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Enterprise Platforms & Data Services Manager, Information Technology Manager 2 (Salem)

Central Distribution Center – Salem, Oregon

Oregon Department of Corrections

Are you ready to turn enterprise platforms into engines of innovation? We are seeking an experienced Information Technology Manager 2 to lead the implementation, adoption, and advancement of enterprise platforms and data services. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role responsible for ensuring platforms are secure, reliable, and actively enable innovation, analytics, and mission-critical outcomes across the organization.

About the Job – Your Role

This role is accountable for defining and executing the agency’s enterprise platforms and data services strategy, ensuring technology investments directly advance mission outcomes, operational efficiency, and long-term modernization.

Specifically, the IT Manager 2 will:

Set platform strategy and roadmap

• Define the future-state vision for enterprise platforms and data services
• Translate business priorities, statutory requirements, and risk considerations into actionable multi-year roadmaps

Lead modernization and platform evolution

• Drive modernization of legacy platforms through cloud, SaaS, and data-centric solutions
• Standardize platforms to reduce fragmentation, technical debt, and vendor lock-in

Ensure adoption and value realization

• Move beyond implementation to ensure platforms are fully adopted and embedded in business operations
• Measure platform success through usage, reliability, and business impact—not just delivery milestones

Enable data-driven decision-making

• Shape data platform strategy to improve data quality, accessibility, analytics, and reporting
• Enable secure data sharing and integration across systems and partner agencies

Govern platforms, vendors and contracts

• Establish platform governance, architectural standards, and lifecycle management
• Maintain compliance with state and federal regulations (healthcare, privacy, audit).
• Oversee vendor performance to ensure solutions align with strategic goals and deliver measurable value
• Oversee licensing and contract deliverables in coordination with procurement and finance teams.

Drive Leadership & Team Excellence

• Manage and mentor two specialized teams: COTS/SaaS Platforms and Data Products.
• Provide hands-on leadership to ensure strategy translates into practical, operational results
• Act as a trusted advisor to program leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Oversee budgets & forecast and identify opportunities for cost optimization.

This position is management services and may be eligible for Police & Fire (P&F) benefits through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), as defined by statute.

*Note: Effective Feb. 1, 2026, the compensation plan for this position will be increased to reflect a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) of 2.5%. The salary listed in this posting does not reflect the COLA.

Minimum Qualifications

There may be multiple ways to meet the minimum qualifications for this position. We encourage you to review all the options carefully—whether through education, experience, training, or a combination. If you believe your background has prepared you to succeed in this role, we welcome your application!

Six years of supervision, management, or progressively related experience;

OR

Three years of related experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Requested Skills

• Enterprise Platform Strategy & Delivery: Demonstrated experience leading enterprise platform implementations and ongoing operations, including Microsoft 365, COTS/SaaS and data solutions. Proven ability to manage full platform lifecycles—from modernization and integration through upgrades and optimization.
• Platform & Data Services Strategic Planning: Experience in defining and executing enterprise platform and data services roadmaps aligned with agency mission and business priorities, balancing near-term delivery with long-term modernization goals.
• Data Governance, Analytics & Enablement: Experience establishing data platform and data governance frameworks that improve data quality, consistency, and usability while enabling secure self-service reporting and analytics in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary technical teams while remaining actively engaged in platform design decisions, implementation oversight, and problem resolution.
• Vendor, Platform & Financial Management: Experience managing complex vendor ecosystems, including contracts, SLAs, licensing, and performance outcomes, in close coordination with procurement, finance, and business stakeholders.
• Risk, Compliance & Security Collaboration: Understanding of compliance requirements related to privacy and information security, with demonstrated ability to partner with security teams to manage access, mitigate risk, and support audits.

Application Information

• In the Work Experience section of your application make sure to include the dates and duties of all relevant positions and details to support how you meet these attributes. If you do not include education or work experience meeting the minimum qualifications, you will not be considered for the position. Only the candidates whose experience most closely matches the qualifications and requested skills of this position will be invited to interview. Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications on or before the job posting close date.
• The job posting closes at 11:59 PM (PDT/PST) on the close date. After you submit your application, be sure to respond to the two questionnaires relating to public records requests and veterans’ preference immediately following your submittal. These questions are necessary to complete the application process.
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Working Conditions

Extensive work on video display terminals. Occasional travel to DOC facilities. May require irregular hours to support project deadlines or system rollouts. Exposure to AICs in the workplace.

About the Department

The Oregon Department of Corrections is responsible for over 12,000 adults in custody in 12 state prisons throughout Oregon. It advises and evaluates counties regarding administration of probation and parole programs supervising more than 24,000 offenders in Oregon communities. The mission is to protect communities, promote accountability, and transform lives.

The Oregon Department of Corrections serves a diverse and changing population of people who are incarcerated and on supervision. We commit to creating an organization both reflecting the diversity of the population we serve and ensuring all employees thrive in a culture of safety, trust, and belonging. We strive to be an anti-racist corrections system. Welcoming, inclusive, and respectful of all people. Free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

The Department offers a variety of programs and opportunity to create a safe and healthy environment to for our staff, volunteers, and adults in custody. Joining the Oregon Department of Corrections is joining a team working for the benefit of our communities through innovative and proven correctional practices.

Benefits

The salary range listed above is for non-PERS qualifying applicants. PERS qualifying applicants may be eligible for an adjusted range to reflect an additional 6.95%.

The State of Oregon provides a generous benefit package, which includes:

• Family health, vision, and dental insurance
• Vacation, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays
• 21 days paid military leave for national guard and reserve components
• Optional short and long-term disability
• Term life insurance
• Fully paid retirement program
• Oregon Saving Growth Plan
• Flexible spending accounts for health and childcare
• And more

About the Process – What to Expect

• After the application deadline, a recruiter will review submissions for education and experience to identify candidates who best fit the minimum qualifications and requested skills.
• Top candidates will be referred to the hiring manager.
• The hiring manager will review your application and schedule interviews.
• Interview will be held with a panel of stakeholders who have completed panel assessment training. Scores will be determined based on predetermined questions and scoring guides. Preferences points will be applied in compliance with relevant laws and bargaining agreements. There may be multiple rounds of interviews.
• Final candidates will have a background check, PREA check, and reference checks.
• A Classification and Compensation analyst will review the Workday Application of the successful candidate to determine starting wages. Learn more about Equal Pay.
• A job offer will be extended through Workday to the successful candidate. Congratulations, and welcome to the team!

Requirements for Employment

The successful candidate for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, there may be some felony convictions that could disqualify you for this position. However, having a felony record does not exclusively restrict you from being considered as an applicant. CJIS clearance is done at the conditional job offer. If you have questions about whether or not your criminal record could disqualify for you, please contact the recruiter for more information.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDI&B) is embedded in the Department of Corrections core values. The department strives to be a model employer committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Ensuring legal compliance, efficiency, and exceeding expectations to deliver the best public services.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran or protected veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. Additional information can be found from The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Know Your Rights.

The Oregon Department of Corrections is responsible for complying with the Federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA 42 U.S.C. 1997). PREA prohibits the Oregon Department of Corrections from hiring, promoting, or contracting with anyone, (that will have direct contact with residents), who has engaged in, been convicted of, or been civilly or administratively adjudicated for engaging in sexual abuse in confinement settings. Learn more about PREA.

Under Oregon Law, qualifying veterans may apply for veterans’ preference. Review our veterans’ preference page for details about eligibility. Please note – if you are a veteran, you will receive a task in Workday to upload your documents immediately after you submit your initial application. You will have up until 24 hours after the posted application deadline to submit the appropriate documentation.

The State of Oregon does not request or require your age, date of birth, attendance or graduation dates from an educational institution during the application process.

Questions

If you have questions about the position, selection process, or need accommodations to participate in the recruitment process please contact the recruiter and reference the requisition number.

Recruiter: Cynthia Rodriguez, [email protected]

Reference Number: Req-194395

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• ODOC does not offer visa sponsorship. Within three days of hire, applicants will be required to complete an I-9 and confirm authorization to work in the United States.
• This applicant list may be used to fill future vacancies. Application information may be used throughout the entire selection process. This process is subject to change without notice.
• This announcement is intended as a general descriptive recruitment guide and is subject to change. It does not constitute either an expressed or implied contract. The pay and benefits on all announcements may change without notice.