About The Position
Please note: The salary range above represents the earning potential for this position. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $113,715.00 to $200,808.00, based on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.
Who We Are
The mission of the Department of Technology and Enterprise Business Solutions (TEBS) is to be responsive, collaborative, and innovative in providing technology 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.
Who We Are Looking For
The Chief Technology Officer, 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 improving innovation across Montgomery County Government by designing and leading highly visible initiatives that align with the TEBS mission. The position is highly technical and managerial, supporting the direction of innovative technologies and supervising 11 technical staff who provide significant services to improve business resilience. The incumbent must understand the value of innovation and continuously improve the Enterprise's innovation programs.
What You'll Be Doing
Major Duties Include:
- Manage the execution of innovation programs for the TEBS Office of Strategic Partnerships and direct change management detailed activities for those efforts.
- Track and assess innovation projects to balance the innovation portfolio.
- Bridge the gap between departmental business partners and technology solution providers to accomplish a high level of quality system functionality.
- Direct planning to ensure alignment of required goals with 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.
- Provide consultative services and build collaborative partnerships with departments in the innovation projects.
- Own and direct the plan to exploit low-code platforms to meet aggressive application delivery timelines and enable faster, iterative updates, while deploying to customer end users.
- Directs the use of various project methodologies to deploy innovative applications.
- 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.
- Lead practices for the transfer of projects to IT planning and business units.
- Reports to executive leadership regarding project status, risk and uncertainty, budget, and vulnerabilities to protect the County budget and investments.
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight for multiple technology teams reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer. Ensure effective management and execution of enterprise-wide technology initiatives to align with organizational goals and deliver measurable impact.
This position offers a hybrid work schedule, allowing employees to work both remotely and on-site as determined by the department’s operational needs.
A criminal background (and credit history) check will be conducted on the selected candidate prior to appointment and will be a significant factor in the hiring decision.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: Seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in Information Technology (IT), of which three (3) years were in a supervisory or executive capacity.
Note: The term “executive” is further defined as a high echelon or high-level position in an organization that is assigned technical research, management advisory services responsibilities, or policy-making duties and responsibilities that exerts considerable influence on organizational policy, plans, and operations through technical research, management advisory services, and/or policy-making duties and responsibilities
Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree.
Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
Medical Protocol : This position requires completion of a pre-employment Medical History Form to assess your ability to safely perform the essential duties of the role.
Financial Disclosure Statement: This position is designated as one that requires filing a Financial Disclosure Statement and you will be required to disclose information about your financial affairs.
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
All Applicants will be reviewed by the Office of Human Resources (OHR) for minimum qualifications. Those applicants who meet minimum qualifications will be rated “Qualified,” placed on the Referred List, and may be considered for an interview.
- Proven experience supporting innovative technologies that enhance business resilience.
- Demonstrated ability to improve and optimize innovation programs.
- Experience in designing and leading high-visibility innovation initiatives.
- Track record of successfully replacing legacy systems with modern solutions.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at Hiring@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law : Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
