Chief Technology Officer

**Duties**:
As Chief Technology Officer, you will:

- Assist the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the leadership of RRB's technology strategy to ensure agency technology continuously improves upon delivery of RRB business outcomes.
- Lead and steward the agency's modernization IT resources, both human and financial, to ensure the efficient use of these resources in accordance with agency priorities. This requires leading and collaborating with numerous senior business-oriented and technical-oriented stakeholders with a diverse set of responsibilities and a variety of business needs within the agency.
- Lead RRB IT's technology innovation programs and serving as the authority for IT modernization within RRB.
- Provide advice and assistance to the CIO and RRB senior leaders on improving service delivery, leveraging technology for innovative business practices/solutions, and integrating/leading significant enterprise-wide modernization efforts.
- Drive optimization of technology across the RRB through implementation of new, or maximizing existing, technologies that enable the business to continually adapt, scale, and innovate.
- Deliver secure and exceptional technology solutions across RRB while providing equitable, accessible, and inclusive experiences for our employees and customers.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered for Selective Service
- Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
- If you are selected, you must complete a 1-year SES probationary period, if not previously completed.

**Qualifications**:

- Applicants MUST have demonstrated progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement and all executive and technical qualification factors defined below, automatically disqualifies an applicant.-
**Your ECQ statement must not exceed ten pages in length**.
- EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

- ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
- ECQ2 - LEADING PEOPLE: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.- ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
- ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
- OPM's Guide to the Senior Executive Qualifications provides detailed information on the Executive Core Qualifications.
- **MTQs required of all applicants even if already SES certified.**

MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

- **MTQ 1**: Demonstrated senior level experience leading enterprise transformation and large-scale technology implementation including cloud, low code/no code, full stack development, systems engineering, Dev/Sec/Ops principles, automation, and agile processes to facilitate rapid delivery.
- **MTQ 2**:Demonstrated senior level experience leading enterprise adoption of innovative, new, or emerging technology including working with technology and non-tech executives to implement and scale.
- **MTQ 3**:Demonstrated senior level experience leading development and implementation of enterprise-wide technology adoption strategies to ensure technology continuously improves services, products, and business outcomes for staff, customers, stakeholders, and partners.
- Unless you have already been certified by a Qualifications Review Board (QRB) in the past, your ECQs must be certified by a QRB before appointment can occur.

**Education**:
There is no education requirement for this position.

**Additional information**:

- Salary for Senior Executive Service positions varies depending on qualifications.- Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn mo