AHCCCS

Address:  150 N. 18th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85007

Must Reside in Arizona.

Salary:  $133,000 - $143,000

Grade: 32

FLSA Status: Exempt

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the agency’s business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures.

A career in public service awaits you. COME JOIN OUR TEAM!

A great benefit of working for the State of Arizona is a fantastic work/life balance. State employees enjoy challenging work, popular remote work options, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, and career growth opportunities. The State of Arizona ranks #30 in Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America! This recognition honors organizations that champion employee wellbeing through innovative health programs, inclusive wellness initiatives, and a culture rooted in care.

The Executive Consultant Senior provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for the Application Development team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions that align with organizational goals. This role is responsible for managing resources, budgets, and timelines, driving continuous improvement, and fostering a collaborative, customer centric culture. The Executive Consultant Senior acts as a subject matter expert, advisor to executive leadership, and mentor to development staff, ensuring alignment with both state and federal guidelines where applicable.

Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Manages and directs application development leaders. Develops effective and strong business relationships. Manages and works with vendors and the associated software/systems contracts and ensures that development and implementation occur on schedule and within budget. Proactively communicates with clients, peers, and executive management to foster collaboration and positive information flow.
• Develop and monitor the team-level budget and will report the budget to the executive team. This position will manage, monitor and track project-related costs and other relevant activities performed by the department. Assist the Deputy CIO as needed.
• Define immediate and long-term goals, priorities, and operational plan to ensure team goals are aligned with the goals and priorities of the organization. Drive innovation by adopting emerging technologies and promoting automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Advocate technology changes that provide value and support of Agency goals; champions a cohesive and consistent approach to improvement in the organization across all platforms. Provide technical operational support and ensure compliance obligations are met throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identifies major resource constraints that impact implementation of desired organizational goals. Provides input to functional and departmental strategy. Plans work activities, prioritizes, set goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with business partners, product owners, and IT leadership to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. Respond promptly to customer needs, solicit feedback, and foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of departmental strategies and execute functional business plans. Collaborate with senior IT leadership and business stakeholders to define application roadmaps and modernization initiatives.

Knowledge:
• Deep understanding of all facets of management and leadership, as well as a vision for the specific business program/ function being managed
• Thorough working knowledge of most infrastructure technologies and in-house developed applications utilized in the enterprise
• Thorough working knowledge of the organization’s methodologies and tools
• Thorough working knowledge of organization’s policies and procedures
• Working knowledge of interrelationships among various internal and external organizational functions

Skills:
• Advocates technology changes that provide value and support agency goals
• Champions a cohesive and consistent approach to improvement in the organization
• Priorities and plans work activities
• Set goals and objectives
• Time efficiently, communicates activities and results as appropriate
• Plans the work of others to sustain agency objectives
• Identifies required resources
• Trains, schedules and monitors resources
• Leads hiring process

Abilities:
• Balance, prioritize and organize multiple tasks
• Work collaboratively in teams and across organizations
• Synthesize feedback and adjust plans accordingly
• Build strong relationships inside and outside the organization
• Manage medium to large teams
• Evaluate and test emerging technologies
• Apply creative solutions to business problems to ensure business needs are most effectively met
• Understand and anticipate needs and priorities of both internal and external customers
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Work from a virtual office setting

Minimum:
• Five or more years executive management experience providing direct supervision and overseeing the daily activities of a section OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline and eight or more years of responsible work experience in application development to include management experience or leadership role.

Preferred:
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline. Experience with enterprise application development, infrastructure technologies, in-house developed applications, and organizational methodologies and tools.

• Successfully pass fingerprint background check, prior employment verifications and reference checks; employment is contingent upon completion of the above-mentioned process and the agency’s ability to reasonably accommodate any restrictions.
• Travel may be required for State business. Employees who drive on state business must complete any required driver training (see Arizona Administrative Code R2-10-207.12.)

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

Among the many benefits of a career with the State of Arizona, there are:
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid Vacation and Sick time off (13 and 12 days per year respectively) - start earning it your 1st day (prorated for part-time employees)
• Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child. Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here.
• Other Leaves - Bereavement, civic duty, and military.
• A top-ranked retirement program with lifetime pension benefits
• A robust and affordable insurance plan, including medical, dental, life, and disability insurance
• Participation eligibility in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (must meet qualifications)
• RideShare and Public Transit Subsidy
• A variety of learning and career development opportunities

By providing the option of a full-time or part-time remote work schedule, employees enjoy improved work/life balance, report higher job satisfaction, and are more productive. Remote work is a management option and not an employee entitlement or right. An agency may terminate a remote work agreement at its discretion.

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

Lifetime Pension Benefit Program
• Administered through the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS)
• Defined benefit plan that provides for life-long income upon retirement.
• Required participation for Long-Term Disability (LTD) and ASRS Retirement plan.
• Pre-taxed payroll contributions begin after a 27-week waiting period (prior contributions may waive the waiting period).

Deferred Retirement Compensation Program
• Voluntary participation.
• Program administered through Nationwide.
• Tax-deferred retirement investments through payroll deductions.

Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by emailing careers@azahcccs.gov.
Requests should be made as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation. The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer.