CO - P4535 - Enterprise Architecture and Security Operations Manager

DEQ’s Office of Information Services seeks a senior technical leader to own the agency’s enterprise architecture and lead day-to-day security operations and infrastructure delivery. This role manages the Security Operations Analyst and the Enterprise Infrastructure Team, who are responsible for managing, maintaining, and administering all enterprise cloud and on-premises virtual machine (VM) environments. The position ensures our technology landscape aligns with VITA architecture requirements, COV SEC530 information security standards, modern security operations, and industry best practices. The role is accountable for creating and maintaining the Agency Technical Architecture Plan (TAP), which—together with OIS operational roadmaps and the IT project portfolio—forms a major component of the Agency’s IT Strategic Plan. Incumbent will establish and maintain architecture standards, develop and refine IT change management practices, and ensure OIS delivers against short-term priorities and long-term IT strategic plans and operational roadmaps—including future planning, migrations, and coordination with VITA/service towers—to achieve a secure, resilient, and modernized IT ecosystem that accelerates DEQ’s mission