The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking a director (Career Executive Assignment) for the Enterprise Services Bureau. The incumbent’s responsibilities include establishing “a strategic vision for the coordinated planning, acquisition, and development of cost-effective information technology solutions to business problems.”
“The incumbent is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the activities of the two branches within the Enterprise Services Bureau (ESB),” the job posting says. “The Enterprise Support Branch maintains the department’s computing applications and shared environments, and provides desktop, information technology (IT), and device support to the department’s legal, executive and administrative divisions. The Project Management and Procurement Branch provides department-wide oversight for IT purchases and contracts and IT project coordination and management services, and provides independent IT project oversight.”
In addition, the director “is responsible for advocating legislative solutions and representing the bureau and division before the Legislature, governmental agencies, and public and private organizations,” the posting says. “As a member of the executive staff, the bureau director plays an active role in long-range planning and provides much of the technical direction in establishing policies and procedures.”
Desirable qualifications include:
- Experience with managing and supervising a large, highly technical, and interdisciplinary team.
- Experience with developing and implementing IT strategies at the organization level.
- Experience serving as a liaison between a large governmental agency, other state and federal agencies, professional law enforcement agencies, and/or other associations.
- Experience with IT strategic planning efforts intended to mitigate risk to the organization, increase efficiency, or eliminate duplication of efforts.
- Experience developing and implementing policies related to the areas of data processing and the criminal justice IT systems.
- Experience overseeing the planning, implementation, and coordination of IT projects interfacing with other oversight organizations, including the review of state IT purchasing requests and contracts.
More information about the position can be found in the duty statement. The monthly salary range is $11,102 to $13,226, and the application deadline is Aug. 7.
The California Air Resources Board is seeking chiefs (IT Manager II) to oversee two branches: the IT and Operations and Support Branch (ITOSB) and the System Development and Support Branch (SDSB).
The ITOSB chief, reporting to the chief information officer, will lead the Riverside Technical Support Section, NorCal Technical Support Section, IT Communications Support Section and Enterprise Systems Management Section. The incumbent “is responsible for ensuring a high-quality, positive and customer-focused approach to delivering information technology services and operations for CARB,” the job posting says.
The chief “participates in executive-level decisions and execution of strategies to achieve the objectives in the IT Strategic Plan … and must provide in-depth knowledge and guidance of IT Service Management (ITSM/ITIL) strategies, processes, policies, project management, budget management, and best practices, and demonstrates customer centricity,” the posting says.
The chief works in the domains of Business Technology Management, IT Project Management, Client Services and System Engineering. The position has a monthly salary range of $10,421 to $12,668, and the application deadline is Friday. More information is available in the duty statement.
CARB is also seeking “a proven leader, a strong communicator, and a strategic thinker” for the SDSB chief position, which leads the Application Development Section, Application Support Section, DevOps, Networking, Enterprise IT and Solution Architecture, according to the job posting.
The SDSB chief “is responsible for ensuring a high-quality, positive and customer-focused approach to delivering information technology services and operations for CARB,” the posting says, and “ensures the alignment of technology vision with business strategy and fosters a culture of innovation and data-driven service delivery.” The incumbent will be “directly accountable for operational availability and performance of CARB/CalEPA network technologies (and) CARB applications and databases, including laboratory and modeling systems.”
The chief “will be skilled in providing architecture, development, operation, and maintenance of software systems including business assessment, user research, user-centric design, development or configuration, programming, service-oriented architecture, testing, and implementation of the business application services,” the posting says. “The incumbent will direct the architecture dealing with multi-cloud solutions, design, configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems discovery as well as planning, design, configuration, administration, and continued operation of a defined system.”
Desirable qualifications include:
- A high degree of experience and knowledge in the practices, principles, and techniques of application development, release change management, application support, citizen development, network, and solution architecture.
- Experience researching and monitoring innovative and best practice technologies.
- Five or more years of experience supervising a system development and support team.
- Two or more years of experience in using software development tools and resource management tools, including Azure and Jira.
- Knowledge and experience in the creation and maintenance of technical knowledge base documentation and tools.
- Demonstrated knowledge and ability to perform IT governance activities, contract and vendor management, and customer relationship management.
- Experience managing IT projects.
- Highly collaborative, with keen ability to listen to other perspectives and work as a team to identify and deliver solutions.
This position, which reports to the CIO, has a monthly salary range of $10,421 to $12,668, and the application deadline is Friday. More details are available in the duty statement.
