Chief Technology Officer

About the Position

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.

Major Duties Include:

• Manage the execution of innovation programs for the TEBS Office of Strategic Partnerships and direct change management activities.
• Track and assess innovation projects to balance the innovation portfolio.
• Bridge the gap between departmental business partners and technology solution providers.
• Direct planning to ensure alignment of required goals with enterprise business demands.
• Govern the changing and complex business process management (BPM) framework for customer engagement.
• Own and direct the plan to exploit low-code platforms to meet aggressive application delivery timelines.
• Direct 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.
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for multiple technology teams reporting directly to the CTO.
• Reports to executive leadership regarding project status, risk and uncertainty, budget, and vulnerabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in Information Technology (IT), of which three (3) years were in a supervisory or executive capacity.
• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule, allowing employees to work both remotely and on-site.