Business Alignment Manager (Senior Public Service Administrator, Opt. 3)

Business Alignment Manager (Senior Public Service Administrator, Opt. 3)

We continually strive for a workforce that reflects the growing diversity within the State of Illinois. A variety of employee backgrounds, perspectives, ideas and experiences are crucial to our ability to most effectively serve the public. Bilingual skills welcome.

Position Overview: Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment. This position serves as the Business Alignment Manager. In this role, you will lead statewide enterprise application alignment by driving governance, optimizing business processes, and advancing well-defined, data-driven technology capabilities. Additionally, you will provide decisive leadership across cross-functional task forces and the Enterprise Application Services Project Management Office, ensuring initiatives meet compliance standards, deliver measurable value, and strengthen operational performance. By integrating technology, policy, and people, you will champion a unified enterprise vision that boosts efficiency, enhances accountability, and supports innovation across the organization.

Essential Functions: Subject to management approval, serves as the Business Alignment Manager, providing leadership in structuring statewide enterprise applications through effective governance, streamlined business processes, and well-defined business information. Serves as the lead program director for the Enterprise Application Services (EAS) Project Management Office, providing immediate and decisive leadership for enterprise-level application initiatives. Prepares financial reporting and documentation supporting compliance with industry standards and the Department of Innovation and Technology's best practices, methodologies, and tools. Serves as full-line supervisor. Serves as manager/project leader of various agency subject matter experts (SMEs) providing expertise, guidance and direction to staff relative to the project activities. Keeps abreast of new developments in the information technology field by continuing education through online training platforms, meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures. Performs other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications: Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to four (4) years of college with course work in management information systems, risk compliance, fiscal reporting and project management or directly related Information Technology field. Requires prior experience equivalent to four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in management information systems, risk compliance, fiscal reporting and project management or directly related Information Technology in a public or business organization. Requires three (3) years of professional experience supervising a team of Information Technology professionals in a large and highly complex public or private IT organization.

Preferred Qualifications: Four (4) years of professional experience leading enterprise-level application governance and business alignment initiatives, including structuring statewide or multi-agency systems, streamlining business processes, defining business information standards, and ensuring alignment with risk, compliance, and operational objectives. Four (4) years of professional experience exercising delegated authority to manage complex organizational issues, including resolving administrative challenges, implementing programmatic improvements, leading rapid-response or cross-functional task force units, and making operational decisions in sensitive or high-stakes environments. Four (4) years of professional experience conducting enterprise application evaluations and presenting business cases, including eliciting and validating requirements, identifying capability gaps, performing impact analyses, and preparing recommendations supported by quantitative or qualitative evidence. Four (4) years of professional experience planning, directing, and monitoring enterprise projects or programs, including project management leadership, development of goals and metrics, resource assignment, adherence to enterprise governance standards (e.g., EPMO), and oversight of policies, procedures, and system integrations. Four (4) years of professional experience representing organizational leadership in high-level engagements, including participation in statewide committees, negotiations with internal and external partners, collaboration with technology stakeholders, and preparation of sensitive reports, findings, correspondence, or position papers. Four (4) years of professional experience overseeing financial, compliance, and audit-related functions tied to enterprise applications, including preparing fiscal documentation, ensuring alignment with internal and external audit requirements, supporting grant or contract development, and adhering to industry standards and departmental methodologies. Four (4) years of professional experience supervising and leading multidisciplinary teams, including directing SMEs, assigning and reviewing work, providing technical and strategic guidance, coordinating cross-functional staff, and integrating project components into cohesive final deliverables.

Conditions of Employment: NOTE: Applicants must possess the ability to meet ALL of the following conditions of employment, with or without reasonable accommodation, to be considered for this position. Requires the ability to verify identity. Requires employment authorization to accept permanent full-time position with the State of Illinois. Requires the ability to pass a position specific, agency required background check and self-disclosure of criminal history. Requires ability to lift and carry objects weighing up to 20 pounds. This is considered light work as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (20 CFR 404.1567(b)). Light work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Requires ability to travel in performance of duties. Requires ability to work overtime. Requires ability to work outside of normal business hours to meet deadlines. Requires adherence to the revolving door restrictions outlined in 5 ILCS 430/5-45. Consequently, employees should be aware that in the event of receiving a non-State employment offer during state employment or within one year immediately following the termination of State employment, they are required to inform the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies (OEIG) of the Illinois Governor before accepting such non-State employment. Failure to notify the OEIG may result in the imposition of a fine. Requires compliance with the provisions outlined in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, necessitating the occupant of this position to file of a Statement of Economic Interest. Pursuant to the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act (5 ILCS 420/4A et seq.), specific state officials and employees are required to annually submit Statements of Economic Interest to the Office of the Secretary of State, which will be accessible to the public for examination and copying. Employees subject to this requirement must also file a Supplemental Statement of Economic Interest with the Executive Ethics Commission, as specified in Executive Order 15-09. Failure to submit these statements in a timely manner may result in fines and penalties. The conditions of employment listed are incorporated and/or related to any duties included in the position description. Revolving Door: Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during State employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall, prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor ("OEIG") or may be subject to a fine. Statement of Economic Interests: This position is subject to Statement of Economic Interests filing as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act.