Chief Enterprise Grants Technology Officer

Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services • Washington, DC

20d

About The Position

This position is in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources, Office of Grants, Division of Information and Solutions. The Chief Enterprise Grants Technology Officer serves as the Department’s principal advisor to senior leadership on enterprise grants technology, digital modernization, enterprise architecture, governance, and innovation.

The officer establishes the strategic vision, governance framework, and modernization roadmap for the Department’s grants technology portfolio, aligning it with Department priorities, Administration objectives, and government-wide initiatives. The role integrates grants management, financial assistance administration, customer experience, cybersecurity, cloud services, artificial intelligence, enterprise data management, and digital services into a cohesive strategy for secure, interoperable, customer-centered, data-driven grants services.

As the Department’s senior authority on enterprise grants technology, the officer provides executive leadership for enterprise architecture, business transformation, technology governance, investment strategy, modernization planning, data governance, and AI adoption. The role advises Department executives on technology investments, shared services, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and long-range organizational strategy, and represents the Department before OMB, GSA, Treasury, GAO, Federal councils, and other intergovernmental bodies.

Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at or above the GS-15 level, or equivalent, providing senior-level technical, analytical, and strategic leadership for large-scale Federal financial assistance or grants-management technology programs, enterprise platforms, or shared services. The experience must cover Federal grants systems and business processes; enterprise technology strategy and shared-services architecture; modernization and integration of mission-critical grants technology; and enterprise technology investment and cross-organizational leadership. The posting also identifies three technical qualifications covering grants-domain and enterprise technology expertise, modern and emerging technologies applied to grants modernization, and enterprise architecture, shared services, and executive technical leadership.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• At least one year of specialized experience at or above the GS-15 level, or equivalent, providing senior-level technical, analytical, and strategic leadership for large-scale Federal financial assistance or grants-management technology programs, enterprise platforms, or shared services.
• Experience applying substantive knowledge of Federal financial assistance and grants-management operations to enterprise systems supporting multiple stages of the grants lifecycle.
• Experience developing, evaluating, or implementing enterprise technology strategies, architectures, standards, governance frameworks, or modernization plans for grants-management environments involving multiple interconnected systems, functions, programs, or organizational components.
• Experience providing senior-level technical direction for grants technology modernization or integration involving areas such as cloud technologies, enterprise data management, cybersecurity, automation, digital services, or APIs, while addressing operational continuity, interoperability, and Federal requirements.
• Experience providing authoritative technical analysis, recommendations, or strategic direction to senior executives on significant technology investments, modernization alternatives, enterprise risks, or shared-service decisions affecting multiple programs, organizations, agencies, or customer communities.
• Experience addressing complex enterprise technology issues and influencing strategic technology or modernization decisions beyond a single application, project, or organizational unit.
• Expert-level knowledge of Federal financial assistance and grants management and the ability to apply it to enterprise technology strategies and solutions for large-scale platforms or shared services.
• Comprehensive understanding of the Federal grants lifecycle, including funding opportunity development and publication, application intake, award formulation and issuance, post-award administration, reporting, oversight, closeout, grants data, and related financial and business processes.
• Ability to address grants-management business, policy, regulatory, data, and interoperability requirements through enterprise technology solutions serving multiple Federal programs, organizations, or agencies.
• Expert-level technical leadership in evaluating, selecting, and applying modern and emerging technologies and engineering approaches to large-scale Federal grants technology modernization.
• Ability to evaluate modernization approaches using technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automation, enterprise data and analytics, APIs, cybersecurity and zero-trust principles, digital services, and modern software engineering.
• Ability to address architectural and technology trade-offs, reduce technical debt, improve interoperability and operational efficiency, and establish secure, scalable, resilient, and sustainable solutions while maintaining mission-critical operations and compliance with Federal requirements.
• Expert-level ability to establish and influence enterprise technology strategy, business and technology architecture, governance, integration strategies, data standards, target operating models, and long-range modernization direction.
• Ability to resolve complex enterprise architecture, governance, interoperability, and technology investment challenges; make authoritative technical recommendations to senior executives; and influence decisions across organizational and agency boundaries.
• Ability to align enterprise technology direction with Federal grants-management mission requirements, resolve competing stakeholder priorities, and advance enterprise-wide or interagency technology initiatives.
• Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment when requested and meet suitability requirements for Federal employment.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must certify Selective Service registration or exemption.
• File a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report OGE-278e within 30 days of appointment and annually thereafter; the posting also states that the selected applicant must submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278, before assuming the SES position, annually, and upon termination.
• Obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance before entering on duty.
• New appointees must successfully complete a one-year probationary period.
• Meet the qualification requirements no later than the announcement closing date.

Responsibilities

• Establish the strategic vision, governance framework, and modernization roadmap for the Department’s grants technology portfolio.
• Integrate grants management, financial assistance administration, customer experience, cybersecurity, cloud services, artificial intelligence, enterprise data management, and digital services into an enterprise technology strategy.
• Provide executive leadership for enterprise architecture, business transformation, technology governance, investment strategy, modernization planning, data governance, and AI adoption.
• Advise Department executives on technology investments, shared services, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and long-range organizational strategy.
• Represent the Department before OMB, GSA, Treasury, GAO, Federal councils, and other intergovernmental bodies.
• Provide senior-level technical direction for modernization or integration of Federal grants-management technology environments while addressing operational continuity, interoperability, and Federal requirements.
• Provide authoritative technical analysis, recommendations, or strategic direction to senior executives on significant technology investments, modernization alternatives, enterprise risks, and shared-service decisions.
• Advance cross-organizational collaboration and government-wide modernization efforts for grants and financial assistance programs.

Benefits

• The posting states that Federal employees and their families have access to a comprehensive benefits package, but does not specify individual benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed