The CTO will report to FTB’s chief information officer and oversee the Chief Technologist Office, which includes the Enterprise Architecture Office and Planning Services functions.
“The CTO is responsible for transformation efforts while moving the FTB towards cloud-based infrastructures where appropriate, and establishing strategic direction and departmental standards for software, hardware, tool sets, and platforms,” the job posting says. “The CTO actively participates in departmental decision-making with respect to internal business operations and participates as a member of the department’s governance process and executive team participating in departmental decision-making and policy development by providing recommendations on sensitive, critical and legislative mandates ensuring the FTB’s ability to provide critical services to California’s taxpayers.”
Among the list of desirable qualifications are these:
- Ability to think in an enterprise manner and consider the overall impact to the department when planning programs, managing operations and making decisions.
- Skill to evaluate the costs, benefits, risk implications and chances for success when considering alternatives.
- Ability to recognize and value the importance of a customer-centric organization that values the role of all internal and external customers.
- Knowledge of software development methodologies, infrastructure components, the interoperability of technology, and how it supports departmental goals.
- Experience with managing large IT contracts including managing vendor performance, monitoring successful completion of objectives and deliverables, and addressing issues towards a positive outcome.
The essential functions of this position, according to the duty statement, include:
- Plans, develops and implements policies, procedures and compliance related to IT oversight. (30 percent)
- Develops long-term IT strategy of where the department needs to be and how technology can help innovate and further that strategy, including developing and implementing sensitive and complex policies and procedures that will establish FTB’s IT direction. (25 percent)
- Exercises independence and authority in developing, implementing, directing and evaluating FTB’s statewide policies relative to enterprise architecture and its direct impact to the Technology Services Division and the enterprise. (25 percent)
- Participates in FTB’s governance process and serves on the executive management team, providing critical and highly sensitive recommendations to the CIO and other senior managers including policy development in support of Security Information Management (SIM) and Software Asset Management (SAM) directives. (15 percent)
- Oversees development of performance measures, which include costs, revenues and volumes, and directs the monitoring and evaluating of these elements to reduce overhead and increase revenue. In the event of the CIO’s absence, the incumbent may be called upon to act on the CIO’s behalf. (5 percent)
The monthly salary range for this role is $11,435 to $13,623, and the application deadline is Feb. 1.
