Chief Information Officer, Texas McCombs

University of Texas at Austin; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Texas at Austin, serving the Texas McCombs School of Business, seeks a Chief Information Officer to lead McCombs Technology Solutions. The role directs technology strategy, governance, and a broad portfolio including data, AI, and security.

Reporting to senior leaders, you will facilitate modernization, risk management, and enterprise collaboration across UT Austin. The CIO drives innovation, manages budgets and vendors, mentors staff, and partners with campus IT functions to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of progressively responsible information technology leadership experience, including significant responsibility for technology strategy, staff, budgets, vendors, and major technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading a broad technology organization or portfolio spanning several areas such as application development, data and analytics, infrastructure, end user services, cybersecurity, cloud services, or technology planning.
• Experience developing and executing technology strategy and leading significant modernization, digital transformation, systems implementation, or organizational change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing technology professionals and leaders, including staff development, performance management, and organizational planning.
• Experience with technology budgeting, vendor management, contracting, procurement, and major technology investments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, technology risk management, business continuity, data management, and IT governance.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, communicate complex technology issues to nontechnical audiences, and make sound recommendations involving cost, risk, and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Technology Strategy, Governance, and Executive Advisory: Establish and execute McCombs’ technology strategy in alignment with school and university goals. Advise the Dean, COO, and senior leaders on technology investments, risks, opportunities, and trends. Lead the McCombs Technology Governance Process and oversee the technology project portfolio, prioritizing initiatives by institutional value, cost, risk, and sustainability.
• Technology Operations and Academic Technology Support: Provide executive oversight for technology operations, end user support, device lifecycle management, school managed infrastructure, and classroom and audiovisual technology. Support faculty technical needs for teaching and research, including specialized software, cloud environments, datasets, and AI platforms.
• Applications, Data, Modernization, AI, and Innovation: Oversee application development, databases, reporting, analytics, and integrations. Set priorities for modernizing legacy systems, reducing technical debt, and addressing single points of failure.
• Information Security, Risk, and Resilience: Partner with UT Austin Information Security Office to protect McCombs systems and data. Oversee vulnerability remediation, risk assessment, compliance, incident coordination, and security awareness.
• Organizational, Financial, and Vendor Leadership: Lead MTS, including Applications and Data, Technology Operations, Audio/Visual Technology, and Technology Planning and Strategy. Set performance expectations and service standards; recruit, develop, and retain staff and build depth through cross training and succession planning.
• Other duties as assigned in support of the mission and priorities of the McCombs School of Business.

Skills

Technology leadership

Strategic planning

Budget management

Vendor management

Communication with executives

Information security governance

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Chief Information Officer, Texas McCombs

Hiring Department: Red McCombs School of Business

Position Open To: All Applicants

Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40

FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA

Earliest Start Date: Immediately

Position Duration: Expected to Continue Until Aug 31, 2027

Location: UT MAIN CAMPUS

Job Details

General Notes

Texas McCombs is a top business school at the center of one of the most innovative cities in the U.S. The McCombs community champions hands on experiences alongside the ground breaking research and thought leadership of a world class faculty. The collaborative spirit and enterprising drive of the Longhorn alumni network, one of the largest university networks in the world, is embedded in our culture, making us human centered and future focused in all our endeavors. We are shaping those who will shape tomorrow, and solving challenging problems while remaining committed to creating a community that is dynamic, supportive, and challenging. What starts here really does change the world. For more information about Texas McCombs please visit: https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/

Purpose

The Chief Information Officer is the senior information technology executive for the McCombs School of Business. Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean for Business Affairs and Chief Operating Officer, the CIO leads McCombs Technology Solutions (MTS), sets the school’s technology strategy, priorities, and investments, and advises the Dean and senior leaders on technology opportunities, risk, modernization, data, and artificial intelligence. The CIO provides executive leadership for technology operations, application development and data services, classroom and audiovisual technology, technology governance and project portfolio management, information security coordination, and technology contracting. The CIO represents McCombs within UT Austin’s federated technology environment and works closely with Enterprise Technology, the Information Security Office, the Office of Academic Technology, and the McCombs Office of Instructional Innovation.

Responsibilities

• Technology Strategy, Governance, and Executive Advisory. Establish and execute McCombs’ technology strategy in alignment with school and university goals. Advise the Dean, COO, and senior leaders on technology investments, risks, opportunities, and trends. Lead the McCombs Technology Governance Process and oversee the technology project portfolio, prioritizing initiatives by institutional value, cost, risk, and sustainability. Represent McCombs in university technology planning and governance.


• Technology Operations and Academic Technology Support. Provide executive oversight for technology operations, end user support, device lifecycle management, school managed infrastructure, and classroom and audiovisual technology. Support faculty technical needs for teaching and research, including specialized software, cloud environments, datasets, and AI platforms. Partner with the Office of Instructional Innovation, which leads pedagogy and instructional design, while MTS provides the supporting technical platforms and support.


• Applications, Data, Modernization, AI, and Innovation. Oversee application development, databases, reporting, analytics, and integrations. Set priorities for modernizing legacy systems, reducing technical debt, and addressing single points of failure. Partner with data owners to improve data governance, quality, and access. Lead McCombs’ adoption of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, with practices that address security, privacy, compliance, cost, and long term support.


• Information Security, Risk, and Resilience. Partner with the UT Austin Information Security Office to protect McCombs systems and data. Oversee vulnerability remediation, risk assessment, compliance, incident coordination, and security awareness. Communicate material technology risks and recommended actions to senior leadership, and strengthen business continuity for critical systems.


• Organizational, Financial, and Vendor Leadership. Lead MTS, including Applications and Data, Technology Operations, Audio/Visual Technology, and Technology Planning and Strategy. Set performance expectations and service standards; recruit, develop, and retain staff and build depth through cross training and succession planning. Oversee technology budgets, licensing, contracts, procurement, and vendor relationships in partnership with McCombs Financial Affairs, UT Procurement, and Legal Affairs.


• Other duties as assigned in support of the mission and priorities of the McCombs School of Business.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of progressively responsible information technology leadership experience, including significant responsibility for technology strategy, staff, budgets, vendors, and major technology initiatives.


• Demonstrated experience leading a broad technology organization or portfolio spanning several areas such as application development, data and analytics, infrastructure, end user services, cybersecurity, cloud services, or technology planning.


• Experience developing and executing technology strategy and leading significant modernization, digital transformation, systems implementation, or organizational change initiatives.


• Demonstrated experience managing technology professionals and leaders, including staff development, performance management, and organizational planning.


• Experience with technology budgeting, vendor management, contracting, procurement, and major technology investments.


• Knowledge of cybersecurity, technology risk management, business continuity, data management, and IT governance.


• Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, communicate complex technology issues to nontechnical audiences, and make sound recommendations involving cost, risk, and priorities.


• Demonstrated success working with varied stakeholders and leading through influence in a complex organization.


• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving as a CIO, CTO, senior technology executive, or in a comparable enterprise technology leadership role.


• Experience leading technology in higher education, government, another public institution, or a similarly complex, mission driven organization, particularly within Texas.


• Experience working within a federated or decentralized technology environment.


• Experience with application development, system integration, data and analytics, enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, and project portfolio management.


• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications or reducing significant technical debt.


• Experience establishing or leading technology governance and enterprise project prioritization processes.


• Experience developing organizational approaches to artificial intelligence or other emerging technologies.


• Experience supporting technology requirements for academic instruction or research.


• Experience with University of Texas policies, procedures, and administrative systems.

Salary Range

• OPEN

Working Conditions

• Works in standard office conditions.


• Some evening and weekend hours may be required for system incidents, critical deadlines, and school or industry events.


• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.


• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. This position is not eligible for sponsorship of work visas.


• This is an Austin, TX based position

Required Materials

• Resume/CV


• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor


• Letter of interest

Employment Eligibility

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

Pay Transparency

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Employment Eligibility Verification

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

E-Verify

The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:

• E-Verify Poster (English and Spanish) [PDF]


• Right to Work Poster (English) [PDF]


• Right to Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]

Compliance

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.