Chief Technology Officer

The City of Philadelphia information technology operations are at an exciting crossroads. Years of effort and capital investments has resulted in significant legacy system modernizations. We have built up software and UX engineering teams to create best in class digital services for diverse audiences and business needs. We have demonstrated the value of security investments and have scaled to defend against cyberattacks to support an onprem workforce. We have setup strong governance frameworks to enable consistent and reliable decision making in a complex federated IT environment serving multiple lines of business and government operations. 

After years of growth and achievements the Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT) nonetheless continues to need to lay the foundations for comprehensive road mapping of technology to guide the next wave of modernizations and innovations. OIT is hiring for a Deputy CIO to act as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who can both envision the near and longterm futures draft clear actions plans and lead on the implementation of those plans in collaboration with the CIO and executive team. This is simultaneously both a strategic and operational role.

The CTO will develop multiple strategic technology initiatives and related plans to create and deliver on one or more technology roadmap(s).   In some cases the role requires leading from behind as implementation steps must be carried out by other IT teams and leaders (e.g. networking the MSO365 engineering team departmental IT units). In other cases the CTO must take the lead in organizing the resources within their portfolio to enact strategies and direct solution partners to achieve sustainable results as defined in the CTO technology roadmap. The CTO must also define and manage technology strategy in less than perfect situations and seek the optimal rather than perfect path to success due to budget constraints lack of business capacity or the complexities of a politically and technically federated ecosystem of IT environments. 

Essential Functions

• Provide leadership to a portfolio of program directors for Enterprise Architecture Software Engineering Digital Services Enterprise Database Operations and Document Management.
• Define a longterm technology strategy for OIT that aligns with citys business (departmental) operations and with an emphasis on life cycle management management of risk meaningful utilization and adoption innovation and welldefined support models.
• Create midterm strategic initiatives related project plans and pertinent technology roadmap(s) in collaboration with the appropriate deputy CIOs and specifically with the Chief Information Security Officer for these key areas:                                                                              life cycle management of enterprise platforms and endpoints;                                          enterprise disaster recovery backups and storage;                                                                migration of enterprise databases from legacy to elastic cloud platforms;                                and                                                                                                                                                    technical administration and operation of ERP and HCM platforms
• Support a shared services model for use of enterprise Cloud resources (AWS and Azure) across business units for backup and recovery virtualization content management full stack development hosting and delivery of digital services etc. Responsible for the Citys Data Centers potential HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) and Virtual Environments (VMware ESXi 8.0.
• Advance the capacity of the enterprise architecture team and solutioning engineers to quickly assess technical requirements and provide clear direction and consultation on projects and procurements proposed by departments. Affirm OITs architecture and security standards while balancing those against the needs and goals of the business owner.
• Coordinate with the directors of enterprise architecture and database operations and Chief Data Officer to affirm OITs data governance vision of no silos least friction but secure data access and continue to execute on a plan to migrate from onprem legacy RDBMS to elastic lower total cost of ownership highly interoperable Cloud database platforms as appropriate.
• Facilitate the modernization of the Citys legacy systems and reduce the technology debt (IBM Mainframe and other legacy systems).
• Build relationships with departmental leadership who need to adopt the CTOs technology strategies and buy into the benefits of risk reduction and productivity offered by enterprise solutions vs. shadow IT that is difficult to support and secure.

Competencies Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Prior experience in crafting technology strategy articulating a vision and implementing technology roadmaps within large organizations with multiple lines of business operations.
• Hands on experience with directing enterprise system operations including Cloud and data center full stack engineering infrastructure application and database tiers access controls and production support.
• Experience directing or having oversight of enterprise database (Oracle or MS SQL) operations ERPs HCM and CRM solutions and having modernized or migrated one or more systems from legacy on prem environment to cloud or hybrid cloud platforms including the technical and change management impacts on business operations. 
• Experience with migration efforts from private cloud (Vmware) to public cloud providers (GCP AWS Azure).
• Excellent communication (written and verbal).
• Experience in largescale project planning setting and meeting goals setting timelines updating managers and team members on status etc.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks common within municipal government entities like HIPAA CJIS and PCI.
• Executive leadership experience in guiding inspiring and setting expectations for accountability and success among team leaders and their team members.
• Prior experience dealing with a critical strategic and operational role in a resource constrained environment will be helpful
• Ability to create and maintain good working relationships and collaborations with an array of personality types and business interests.

Qualifications :

Five years of relevant professional experience required in role of a CTO chief of engineering director of solution architecture IT operations director ERP technology director or equivalent.

Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. Masters degree is preferred.

Additional Information :

Salary Not to Exceed: $175000

Starting salary to be determined based on experience and qualifications. 

Important: To apply candidates must provide a cover letter and a resume.

Work Setting: inperson (onsite)

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime