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Texas Health and Human Services · 16 hours ago

Public Health Applications Manager

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$7,015/mo - $11,864/mo

5+ years exp

Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is dedicated to creating a positive impact in the lives of Texans. The Public Health Applications Manager will provide leadership and supervision for application development and support services, ensuring projects meet customer needs and compliance with policies.

Health Care

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Gina Nelson, SHRM-CP

Responsibilities

Provides leadership and supervision essential to ensuring efficient and effective applications development services for customers

Supervises the overall planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of services in the assigned IT Public Health portfolio

Responsibilities include meeting established goals, ensuring work plans and schedules are in place and properly executed, organizing the work based upon best practices, so that activities are completed on time, within budget, and within scope and quality requirements

Supervises project managers/team leaders or highly complex projects that require coordinating, planning, and scheduling during project development and implementation stages

Supervises and oversees day-to-day operations so that projects are completed on time, within budget, and within scope and quality requirements

Performs environment expansion, migrations, modernizations for Storage/Compute/Network/Application systems

Responsible for maintaining detailed industry knowledge, especially around Cloud, and integrate those to internal technical domain knowledge of the assigned portfolio

Liaise with Managed Service Providers

Maintain vendor and app management, and security requirements

Enforce security policies and contribute to cross-functional security related strategy and execution

Oversees multiple audits annually

Review legislative and business requirements for impact to assigned applications

As member of the Change Control Board reviews and approves all Production changes to determine impact and maintain compliance with policy and procedures

Advises, consults and negotiates with customers in providing software development services for and evaluating service level performance consistent with DSHS, HHSC and DIR plans, standards and guidelines

Provides leadership to assigned managers and staff to ensure services are coordinated, efficient, follow best practices and policies, and meet service level objectives

Working with financial analyst oversees and approves budget expenditures and implements budgetary adjustments regarding assigned portfolio and projects

Manages and develops staff through review of performance data, consultation, training and performance appraisal

Responsible for hiring and selection, assigning work, completing performance evaluations, recommending personnel disciplinary actions, and scheduling and approving leave

Provides input to Director on budget development, staff allocations, and recommendations for effective and efficient use of resources

Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations

Qualification

Software DevelopmentLeadershipProject ManagementSystems AdministrationCloud KnowledgeConsultation SkillsEffective CommunicationProblem SolvingTeam ManagementPresentation Skills

Required

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in Information Technology, Computer Science, business administration, management information systems, or a related field is generally preferred. Work experience in the listed areas can be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis

At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in IT is required

At least 2 years of experience in managing software development and/or software quality assurance teams is required

Experience with on call support