MASTER IT PROFESSIONAL 2

Master IT Professional 2

The Nevada Department of Transportation is hiring for a Master IT Professional 2 located in Carson City, Nevada. The Software Architect & Modernization Technical Lead will design and maintain the organization's software architecture while guiding modernization and innovation efforts. This role sets the technical vision, defines architectural standards, and ensures that systems are scalable, secure, and prepared for future needs. In addition to serving as the technical lead for modernization efforts, this position champions emerging technologies, collaborates across teams, and drives architectural direction that transforms legacy systems into modern, efficient platforms. The ideal candidate will champion emerging technologies, foster innovation, promote best practices, and help align technical solutions with strategic organizational goals. Master Information Technology (IT) Professionals provide the highest level of professional IT expertise in an agency in one or more functional areas such as information systems project management, quality assurance, database administration, network administration, systems administration, applications analysis and development, or information security.

Essential Qualifications: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and six years of progressively responsible professional IT experience, three years of which were at the advanced journey level in a pertinent specialty area such as information systems project management, quality assurance, systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, or information security; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Job Duties: Positions in this series are assigned duties and projects deemed vital to the agency mission. Duties are associated with major long-term projects, which significantly impact the agency's business processes. Without the successful completion of those duties and projects, there would be significant disruption to agency operations and reduced levels of service to the citizens of the State, reduced levels of public safety, and/or substantial loss of revenue to the State. Incumbents function as individual contributors who possess advanced level experience and specialized skills, and provide technical expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Information systems project management including responsibility for specialized projects of significant size, scope, and impact to agency operations. Duties include serving as the project leader; planning, organizing and directing project activities; conducting cost/benefit analyses; resolving design conflicts; data administration; resource allocation; contract negotiation; timeline development; critical path tracking; justifying the need for additional resources; and coordination with other work units within and outside the organization.
• Quality assurance including total oversight of one or more major IT projects from inception through procurement. Duties include ensuring deliverables meet technical and/or contract requirements within time and fiscal constraints, and in accordance with established standards of quality; analysis of system life-cycles and growth projections; developing test plan checklists and auditing project activities and processes; preparing comprehensive reports regarding project progress; and meeting with agency administrators, project committees, vendors, external contractors and others to resolve schedule and cost issues and report progress. Duties require a comprehensive understanding of technical issues regarding application design including system development methodology, computer interface, data warehousing techniques, and legal and regulatory requirements.
• Systems administration including the selection, analysis, maintenance, and modification of computer, communications, mainframe, and server hardware, operating systems, and auxiliary software packages required to support various information systems, and back-up and recovery of the agency's software and data. Duties include long-range planning for both hardware and software products; conducting detailed alternative analyses, cost/benefit analyses, and determining end-user requirements; and implementation of planning strategies, departmental policies and standards to ensure short and long-term goals and objectives are achieved within fiscal and other resource limitations.
• Network administration including planning, designing, implementing, performance tuning, troubleshooting and administering multi-protocol, geographically dispersed networks including local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) switches, routers, multiplexers and campus switches, and integrated WAN services. Duties also involve integration of WAN topologies.
• Database administration including agency data modeling, database configuration, performance tuning, and backup and recovery of data; develop and implement standards and procedures to convert, transfer, and interface data within and between databases; maintenance of data dictionaries, repositories, and related software; control and authorized sharing of information with multiple users within and/or outside the organization; and technical consultation regarding application development and utility executions within various database environments.
• Applications analysis and development including the analysis, design, development, maintenance, and modification of information systems and applications. Duties include consulting with management to determine agency needs and system requirements, constructing and programming systems, integrating new implementations with existing hardware and software, conducting detailed alternative analyses, cost/benefit analyses, and determining end-user requirements. Duties require advanced level communication with a variety of audiences such as end-users, technicians, vendors, management, and others.
• Information security including security administration, operation, and oversight of information systems and data within the realm of information security responsibility. Incumbents work with management and technical staff to develop a comprehensive information security program for integrated IT systems within the agency and are responsible for six or more of the following ten security domain areas: Access control – centralized / decentralized / remote / federated; Application/system development security – validation / verification / guidelines; Continuity of operations/disaster recovery planning – business recovery; Cryptography – transport / storage / authentication / non-repudiation; Information security management – awareness / policies / risk management / procedural standards; Operational security (OPSEC) – threats / hostile code / techniques; Physical technical security – access systems / structural / environmental controls; Security architecture and models – methods / security operational standards; Security law, investigation and ethics – cyber crime / incident response / security regulation; Telecommunications/network security – enclave / monitoring / virtual private network / firewall / prevention. Incumbents may train, supervise, and evaluate the performance of subordinate staff and/or serve as a project leader as assigned. Perform related duties as assigned. Incumbents are technical experts in a specific IT area in which they have received the highest level of specialized training and certification from a nationally recognized/accredited organization. This training enables them to provide technical expertise beyond that which is provided by an IT Professional IV or III. Incumbents report to a manager or supervisor who may be at the same or lower grade level.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: This job specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, skills and abilities from a previous level. Detailed knowledge of: various systems software products and their interrelationships; performance monitoring principles and related software products; vendor procedures for applying maintenance and temporary fixes; planning, development, and implementation of backup and recovery techniques and procedures for all data and applications software; administration of large complex networks to include wide area, campus, multi-agency or statewide multi-protocol networks. Ability to: apply advanced level knowledge and skills to projects and assignments deemed critical to the agency's mission; analyze and resolve complex issues and problems which directly impact the agency's services to the public, collection of revenue, and/or public safety; provide the highest level of technical consultation and training to the agency in developing, enhancing, implementing, and modifying information systems which support the agency's business processes.

Recruiter Contact Information: Jon Terrazas at View email address on click.appcast.io

The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.