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Houston Recruiting to Fill Specialty Positions

The city of Houston is looking to hire a senior staff analyst to oversee capital projects and a senior IT project manager to join its airport program management office.

Houston, Texas, skyline.
Houston, Texas, skyline.
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The city of Houston is seeking to fill two IT-related positions.

First is a senior staff analyst position overseeing capital projects. Candidates applying for the role will be responsible for strategizing, developing and executing business process workflow automation, data analytics and application development using Microsoft’s Power Platform and other technology.

Other job responsibilities include:

  • Developing and implementing solutions using the Microsoft 365 suite (i.e., SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, MS Teams and Power BI)
  • Analyzing business problems, identifying and articulating requirements to support system and process improvements and identifying alternative technical solutions
  • Developing reports and dashboards with data using visualization software such as Tableau or Power BI
  • Overseeing developing, analyzing and implementing new and existing solutions and investigating, troubleshooting and resolving all other complex technical issues
  • Drawing on professional experiences to develop, maintain, collect and distribute important materials such as project plans, tracking spreadsheets, metrics and documentation
  • Identifying, evaluating and documenting process improvement opportunities that increase productivity, efficiency, quality and customer satisfaction
  • Developing a business requirements document, testing scripts for user acceptance testing and training materials for newly developed system and process enhancements

Minimum requirements for the job include having a bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration or a related field and five years of professional administrative, financial or analytical experience.

The position has a yearly salary range of $91,703.30 to $105,343.94.

Second is a senior IT project manager position within the Houston Airport System's IT program management office (PMO). PMO oversees all technology systems and information related to Houston’s airports.

Job responsibilities include:

  • Managing mission-critical IT projects ranging between $2 million and $5 million with limited oversight
  • Overseeing aviation-specialized solution deployment, systems change management and configuration management for systems used by 2,000 to 5,000 users
  • Managing passenger-facing IT infrastructure, cloud environment and applications for 60 million passengers per year
  • Overseeing mission-critical government regulatory IT projects
  • Serving as a single point of contact for IT enterprise projects from original concept through final implementation
  • Coordinating project team resources representing multiple internal and external stakeholders and technology functional areas
  • Ensuring airport enterprise technology projects are delivered within the defined scope, quality, schedule and cost

Minimum requirements for the job include having a bachelor’s degree in technology project management, management and information systems, computer science or a closely related field, and more than 10 years of directly applicable experience.

The position has a yearly salary range of $83,642 to $130,000.
Katya Maruri is an Orlando-based e.Republic staff writer. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in global strategic communications from Florida International University.