Responsibilities
- Prepare, search, retrieve, analyze, compare, and evaluate friction ridge images.
- Compare latent prints to known prints and making conclusions.
- Examine digital images and determination if latent prints have sufficient quality to make a comparison, and/or to submit to the available databases.
- Use digital forensic principles and tools and knowledge of tools and systems used for identity exploitation of biometric attributes.
- Utilize professional experience and exposure to review evaluation of identity data housed within large Federal identity information repositories and in the management best practices, techniques, and methods in the biometric field.
- Write technical reports on the scientific analysis of comparisons.
- Develop and maintain professional working relationships with colleagues and.
- Provide outstanding customer service and support to State, Federal and Local Law Enforcement agencies, agents throughout the Department of Homeland Security and its mission partners.
- Provide courtroom testimony which includes the preparation of charts, photographs, and other materials as needed.
- Train less skilled fingerprint examiners in fingerprint examination and analysis as needed.
- Act as the verifier, providing Quality Assurance (QA) checks made by less skilled fingerprint examiners as needed.
- Perform other related duties as needed.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office software applications (Word, Excel, etc.).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher/equivalent work experience in related field.
- 10+ years of experience as a full-time Latent Print Examiner is required.
- Confidence in preparing, searching, retrieving, analyzing, comparing, and evaluating both ten print and latent fingerprints using both automated tools as well as manual methodologies to make a determination of fingerprint matches.
- Ability to assist the management team with training of SOPs and other tasks as needed.
- Ability to work evening, weekend and/or holiday shifts if required.
Nice to Have
- Active Public Trust, Secret or Top-Secret clearance desired.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- Security Requirements: Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance (Public Trust).
- This role supports a government agency which requires U.S. citizenship.
- Location: Springfield, VA (HYBRID).
- Ability to work evening, weekend and/or holiday shifts if required.
