Sr. Director of Compliance

State of Maryland•Anne Arundel, MD

About The Position

Introduction The Department of Information Technology (DoIT) provides support to state agencies, the Executive Office of the Governor, the Governor’s coordinating offices, and a variety of independent agencies within the Executive Branch. Striving to provide the highest level of customer service to its internal and external customers, DoIT supports Maryland’s agencies and commissions through its leadership and strategic direction for Information Technology and Telecommunications, establishing a long range, target technology architecture, encouraging cross agency collaboration and advocating best practices for operations and project management. This is a Management Service position that serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority Please submit a Project Plan that outlines the strategy to establish a comprehensive, effective, and sustainable compliance program for the Department of Information Technology (DoIT). Please upload the Project Plan in the additional required materials tab under the College Diploma/Transcript slot. Additionally please ensure you upload your resume as well.

Requirements

Five years experience creating and managing an IT compliance program for a large organization or state/federal government entity.
Experience with financial and IT compliance audits.
Two of the five years needs to be in a supervisory role overseeing other compliance/audit staff.

Nice To Haves

Most recent job experience is (or was) with the US Federal Government or Maryland State Government, defined as AT LEAST ONE of the below:
-Currently employed with the US Federal Government;
-Separated from the US Federal Government after January 15, 2025, with or without other employment since;
-Currently employed with the Maryland State Government.

Responsibilities

Coordinating the development, implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures across DoIT
Implementing an internal and external audit and monitoring program, to include the conduction of audits and systemic monitoring
Procurement compliance
Third party compliance with vendor contracts
Coordination, preparation, and implementation of external, independent, State and federal audits, and monitoring of implementation of corrective action/risk mitigation plans
Oversight of the State’s privacy program
Managing compliance, policy and procedure, privacy, audit, monitoring and ethics activities within each division of the Department of Information Technology (DoIT)
Ensuring that any state agency that falls under DoIT’s jurisdiction for IT services, is staying compliant with their approved/established IT policies, OLA audit findings and responses and training of staff in all DoIT Security IT policies as well as state and federal security policies and best practices.