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Government Titles and Technology Roles

This resource helps tech professionals navigate how their skills and roles align with government job types and titles, providing a starting point for exploring positions within the structured civil service system.

Published Year: 2024

Navigating the tech sector roles and learning how those roles and skills translate to government job types and titles can be overwhelming. Most government roles abide by established civil service rules in order to protect the integrity and fairness of the civil service, which often makes it hard to translate to the fast-evolving tech roles and disciplines in the private sector. The list below is not inclusive and may not be equally applied across all federal jobs and agencies, but hopefully it gives tech candidates exploring government positions a place to start. Candidates should still look at each job posting to determine if the description meets their experience.