the competencies and associated questions listed within the assessment).\n\n Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.\n\n A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .\n\n Review our benefits\n\n Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.\nHow you will be evaluated\nYou will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.\n\n Applicants meeting basic eligibility requirements will be further evaluated based on additional assessments. One of these assessment is USA Hire. Based on your application and your responses to the application questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).\n\nYour USA Hire assessment results will be kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply that require the same assessments.\n\nThe assessments relate to the following Competencies required to do the work of this position:\n\n Information Technology Architecture\n\n Requirements Analysis\n\n Quality Assurance\n\n Influencing/Negotiating\n\nIn order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. One of the required assessments for this position is an online assessment that measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.\n\nThe assessment includes a cut score based on the minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. You must meet or exceed the cut score to be considered. You will not be considered for the position if you score below the cut score or fail to complete the assessment.\n\nYour application will be evaluated under the Category Rating method based on your assessments. You will receive a score based on the responses to the assessment questions. If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities. If you meet basic requirements for the position, your application will be evaluated and placed into one of three categories:\n\n1. Best-Qualified: highly proficient with an overall comprehensive level of knowledge, skills and abilities related to the job based on a complete review of experience, education, and training as described in an applicant's responses to the assessment questions and resume.\n\n2. Well-Qualified: competent in the position with an overall accomplished level of knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the job based on a complete review of experience, training, and education as applicable, as described in an applicant's responses to the assessment questions and resume.\n\n3. Qualified: an overall basic level of knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the job based on a complete review of experience, education, and training, as described in an applicant's responses to the assessment questions and resume.\n\nCandidates eligible for veterans' preference will be placed ahead of other candidates in the appropriate category for which they have been rated. Additionally, preference eligibles who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent and who meet Minimum Qualification Requirements will automatically be placed in the Best Qualified Category.\n\n A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .\n\n Review our benefits\n\n Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.\n\n Failure to submit any of the required documents by the closing date/time of the vacancy will result in your removal from consideration for this position. Please review your application prior to final submission and ensure you have submitted all appropriate documents. Uploading documents to USAJOBs does NOT ensure inclusion with your application to our system. You must verify that the documents are in the system with your application prior to final submission.\n\n1. Your Resume must not include photographs. Resume length may not exceed 2 pages and must contain the following information:\n\n Name, address, telephone number, email address;\n\n Job Title (if Federal Service, provide series and grade; if not in GS plan, provide GS equivalent grade);\n\n If qualifying based on related unpaid (e.g. volunteer service) experience, you must provide hours worked per week and beginning/ending dates (mm/dd/yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy);\n\n If other than full time you must provide hours worked per week.\n\n PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your resume must contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to m...","description_format":"text","description_chars":19958,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Business & SME Lending","Public Administration & Local Government"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T22:04:20Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:16:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":102415,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T05:16:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6680,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1753246},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1753246"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsba-it-specialist-junior-solutions-architect"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4040724}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sba.gov","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4040724},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}