Department of Transportation
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST III
Job Description and Duties
Under the administrative direction of the Division Chief, the incumbent is responsible for performing activities in support of discovering, assessing, architecture and delivery of multi-environment enterprise, Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions with integrated GIS infrastructure. Assignments require an advanced level of organizational understanding to bridge the strategic intent and practical technical application. In addition, the incumbent will advise executive leadership on formulating Information Technology (IT) strategy, policy, and governance for Caltrans's current and emerging GIS technology portfolio.
The incumbent serves as a technical lead and solution architect, responsible for defining, designing, developing, documenting, coordinating, and integrating the products managed within the Division, with primary focus around GIS based solutions implemented through IT, to enable the business to meet its objectives. The incumbent possesses a wide and deep practical technical knowledge base with emerging “cutting-edge” GIS technologies, including the department's standard software, Esri ArcGIS. The incumbent is recognized as a subject matter expert in their area of specialization, developing prototypes, models using various business intelligence analytics, procedures, and software. While exhibiting a mastery level of team leadership qualities, the incumbent will direct technical teams, and advise executive leadership on most GIS related projects.
The incumbent performs duties related to the architecture, design, development, integration, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure and software systems, including user research, user-centric design, development or configuration, testing, and implementation.
Domain(s): Software Engineering Information Technology Project Management
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.
Working Conditions
The incumbent may be required to work for extended periods of time in a computer room. This position may be eligible for telework. The amount of telework is at the discretion of the Department and based on Caltrans’s current telework policy. While Caltrans supports telework, in-person attendance may be required based on operational needs. Employees are expected to be able to report to their worksite with minimal notification if an urgent need arises, as determined by the Department. The selected candidate may be required to travel to the headquartered location. All expenses to travel to the headquartered location will be the responsibility of the selected candidate. The incumbent may be required to travel to other Caltrans offices to support and provide expertise for IT operations.
The incumbent may work after regular business hours and/or weekends to perform activities to support business operations and/or systems maintenance.
Minimum Requirements
You will find the Minimum Requirements in the Class Specification.
Additional Documents
Desirable Qualifications
In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:
Technical Skills:
• Experience working on large scale enterprise information technology projects
• Hands-on experience with application development, design skills in development of software solutions, frameworks, interfaces, and components
• Knowledge of interoperability of multiple architectural platforms and systems
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD
• Strong understanding of Application architecture, Integration patterns and experience with development and implementations
• Knowledge of all enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes
• Expertise in providing strategic technical direction, influence, and driving continuous improvement in an organization
• Capable of using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; Works comfortably with concepts at a high level of complexity.
• Experience working on large scale enterprise information technology projects using Microsoft, Net, java or php, Single Page Application frameworks (React, Angular, etc.)
• Knowledge of security principles and techniques for developing secure applications, including encryption, authentication, and authorization
Other Skills:
• Exceptional analytical, creative problem solving, and critical thinking skills to provide valuable suggestions and solutions in the delivery of products and services for technology and to drive the organization's digital business strategies
• Experience in preparing and delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally, prepare reports, conduct briefings, and able to develop written communications to all levels of management and staff
• Expertise in containers and container orchestration
• Experience working on cloud migration or digital transformation projects
Contact Information
The Human Resources Contact is available to answer questions regarding the position or application process.
Human Resources Contact:
Gwen Ling
(279) 234-2444
Gwen.G.Ling@dot.ca.gov
