Innovation & Infrastructure Manager

Essential Functions

• Serve as the Innovation & Infrastructure Manager for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) supporting the Department of Early Childhood (IDEC), managing the architectural landscape and innovation roadmap in collaboration with DoIT Enterprise Architecture and overseeing the design of cloud‑native architectures.
• Provide technical oversight of DoIT/IDEC applications and infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and high‑performing environments aligned with DoIT/IDECs technology strategy and architectural standards.
• Collaborate with DoIT Enterprise Architecture and IDEC product management to guide the selection of applications, platforms, and digital services.
• Provide strategic leadership for cloud and innovation management, ensuring cost‑effective scalability, optimal performance, and alignment with IDECs technology strategy and budget priorities.
• Supervise contractual staff.
• Keep abreast of new developments in digital services, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence through online training platforms, meetings, training sessions, seminars, vendor demos, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

• Completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in software engineering, cloud computing, network engineering, computer science, or directly related fields.
• Prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in the management of services designed with modern data and cloud infrastructures.