Information Technology Specialist III

Join CAL FIRE; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join CAL FIRE is seeking an Information Technology Specialist III to provide strategic technical leadership and governance across multiple IT disciplines within California state service. Incumbents influence enterprise direction, policy, and architecture, guiding the most critical projects where errors could impact operations.

They develop standards, policies, and methodologies; enforce security controls; and coordinate cross-department IT initiatives to maintain high performance and compliance.

Qualifications

• General qualifications per state regulations for IT leadership roles.
• Experience advising management and executive staff on governance and policy.
• Ability to develop enterprise IT architecture direction and standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical leadership across IT domains (Software Engineering, Information Security, IT Project Management, System Engineering).
• Develop enterprise IT architecture direction and advise executives on governance and policy.
• Lead or coordinate critical projects, set objectives, and document performance and capacity reports.

Job description

00101415 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST III

This is the expert advisor level. Under administrative direction, incumbents demonstrate strategic technical leadership, influence, and expertise that drive the organization's use of technology toward constant improvements. Incumbents represent the highest level of expertise available in state service within the Software Engineering, Information Security Engineering, Information Technology Project Management, or System Engineering domains. Incumbents develop the enterprise information technology architecture direction of the organization and advise management and executive level staff on governance and policy that support forward movement. Incumbents may have extensive decision-making authority and direct the most critical/complex projects where the consequence of error may have a serious detrimental effect on the operating efficiency of the organization.

Incumbents may: develop policies and procedures; develop multi-departmental systems; plan, develop, and document policies, requirements, and methodologies; enforce compliance with policies and requirements, and make recommendations; implement security and privacy controls across multiple information technology disciplines; direct or coordinate duties and responsibilities to project personnel; negotiate with project stakeholders or suppliers; conduct presentations or briefings to executive management; guide the development and elaboration of plans and artifacts; provide leadership, guidance, training, and support to project team members; determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated; develop and analyze performance and capacity reports; develop and modify technical specifications; develop and implement standards and controls; contribute in the planning of the overall organizational information technology strategy; design, implement, and maintain system architecture across multiple platforms; and coordinate infrastructure system design, modification, upgrade, and implementation.

Preferred or Desirable Qualifications

For specific positions, departments may specify knowledge, experience, or specific training in one or more of the six identified domains.

All employees must have general qualifications as described by California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 172.

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