Chief Technology Officer (District Attorney's Office)

Chief Technology Officer (District Attorney's Office)

Employment Type: 0 - Full-time Regular 
Pay Range: $139,002.00 - 208,502.00
Location: Castle Rock, CO
Overtime Exempt: Y 
Elected Office / Department: DISTRICT ATTORNEY

The Chief Technology Officer’s role is to align technology vision with business strategy by integrating company processes with the appropriate technologies. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is also responsible for all aspects of developing and implementing technology initiatives within the organization. This individual maintains existing enterprise systems, while providing direction in all technology related issues in support of information operations and core company values.  The CTO is responsible for proactive management of technical resources and personnel to provide designated services in a reliable and cost-effective manner.

Generally, the hiring range is $139,002-$173,752 annually. Qualifications, education and experience as it relates to the position will be taken into consideration when determining hiring salary.

Douglas County offers an excellent comprehensive benefit package including but not limited to: Medical/Dental/Vision/Retirement. For a more detailed overview please view the full Employee Benefit Guide. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  The following examples are illustrative only and are not intended to be all inclusive:

• Participate as a member of the senior management team in governance processes of the organization’s architecture, telecommunications, networks, programming, media, and desktops.
• Lead strategic technological planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies.
• Align technical vision with business strategy and responsible for all aspects of the development, implementation, and efficiency of a growing IT infrastructure.
• Clearly communicate to executive leadership, peers and team-members the business value of IT Operation’s investments.
• Conduct research to remain up-to-date and knowledgeable regarding industry trends and emerging technologies in anticipation of new business processes and system alterations.
• Provides strategic and tactical planning of the organization Telephony and Network Communication solutions.
• Defines functional priorities and balances resources to ensure critical business projects are delivered while maintaining a high level of ongoing IT support to internal and external customers.
• Develop and maintain an efficient IT Operations organization structure supporting the requirements of the business and IT strategies.
• Develop, implement and ensure compliance to IT Operation’s policies, standards, procedures.
• Research, analyze and evaluate advanced technologies to address evolving business needs and changing requirements.
• Allocates resources based on project prioritization and business objectives.
• Ensure continuous delivery of world-class IT services through oversight of service level agreements and monitoring of IT systems and network performance.
• Direct development and execution of a disaster recovery plan.
• Coordinates, participates in, and maintains, the District Attorney’s Office business continuance plans and ensures newly deployed systems and networks are addressed with respect to business continuance.
• Manages and provides responsible budget controls to effectively manage IT capital investments and operating performance.
• Serves as Program manager over the District Attorney’s Office IT initiatives.
• Assembles and reports metrics associated with the current and historical performance of the computing environment and the effectiveness of service delivery.
• Establish and maintain grants in support of funding technology initiatives such as Software development, Infrastructure management and Cyber Security
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:  This position is to provide leadership throughout the IT department demonstrating superior independent technology judgement requiring minimal supervision.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This position is responsible for the management and supervision of all staff members within the District Attorney’s Information Technology Division.

INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT:  Work is performed independently.  Incumbent must be able to use individual judgment and problem-solving skills to accomplish goals and achieve desired results. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: 

• Generally, a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field. Master’s degree is preferred. 
• Ten (10) years’ experience in Cyber Security, Systems Administration, Database Administration, and/or Networking, including Voice and Data Telecommunications. 
• Ten (10) years’ experience in Systems Analysis and design, Application Administration, Business Intelligence, implementation of large complex applications and familiarity wit SASS and Cloud strategies. Experience with MS365 platform capabilities such as SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform and Exchange
• Sufficient experience, especially in managing a complex, distributed operational environment, may be substituted for a degree.   
• Ten (10) years of supervisory, management, and project management experience, managing the work efforts of multiple teams is required. 
• Experience in local government is highly desirable. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge:  The ability to effectively manage in a fast moving and dynamic environment, and respond to new events, is required.  Position requires the ability to apply logic and thought processes to problems involving multiple dimensions.  Ability to effectively read, analyze, interpret, and produce complex technical documents, diagrams and manuals is required.  Cost estimation, design, analysis, and budgeting is required.

Skills:  Attention to detail, especially as relates to determining both tactical and strategic courses of action, in both the short and long term, is required. 

Abilities:  The ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships is required as is the ability to build effective teams of individuals, managing the different interests of the team members. Ability to effectively communicate status information, coordinate technical direction, and resolve technical and personnel conflicts is required ability to effectively reason through risk mitigation scenarios, develop corrective courses of actions, and create plans of action with multiple constraints. Effectively establish and maintain relationships with outside entities such as CDAC, other District Attorney’s Offices, Douglas County IT, OIT, Law Enforcement Agencies, Vendors, etc.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS: Must possess a valid Colorado driver’s license or ability to obtain one within 90 days of hire.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Physical Work Environment:  Work is generally performed in a typical office environment.  This position requires the incumbent to remain available via mobile cellular device/email access during and after normally scheduled business hours.

Physical Demands: May occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. 

Material and Equipment Directly Used: The employee is required to operate a computer, scanner, fax machine, printers, plotters and large format copier

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Closing Date: 3/1/2025 5:59PM MST. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until a suitable candidate is selected.

 

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In the event of an emergency/disaster in or near the County, all County employees are expected to make every effort to be available to assist the County Manager, Elected/Appointed Officials and Department Directors to ensure the continued operation of any and all necessary County functions.  This may mean being available to perform additional duties and hours beyond what is normally required.  In the event that an exempt employee does work more than 40 hours a week in support of County operations during an emergency, such employee may receive overtime or other appropriate wage compensation in accordance with existing County policies or at the discretion of the County.

Salary

• $139,002 - $173,752/year