Technology Manager; Senior Information Technology Specialist, Grade N28

Please note:
The salary range above represents this position’s earning potential. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $97,540 to $148,018, based on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

The mission of the Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD) Emergency Communications Center is to answer and process emergency and non-emergency calls requesting public safety response. This is accomplished using several technical systems of hardware and software with the goal of providing customers, callers and field personnel, with professional responses to public safety requests for service.

MCPD seeks a highly skilled and experienced Information Technology professional for the position of Senior Information Technology Specialist. This position is a hybrid role of application and systems integration, development, and infrastructure management.

The ideal candidate will have excellent oral and written communication skills and be detail oriented. The candidate must be able to meet deadlines and follow through with multiple projects simultaneously and have the ability to work independently to perform a variety of challenging and complex actions.

• Experience working in an IT environment with stringent security controls, and focus on quality, testing and error free deployments.
• Knowledge of regulations, laws, and 9-1-1 industry best practices specific to 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers.
• Experience in systems integration, database management, and implementation and backout plans.
• Knowledge of applications development, software maintenance, support and programming, database development and management, PC support, installation, configuration and maintenance, LAN/WAN configuration and maintenance, user training and support and security administration.
• Skilled in project management with ability to lead teams, develop requirements, and provide technical expertise on developing and implementing automated system projects.
• Develop end user instruction for entry level and tenured 9-1-1 personnel for a variety of technical systems.

Employee will be responsible for managing the workload and leading a team of specialists and technicians who directly work with operational systems critical to processing and dispatching 9-1-1 and non-emergency calls, including other critical ancillary 9-1-1 emergency communication center systems.

The Senior IT Specialist must possess strong knowledge of data systems and security; must have experience in strategies for managing the integration of technologies and systems and must have experience with the support of servers, relational databases, and strategies for security across multiple databases and servers. Experience with public safety network architecture, including ESInet and Next-Generation 911 (NG911) standards, ESRI ArcGIS, MS Power Apps, .Net

Web apps, forms and workflows in SharePoint, software development life cycle, and managing user accounts and security groups in Active Directory, as well as familiarity with role-based security configuration and access controls within 911-related or public safety systems.

This Sr. IT Specialist position will:

• Provide day to day direction to 5 subordinate staff subject matter experts, including 1 contractor, with respect to implementation and support of critical 9-1-1 center systems and applications.
• Follow County development and deployment processes and procedures and will report directly to the Deputy Director of Support in the Emergency Communications Center.
• Participate in deployments and upgrades of critical systems as well as directing or overseeing testing of upgrades, new technology programs or systems for all 9-1-1 related systems.
• Be involved in scoping technologies and…