Enterprise Technology Lead

TX-HHSC-DSHS-DFPS•Austin, TX

5d•$7,015 - $9,583•Onsite

About The Position

This position is open to U.S. Citizens and permanent residents. This onsite role requires the selected candidate to work from an HHS office in Austin, Texas. The Enterprise Technology Lead performs advanced (senior-level) enterprise technology coordination and portfolio enablement work within the HHSC-CTO organization. In addition to strong coordination, technical, and leadership skills, this role requires broad and practical understanding of modern enterprise technologies—including applications, cloud platforms, data, integration, and security—to effectively engage with vendors, architects, and delivery teams. The role serves as a lead technology-fluent integrator, working closely with the CTO architects, and other IT areas to translate enterprise technology direction into coordinated execution of artificial intelligence technology across programs and vendors. The lead needs to understand and reinforce standards, ensuring that technology decisions, trade-offs, and risks are clearly articulated and visible to leadership.

Requirements

Knowledge of the principles and practices of systems analysis, including technologies, products, trends, standards, operations, best practices and related governance.
Knowledge of security requirements and configurations to resolve AI security vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of artificial intelligence in IT workflow and development.
Skill in the full SDLC, including Agile and Waterfall development methods.
Ability to analyze and optimize system performance and resource utilization.
Ability to plan, prioritize and implement assigned projects, including contributions to project management tasks or personnel.
Ability to communicate effectively with customers, IT teams, and others at all levels of the organization
Ability to develop and implement large scale, custom integration and software projects utilizing multiple IT environments.
Knowledge of enterprise application ecosystems, cloud platforms, and shared technology services
Knowledge of enterprise IT environments and multi-vendor technology ecosystems
Knowledge of IT governance, portfolio management, and technology planning processes
Knowledge of system integration, data flows, and dependencies across enterprise platforms
Knowledge of cybersecurity, resiliency, and operational considerations in large-scale IT environments
Knowledge of IT delivery models (Agile, product-centric, vendor-led delivery)
Knowledge of cloud platforms, application ecosystems, and enterprise integration concepts
Skill in coordinating across matrixed organizations without direct authority
Skill in vendor engagement and technology delivery coordination
Skill in synthesizing complex technical and delivery information for executive audiences
Skill in executive-level written and verbal communication
Skill in engaging in credible technical discussions with architects, engineers, and vendors
Skill in translating technical concepts into executive-level summaries and recommendations
Skill in evaluating technology options and surfacing trade-offs without owning design decisions
Ability to align product and vendor activities to established enterprise direction
Ability to surface risks, dependencies, and trade-offs for leadership decision-making
Ability to build strong partnerships with CTO, DCTO, CEA, and senior IT leaders
Ability to understand and question technology approaches to ensure alignment with enterprise direction
Ability to recognize architectural, security, or operational risks and elevate them appropriately
Ability to balance technical depth with business and execution considerations
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in computer science, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field is generally preferred. Experience and education may be substituted for one another on a year for year basis.
At least 7 years of experience in enterprise IT environments, including hand-on experience coordinating across vendors, platforms, or large-scale technology initiatives, is required.

Nice To Haves

Professional certifications in artificial intelligence or agentic workflows
Experience working within a CTO, enterprise architecture, or centralized technology organization specific to health and human services is strongly preferred.
Experience supporting executive leadership, technology governance, or portfolio coordination is also preferred.
Experience in managing the deployment of artificial intelligence systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

Leads Information Technology (IT) project deployments of artificial intelligence systems for projects across agencies. This includes leading IT AI projects, coordinating, planning, and scheduling during project development and implementation stages. (25%)
Support the development of IT roadmaps for the agency to address desired business process and technology improvements. Promotes and supports program areas within IT. Develops productive working relationships with program area. Understands program area needs and identifies opportunities for improvement. Apply principles of HHS IT and systems integration standards to perform strategy planning work, alternatives analysis, and risk analysis/management. (30%)
Performs business, systems, and/or legislative analyses, formulates logical descriptions of problems, and devises optimum solutions to meet customer needs. Recommends and creates technical and product strategies. Analyzes, leads and coordinates design, development and implementation of systems and services with functionality across program areas using enterprise architecture standards. Plans and schedules studies and system implementation. (35%)
Supports the development of vendor technical strategies, organizational strategies, project plans, charts, diagrams, tables, monthly and final reports that depict present and proposed systems in terms of costs, benefits derived, and tasks accomplished. (10%)
Provides leadership, plans and coordinates workflow of team members to accomplish team goals and objectives. May supervise the work of others. Performs related work as assigned. (10%)