The Employment Development Department (EDD) is seeking a lead storage architect (IT Specialist III) with expertise in backup and disaster recovery (DR) to join the Information Technology Branch “as part of a multi-year effort to create and put in place risk management strategies while building enterprise resilience, for now and for the future.” According to the job posting and duty statement, the lead architect:
- Provides expert-level technical guidance and strategic direction to IT executive management and other technical direction to IT specialists and subject matter experts to establish recovery plans and resource acquisition methodologies; plan and direct recovery exercise; manage related IT budgets and develop annual program agendas and recovery improvement metrics.
- Has extensive decision-making authority and directs the most critical and complex projects, including the development of enterprise architecture. In addition, the incumbent will provide strategic and tactical technical direction supporting storage, backup, DR and cross-domain expertise at a deep technical level.
- Develops an enterprise-wide DR program including the formulation of DR strategies and policy. Provides expert-level technical guidance and strategic direction to IT executive management and other technical direction to IT specialists and subject matter experts to establish storage, backup and recovery plans and resource acquisition methodologies. Plans and directs DR exercises and oversees related IT budgets, develops annual program agendas and creates recovery improvement metrics.
- Provides leadership and mastery-level expertise and support in the evaluation, testing, design and implementation of hardware, software, network and cloud solutions for the enterprise storage, backup and data protection infrastructure.
The California Secretary of State’s Office (SOS) is seeking a software engineering section chief (IT Manager I) to oversee planning, organizing and directing the ongoing operational activities of both the Analysis and Quality Assurance and Application Development teams. These teams provide technical support to the various programs within SOS that support three divisions: Business Processing, Executive and Legislative Affairs.
The chief interacts closely with personnel within the Software Engineering Application Branch, System Engineering, System Architects, the Office of Risk Management, the Project Management Office, product vendors, service providers and the California Department of Technology, according to the job posting and duty statement. Desirable qualifications for this role include:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent and/or two years’ IT experience as a technical lead or supervisor working with multiple teams.
- Knowledge and experience in project management, the state Project Approval Lifecycle process and legislative bill analysis.
- Strong proficiency in the software development life cycle and familiarity with either agile or waterfall methodologies.
- Knowledge or experience in cloud technologies, Azure Dev/Sec/OPS, .Net, Java, C#.
- Knowledge or experience in state contracting, procurement and the budget process.
The California Department of Social Services (DSS) is seeking an enterprise architect (IT Specialist III) to lead the department’s enterprise architecture capability. The incumbent will work closely with program and technology teams to document business capability goals and identify strategies for closing technology gaps to meet those goals.
According to the job posting and duty statement, the essential functions of this position include:
- Lead, plan, organize, direct, monitor and control the most complex activities of DSS’s enterprise architecture (EA) capability.
- Develop and maintain policies, processes, standards and procedures as they relate to EA.
- Lead the Architectural Review Board and work to evaluate proposals and recommend appropriate solutions. Develop tactical plans to meet and establish goals and objectives to support DSS’ priorities as established by the Architectural Review Board.
- Facilitate the development, management and governance of current and future state enterprise architectures (i.e. ,business, data, service/application and technology) based upon strategic business direction.
- Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state plans, and ensure alignment with IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
The monthly salary range for this role is $8,700 to $11,659, and the application deadline is Nov. 2.
