The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) oversees all Citywide technology, privacy, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and telecommunications to ensure the security of, and enhance, City operations and service delivery to New York City's residents, businesses, employees, and visitors. As the City's technology and innovation leader, OTI is responsible for operating, maintaining, and securing IT infrastructure and systems that touch every aspect of City life from public safety to human services, from education to economic development crossing the full spectrum of governmental operations.

The successful candidate will serve as Executive Director of Enterprise Systems Services (ESS) reporting to the Associate Commissioner of Infrastructure Management, Service Delivery.

Responsibilities include:
- Architecture, design, deployment and operations of data center infrastructure workload dependencies. Additionally, standardizing and modernizing the provisioning of hosted data center services with fault tolerant, highly-available and resilient stacks;
- Will also ensure that people, process, technology are homogenized into a well the orchestrated integrated, streamlined service delivery with automation and expanded self-service;
- Oversight of desktop, portable and Mac systems;
- Direct the strategic planning, policy formulation and implementation of the City’s enterprise systems, provide executive management for the development of major programs that seek to coordinate the effective use of technology, administer the technical design and operational activities of the division as well as instituting policies concerning services, methods, standards, and scope for providing the services;
- Represent the agency at high-level meetings with citywide partners and other entities;
- Ensure that OTI’s technology products and services meet business requirements; and lead high-priority special projects and technology initiatives as assigned.
- Manage special projects and initiatives as assigned.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 credits in the field of voice and/or data telecommunications or in a pertinent scientific, technical, electronic or related area, and four years of satisfactory fulltime experience in the performance of analytical, planning, operational, technical, or administrative duties in a voice and/or data telecommunications or closely related electronics planning, management, and/or service organization, one year of which must have been in a highly specialized capacity and 18 months must have been in an executive, managerial, or administrative capacity or in the supervision of staff performing work in the voice and/or data telecommunications field; or
2. An associate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 12 credits in the field of voice and/or data telecommunications or in a pertinent, scientific, technical, electronic or related area and five years of experience as described in "1" above; or
3. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and one year of the specialized experience as described in "1" above and must possess the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

The preferred candidate should possess the following: - 8+ years developing and managing infrastructure and supporting enterprise applications on a senior level - Knowledge of release methodologies, project management, technical support, production support, strategic planning, client/server applications, and enterprise services - Knowledge of Data Center Design, Compute, Storage and Networking - Hyper-converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud architectures Demonstrated abilities: teamwork, analytical, communication, and organization skills - Ability to lead and handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines - Ability to effectively interface with technologists, business owners, and end-users - Demonstrated knowledge of New York City government - Demonstrated leadership, staff development and analytics skills are strongly desired.

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.