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2 Governments Recruiting Leaders for Business Solutions, Business Intelligence

Both are management positions, and both have oversight over IT and functions relating to lines of business within the respective agencies.

Two large government entities in the state are recruiting for executive positions relating to business solutions and business intelligence.

The city of San Jose is recruiting for a deputy chief information officer for its Business Solutions Division, which city officials say is “in the midst of a strategic rebuild,” and to serve on the city’s IT Executive Staff.

“The position is critical in helping the city achieve ambitious goals to innovate, accelerate delivery of solutions, and support deep collaboration to provide remarkable value to city customers,” says the notice announcing the recruitment. “The current portfolio includes collaboration, productivity, database administration and enterprise resource planning. Additionally, the city will see continued growth in its Smart Cities and Internet-of-Things solutions portfolios in the coming years. This IT leader will play a key role in helping to define those paths.”

The deputy CIO will prepare the Business Solutions Division team for future IT initiatives, focusing on:

  • Superior customer experience, usability, user adoption and change management;
  • Sustainable systems through strong strategic and technical planning; and
  • Security and interoperability through identity, data, multi-cloud, and application service integrations.
“The city practices agile and waterfall project management, reporting to an executive scrum of scrums, matching the appropriate methods to the initiative,” the post says. “The Business Solutions Deputy CIO oversees a team of approximately 30 contributors and a portfolio of over 140 main business applications and growing. The team oversees a technical environment consisting of PeopleSoft HCM/Payroll; Cayenta FMS; Taleo; Hyperion; Oracle and MSSQL databases; Office 365 and SharePoint; Azure solutions; enterprise reporting and data visualization; and database administration services.”

The recruitment is ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. The annual salary range for the position is $120,400.20 to $187,546.96.  

The second position is with the state Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), which is recruiting for a chief of the Business Intelligence Division (classified as an IT Manager I position).

“Our goal is to be the best and most innovative technology office within the State of California!” says the job posting.

Reporting to the chief technology officer in the Office of Technology and Innovation, the division chief will plan, organize, control and lead the unit responsible for the delivery of business intelligence analytics and enterprise reporting services to the department.

The division uses MarkLogic data integration platform and data lake, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Microsoft SQL Server Integration/Reporting/Analysis services, and Tableau, “with the goal of leveraging DMHC data assets to provide insight to the offices of DMHC.”

The division chief “will also be primarily responsible for completing the establishment of Data Governance and Master Data Management. The candidate will also serve in an advisory role as enterprise architect in assisting the chief technology officer (CTO) and the chief of the Enterprise Applications Division to modernize enterprise application and database infrastructures to insure alignment with the department’s strategic plan, and the goals and objectives of the Business Intelligence Division.”

The application deadline for the position is July 19, and the posting includes a link to apply. The monthly salary range is $7,376 to $9,884.

Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.