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Duties Description Oversee M&O governance and decision-making for operations and related risks and issues, including escalations and timely engagement with the executives.
Oversee, streamline, and guide continuous improvements of M&O processes.
Lead and execute governance of Service Request – intake, prioritization, and tracking fulfillment.
Lead and execute governance for when incidents are transitioned into Change Requests (CRs) and how they are tracked through closure.
Ensure that the Systems Integrator, DOH, and Trading Partners follow the agreed Incident Management tool/process.
Partner with other Medicaid systems and State agency to coordinate system changes.
Oversee system development lifecycle (SDLC) for each monthly M&O releases and patch releases; Partner with the DOH UAT teams to ensure sufficient capacity and plan to complete UAT for the M&O releases; Secure DOH executive approvals and go/no-go decisions for production deployments per Release Management governance.
Oversee Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance, including review of monthly SLA results, confirm expectations, and direct continuous improvements.
Review recurring operational reporting, including the Daily Operations Report, Monthly M&O Report, Monthly SLA Report, and Warranty Report.
Oversee the communications readiness for outages/disruptions (stakeholder awareness, distribution lists, emergency contacts, and agreed cadence).
Participate in continuity and resilience governance, including awareness / review of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan (BCDRP) expectations and outcomes.
Provide cost / capacity inputs and support decisions, as needed, via the collaborative cost management process.
Coordinate with the DOH technical and security teams and the System Integrator to ensure ongoing activities such as patches, security testing, vulnerability fixes, upgrades, security reviews, etc. are managed and executed.
Analyze staffing needs, schedule all M&O resources, and identify learning / training needs, including State employees, consultants, and Systems Integrator staff.
Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree and six years of experience in information technology maintenance and operations management, enterprise systems operations, healthcare systems support, or systems service delivery governance, including responsibility for service level agreement oversight, incident and change management, release management, operational reporting, continuity and disaster recovery coordination, systems security coordination, and systems integrator/vendor oversight within a large-scale technology environment; three of these years must have been at the supervisory level; or one year of experience at the managerial level.
Substitutions: Bachelor’s degree may be substituted by four years of specialized experience or an associate’s degree and two years of specialized service. A master's degree may substitute for one year of specialized experience.
Preferred Qualifications: Two years of experience in NYS government
We offer a work-life balance and a generous benefits package, worth 65% of salary, including:
- Holiday & Paid Time Off
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
- Pension from New York State Employees’ Retirement System
- Shift & Geographic pay differentials
- Affordable Health Care options
- Family dental and vision benefits at no additional cost
- NYS Deferred Compensation plan
- Access to NY 529 and NY ABLE College Savings Programs, and U.S. Savings Bonds
- And many more...
The NYS Department of Health is committed to making New York a safer, healthier, and more equitable place to live. Understanding health equity, social determinants of health and health disparities is critical to accomplish our goal of eliminating health disparities. For more information on the NYS Department of Health’s Mission, Vision, Values and Strategic Plan, please visit: https://health.ny.gov/commissioner/index.htm
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