INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST II

About the role

The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is a member of the boards, departments, and offices (BDOs) within the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA). Our mission is to protect California's people, communities, and environment from toxic substances, enhance economic vitality by restoring contaminated land, and compel manufacturers to make safer consumer products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis of business and operating models, current trends, and information technology to ensure alignment to DTSC’s strategic goals, direction, and architecture.
• Promote the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation.
• Build the Enterprise Architect (EA) practice to become an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Establish EA services, practices, standards, and processes for key stakeholders.
• Analyze the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Perform gap analyses and/or develop IT roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape.

Requirements

We look for candidates with experience performing enterprise architecture in business, data, application, and technology domains and design work, including documenting relationships between business capabilities, use cases, processes, services, models, and requirements that drive application, data, and technology design, requirements, and solutions for enterprise initiatives such as building shared services, leading legacy system modernization or migration initiatives.

Qualifications

Proven track record of defining technical standards, creating governance frameworks, and establishing Minimal Viable Architectures (MVA) to accelerate project delivery while managing technical debt.

• Experience in technology scouting, conducting formal vendor/tool evaluations (RFPs/RFIs), and performing Proofs of Concept (PoCs) for emerging technologies through leading trial testing of alternative solutions and products.
• Experience in architecting systems using a combination of Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, or Product-Centric delivery frameworks, collaborating closely with cross-functional dev teams, DevOps engineers, and product managers.
• Understanding of modern enterprise data architecture, including cloud data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake), real-time data integration/CDC, data governance frameworks, and data virtualization.

Skills

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Benefits

The State of California is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

Pay

$8,625.00 - $11,557.00

Schedule

Hybrid