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Chief Technology Officer
Social Security Administration · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the agency's lead expert on technology strategy, innovation, and modernization initiatives to the Social Security Administration's Commissioner and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CTO provides hands-on technical leadership; actively participates in architecture, design, coding, debugging, and code reviews across CIO product portfolio; and provides real-time guidance to engineering teams on complex challenges.
What You'll Do
- →The CTO strategically advances the modernization of mission-critical systems, digital services, cloud and platform technologies, cybersecurity architecture, data and AI enablement, and enterprise infrastructure supporting the administration of Social Security programs and services to the public.
- →The CTO collaborates with the agency's CIO and senior agency officials to communicate SSA's technology vision and strategy ensuring that agency architecture can support the growing and evolving needs of the enterprise.
- →Additionally, the CTO defines the agency's overall technology strategy and vision, ensuring alignment with the agency's mission, business goals, and objectives.
- →Integrates these capabilities to accelerate development, improves product features, and enhances internal tooling. --Engineering Culture: Fosters a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture focused on craftsmanship, continuous learning, and delivery of high-quality software.
- →Eliminates unnecessary process overhead while maintaining rigor. --Risk & Quality Management: Oversees technical risk, security, scalability, and performance across all products.
- →Leads incident response and long-term reliability improvements. ---Talent & Team Development: Attracts, retains, and grows top technical talent.
- →Conducts technical interviews, coding assessments, and ongoing skills evaluations.
Requirements
- ✓To be considered minimally qualified for this position, candidates must have had responsible professional experience at a senior level (equivalent to the GS-15 in either the General Schedule (GS) or a comparable pay plan).
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓May be subject to a 1-year probationary period (unless already completed).
- ✓Federal employees must be in good standing.
- ✓Federal employees must have a successful performance rating.
- ✓Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
- ✓May be subject to pre-employment and random drug tests Must file an Executive Financial Disclosure Report OGE-278e within 30 days of appointment and annually from then on.
- ✓This position is covered under the post-employment restrictions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (PL 95-521).
- ✓You may be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty.
- ✓Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
- ✓There are three key documents that contain important information about your rights and obligations.
Personality Fit
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