Agency Information Technology Manager

Join us at the State of Connecticut, Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) where our mission is to provide accounting and financial services, to administer employee and retiree benefits, to develop accounting policy and exercise accounting oversight, and to prepare financial reports for state, federal and municipal governments and the public.

We have an exciting opportunity currently available for an Agency IT Manager. This position will be responsible for managing the Core-CT HRMS, CRM and Financial PeopleSoft application development teams and associated resources;

Could this person be you?

This full-time position is Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week. This is a competitive position.

**NEW EMPLOYEES HIRED INTO STATE SERVICE ARE HIRED AT THE MINIMUM SALARY**

All applicants must include a resume within the “Resume Tab” of their JobAps application. Note: At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation to support their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a cover letter, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, college transcripts, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency. Questions about the required documents should be directed to the hiring agency's Human Resources Unit

Questions about the required documents should be directed to the hiring agency's Human Resources Unit by contacting Ginger Frasca at ginger.frasca@ct.gov

In a constitutional office this class is accountable for the management and direction of all agency information technology systems, applications development, systems maintenance and related functions.

In this position some of the duties would include:

•Responsible to analyze, review and approve code changes to ensure overall system reliability, security and performance;
•Manage the staff and the processes associated with data integration objectives and data exchanges between Core-CT and other agencies and business partners.
•Responsible for meeting information technology goals, project timelines and critical HRMS and Financial processing objectives;
•Establish priorities for development activities and information technology projects in accordance with Agency requirements and goals;
•Work with Agency management and staff to ensure all application and development needs and objectives are met;
•Responsible for overall application quality; Evaluates application development requests, assesses complexity;
•Responsible for assigning work, resolving priorities, and providing daily direction for development staff and coordinating work across the teams;
•Ensure application change is properly documented and tested and meets the specified requirements;
•Reviews and approve SQL updates to production and test data as appropriate;
•Provides expert guidance and advice to the IT staff and management on all enhancements/modifications to the HRMS, Payroll, Benefits and Pension systems;
•Provide status reports on development status, production issues and overall project goals to upper management;
•Work with HRMS Team and DAS/BEST Operations Management to establish daily batch processing schedules and to ensure batch processes are monitored and any issues are addressed;
•Work with Technical team and DBA’s to tune application performance as required;
•Monitor staff interaction with Core-CT security team to ensure application security, roles and permission lists are properly maintained;
•Review and coordinate application setup and configuration changes to ensure consistently across all environments;
•Ensure appropriate data protection practices and encryption requirements are met;
•Manage time and attendance for development staff and consultant resources;
•Participate in the performance reviews of staff and other administrative tasks.

Considerable knowledge of and ability to apply management principles and techniques; considerable knowledge of relevant state and federal laws, statutues and regulations; considerable knowledge of information technology methods, techniques and equipment; considerable interpersonal skills; considerable oral and written communication skills; considerable ability to analyze information technology system problems and implement effective solutions.

Ten (10) years of experience in computer or network operations, systems development, information technology analysis and planning.

Three (3) years of the General Experience must have been in a lead capacity.

NOTE: For State Employees this is interpreted at the level of an Information Technology Analyst 3.

1. College training in management information systems, computer science or information technology related area may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor's degree.
   
2. A Master's degree in management information systems, computer science or electrical engineering may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

•Three (3) years’ experience supervising or managing application development projects in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment - PeopleSoft preferred;
•Experience managing application development programs and associated staff;
•Experience with the PeopleSoft HRMS, CRM or Finance 9.2 application environments and the PeopleTools development tool-set;
•Functional knowledge and proficiency with PeopleTools, Application Designer and DataMover;
•Proven project management, leadership and communication skills;
•Proficiency with the Microsoft Windows 10 and the Microsoft Office Suite or Office 365;
•Experience managing PeopleSoft applications and associated application data in an Oracle 12 database environment;
•Strong SQL development skills and In-depth knowledge of Oracle table structures, table partitions and DBLinks;
•Experience with the PeopleSoft HRMS or Finance 9.2 application or other ERP applications;
•Experience with Oracle WebLogic and Java based technologies. Knowledge of Web application running in a load balanced environment;
•Experience with application change control best practices, code management and version control tools;
•Experience with Change Management best practices and coordinating transition to new technologies;
•Experience with Cloud based service models.

AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.