Requisition No: 810915
Agency: Financial Services
Working Title: DATA INTEGRATION TEAM MANAGER – 43002060 (PENDING POSITION CREATION)
Position Number: 43002060
Salary: $90,000.00 – $105,000.00
Posting Closing Date: 09/15/2023
*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****
CLASS TITLE: COMPUTER & INFO SYSTEMS MANAGER I – SES (PENDING POSITION CREATION)
WORKING TITLE: DATA INTEGRATION TEAM MANAGER
DIVISION: FLORIDA PALM PROJECT
CITY: TALLAHASSEE
COUNTY: LEON
In order to be considered for this position, applicant responses to the qualifying questions, and work experience must be clearly defined within your work history, or the application may not be considered for the position.
What is Florida PALM?
The Florida PALM Project (the Project) is an enterprise project to replace the State of Florida’s legacy accounting, payroll, and cash management systems, using an enterprise resource planning solution. The Department of Financial Services (DFS) is leading this statewide initiative, which impacts stakeholders and users of the State’s financial data including all State agencies.
Who are we?
We are an innovative team of experts specializing in financial operations, business analysis, project management, change management and stakeholder relations. Working as part of the team at Florida PALM provides a great opportunity to be part of a mission-driven organization that strongly supports its employees’ professional growth and development through training opportunities and knowledge sharing. You will also be able to see your work directly support the transformation of business processes supporting Florida State government.
To learn more about the Florida PALM Project, visit our website at www.myfloridacfo.com/floridapalm
SPECIAL NOTES:
Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (i.e., Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science) from an accredited four-year college or university or four (4) years relevant work experience in Information Technology, particularly in the areas of legacy and service-oriented architecture integration is required.
Additional requirements:
- Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Information Technology, including at least two (2) in a manager or supervisory capacity.
- Experience in technology requirements gathering, configuration, specification development, testing and implementation of systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with all employee levels and levels of management.
- Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced culture of change and innovation.
Preference will be given for the following:
- Minimum three (3) years’ experience in the software development lifecycle including, technology requirements gathering, configuration, development, testing and implementation of systems.
- Participated in data conversion efforts to migrate data from a legacy system into a new system.
- Experience in developing and testing processes for the extract, transform and load (ETL) of data from source system applications.
- Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter, taking initiative rather than waiting for direction
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 – $105,000.00.
Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.
This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.
Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.
Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Knowledge and experience applying project management standards.
- Ability to analyze data, identify problem areas, make improvement recommendations, and implement approved recommendations.
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to determine work priorities, assign work, and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Knowledge and experience in the review and application of Florida Statutes and Rules (or other similar laws and rules)
- Knowledge and skill in the areas of legacy (e.g., file-based, batch) and modern (e.g., SOA) integration architectures and interoperability standards, patterns, and protocols
- Knowledge and skill in the areas of commercial off the shelf (“COTS”) integration applications and solutions.
- Knowledge and skill in the areas of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling and service-oriented modeling.
- Knowledge and skill in the areas of data and integration governance programs, policies, and procedures.
- Knowledge of business analysis, technical analysis, and problem-solving techniques.
- Knowledge of software design, development processes, and documentation.
- Knowledge of software requirement management and testing techniques.
- Skill in translating technical concepts to business audience and business information to a technical audience.
- Skill in Microsoft Suite products (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook) and Visio software
- Ability to document and analyze user requirements.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with application end-users
- Ability to provide mentoring and facilitate teamwork.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
This position assists in the execution of the Department of Financial Services’ responsibilities for the Florida PALM Project, taking direction from the Technical Architect, and serves as the Data Integration Team Manager for the Project. This position deals with complex policies and procedures associated with the implementation of a financial management solution (FMS). It requires technical knowledge of FLAIR and other Florida Financial Management Information System (FFMIS) subsystems and general knowledge regarding financial management practices and procedures.
This position exercises discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance. This position provides consultation and expert advice to management and carries out major assignments independently. Incumbent duties include but are not limited to:
- Assisting agency information technology staff with understanding Florida PALM technical requirements (e.g., interfaces, connectivity, conversions, configurations, etc.)
- Ensuring the “How Met” for requirements satisfies the needed functionality.
- Ensuring the technical requirements satisfy the needed functionality.
- Making decisions on design functionality and business requirements.
- Conducting in depth analysis and documentation for system configuration and reporting.
- Completing system configuration where assigned.
- Leading functional reviews for design, testing and other related activities, where assigned.
- Developing and executing test scripts to ensure system and reporting functionality meets the functional and technical requirements.
- Assisting with user-acceptance testing sessions with state agencies and enterprise partners.
- Assisting agencies and enterprise partners in understanding business process change impacts.
- Assisting in training state agencies and enterprise partners.
- Manage Data Integration Team efforts to assist with data conversions, including the collection and organization of data.
- Manage Data Integration Team efforts to develop and assist development of ad hoc queries to assist in reconciling accounts, identifying trends and other analysis as needed.
- Identifying risk and issues, design requirements, or otherwise
- Managing deliverables and work products to ensure compliance with the Project PMP and schedule.
- Providing input on activities to include in the Project schedule.
- Providing weekly updates to the Projects PMO on assigned schedule items
If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.
The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.