Information Technology Specialist I (N390)

Salary Range: $56.42-$81.40 per hour

SUMMARY

The Los Angeles County Department of Homeless Services and Housing (HSH) consolidates our countywide response to homelessness. The driving force behind HSH is increasing accountability and transparency, improving care for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and streamlining collaboration with partners including services providers, the County’s 88 cities, and unincorporated areas to deliver high-quality, life-saving care.  Staff schedules are based on business need and may include the option of a hybrid work schedule where employees work remotely and from the office.

Positions allocable to this class act as a consultant to departmental management, or act as an information technology project manager or act as a specialist in a particular area of applications development, database administration, operating systems, information system analysis, or network systems.  Incumbents possess extensive knowledge in a specialized field of information technology (IT) and apply advanced methodologies, principles, and concepts to coordinate major projects, analyze new or existing system issues, evaluate and recommend new products and technologies, and identify and resolve complex problems. Incumbents also utilize excellent written and oral communication skills to coordinate projects and activities among agency staff, outside vendors/contractors, and County managers.

Acts as a consultant, technical expert, systems architect, or a project manager in a departmental Information Technology organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Provides systems development or software consulting to departmental project teams and user management in a highly specialized field of information systems design and development.

Develops and documents enterprise system architecture for the department.

Reviews systems proposals for conformance to standards and integration with the documented enterprise systems architecture.

Reviews proposed systems designs to ensure that design criteria are compatible with long-range development plans and methodology and provide the flexibility required by foreseeable future changes in systems requirements.

Analyzes system performance data and projects computer workloads for purposes of capacity planning and management.

Develops requirements and specifications for specialized and complex programs and systems.

Performs feasibility studies to determine whether to re-engineer existing applications, develop new applications, or to purchase commercial software applications.

Reviews the work of consultants and vendors to ensure that contract work meets departmental technical requirements and is compatible with enterprise architecture.

Develops strategic and long-range information systems plans.

May supervise or lead other information technology staff as required.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Two years of experience, within the last three years, at the level of Principal Application Developer, ...