The Department of Defense, Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA), is searching for an IT Specialist in Data Management & Systems Analysis, according to a job posting on USAJobs.gov.
This position is in the DHRA’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). DHRA’s mission is to provide program support, information management, and administrative services to the DoD Components on human resource matters and to collect, archive and provide management information, research and analysis of human resources and other related functional area databases for the DoD.
According to the posting, duties for the IT Specialist in Data Management & Systems Analysis include:
- Responsible for leading major automated personnel, manpower, training, and pay databases and applications maintained at DMDC pertaining to data quality reporting/dashboards, root cause analysis, and data issue management.
- Establishes data quality tracking and reporting systems to monitor and display critical steps for all major program enhancement projects.
- Manages the data and computer programs used for data quality reporting and root cause analysis of the assigned databases into the overall DMDC database repository, to include documentation of the database and associated files within the DMDC Enterprise Data Dictionary.
- Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing updates, improvements, or revisions to the data quality programs and models to conform to legislative or policy changes or data quality improvements.
- Gives detailed technical guidance to IT specialists and management analysts who have been assigned to assist with modifications or changes to the computer programs involved.


