Chief Technology Officer (Manager-II), Grade M2

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The salary range above represents this position’s earning potential. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $ to $ based on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

The mission of the Department of Technology and Enterprise Business Solutions (TEBS) is to be responsive, collaborative, and innovative in providing technological solutions and services to facilitate the delivery of a wide range of services in all branches of government. The department strives to provide its solutions and consultative services in a cost-effective, timely, and high-quality fashion to reduce service times, avoid inflated costs, reduce information security risk, and improve the quality of County services through automation-assisted process improvement.

The department facilitates business and reengineering processes to improve legacy workflow and streamline services to our customers.

The Chief Technology Officer (Manager-II), Grade M2, will manage the Office of Strategic Partnerships (OSP) and be a member of the TEBS Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the CIO/Director. The position will support the direction of innovative technologies and provide critical services to improve business resilience. The incumbent is responsible for advancing innovation across Montgomery County Government by designing and leading highly visible initiatives aligned with the TEBS mission.

The position is highly technical and managerial, supporting the advancement of innovative technologies and supervising six (6) technical staff who deliver critical services to enhance business resilience. The incumbent must understand the value of innovation and continuously improve enterprise innovation programs.

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Duties Include:

• Manage the execution of innovation programs for the TEBS Office of Strategic Partnerships and establish change management details for those efforts.
• Responsible for strategic leadership, platform governance, cybersecurity oversight, integration, and modernization efforts.
• Understand and lead the use and consumption of cloud storage solutions.
• Support the AI Center of Excellence on AI innovation efforts.
• Ensure interoperability and evaluate when multi-cloud is appropriate.
• Track and assess innovation projects to balance the innovation product portfolio.
• Bridge the gap between departmental business partners and technology solution providers to accomplish a high level of quality system functionality.
• Direct the planning to ensure alignment of required goals to support enterprise business demands.
• Must be a strong strategic thinker with the ability and the skillset to see the bigger picture as well as understand the details.
• Govern the changing and complex business process management (BPM) framework for customer engagement.
• Support the implementation of Microsoft 365 solutions, including AI platforms, low code, and modernization activities.
• Understand the integration of governance, cybersecurity, integration, modernization, and operations.
• Define a county-wide cloud strategy that prioritizes Azure Government but incorporates multi-cloud or hybrid environments when needed.
• Establish governance for Azure subscriptions, cloud cost management, and ensure Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure Services.
• Own and direct the plan to exploit technical solutions to meet aggressive delivery timetables of applications and for faster iterative updates, while deploying to the customer end-users.
• Directs the use of various project methodologies to deploy innovative application deployment.
• Guide a team of technical professionals to agreed-upon strategies and an overall governance framework.
• Use various practices to rebuild and modernize applications previously built as custom monolithic systems.
• Guide the development of the portfolio of systems to be funded for replacement and remediation.
• Establish practices for co-ownership of projects with IT PMO methodology and various supporting business units.
• Reports to executive leadership regarding project status, risk, uncertainty, budget, and vulnerabilities to protect the County budget and investments.
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for…