Primary Location:
9700 Wade Boulevard, Frisco, Texas, 75035
We are searching for candidates that meet the required qualifications and experience and are able to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Job Summary:
Lead the development, implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement of technology service management practices, processes, controls, and supporting capabilities across the department. This role is responsible for improving the consistency and transparency of technology services, coordinating technology governance and compliance activities, supporting enterprise technology risk management, and enabling sustainable technology-driven transformation and innovations.
Required Qualifications:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Lead the development and implementation of department-wide service management, operational excellence, service reliability, and continual improvement practices.
Champion the practical adoption of ITIL principles and other recognized best practices to improve service quality, operational consistency, accountability, and customer experience.
Establish, measure, and improve service management processes, including incident management, problem management, change enablement, knowledge management, configuration management, and continuous improvement.
Lead change governance and Change Advisory Board practices to improve decision quality, reduce operational risk, streamline approvals, and increase the predictability of technology changes.
Develop operational readiness requirements for new and significantly changed technology services, including documentation, monitoring, support models, training, testing, and risk assessment.
Provide leadership and direction to assigned staff responsible for service management, process improvement, reporting, knowledge management, and operational excellence initiatives.
Develop and monitor service performance measures, dashboards, and scorecards, including availability, incident trends, recovery time, recurring issues, service readiness, and customer experience.
Apply process analysis, workflow optimization, automation, artificial intelligence, and other emerging capabilities to improve service quality, efficiency, decision-making, and operational predictability.
Facilitate cross-functional service reviews, operational performance reviews, change reviews, incident reviews, and improvement-planning sessions.
Identify service risks, operational weaknesses, process gaps, and improvement opportunities and develop practical recommendations and corrective-action plans.
Support strategic initiatives and technology-enabled transformations by ensuring that new services are reliable, supportable, measurable, documented, risk-informed, and operationally sustainable.
Build partnerships with institutional stakeholders to understand service needs, recurring challenges, and opportunities for innovative technology solutions.
Represent Technology Services on institutional committees, governance groups, project teams, and strategic initiatives.
Serve as a facilitator and advisor for service management, operational excellence, reliability, process improvement, change enablement, and operational readiness.
Supplemental Functions
Perform other duties as assigned.
Perform all duties to maintain all standards in accordance with college policies, procedures, and Core Values.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of IT service management principles, practices, and frameworks.
Knowledge of technology operations, service reliability, monitoring, observability, cybersecurity, cloud services, infrastructure, applications, and enterprise support environments.
Knowledge of process improvement frameworks, workflow design, automation, performance measurement, and organizational change management.
Knowledge of technology governance, operational risk management, audit support, control documentation, and remediation tracking.
Knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, standards, and frameworks affecting technology services in public higher education.
Knowledge of IT service management platforms, monitoring and observability tools, workflow technologies, configuration management databases, knowledge systems, automation, and reporting tools.
Written, verbal, visual, interpersonal, facilitation, presentation, and influencing skills.
Strategic planning, leadership, team building, coaching, project management, and organizational skills.
Research, analytical, assessment, problem-solving, data analysis, and performance measurement skills.
Ability to lead through influence and establish shared accountability across multiple teams and organizational functions.
Ability to translate operational challenges, risks, and institutional needs into practical processes and measurable improvements.
Ability to improve operational performance while balancing service reliability, customer experience, risk, governance, and innovation.
Ability to evaluate and implement automation and emerging technologies that improve technology service delivery.
Ability to manage multiple complex priorities, initiatives, incidents, and deadlines.
Physical Demands, Working Conditions and Physical Effort
Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly having to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for the Sedentary Work category and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated Light Work. Positions in this class typically require talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions. Relatively free from unpleasant environmental conditions or hazards. Office environment. Occasional physical effort required.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, management information systems, business administration, engineering, organizational leadership, or a related field from an accredited institution.
Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in technology operations, IT service management, engineering operations, production control, site reliability engineering, service reliability, process improvement, or a related area OR an equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.
Three (3) years of supervisory, management, program leadership, or cross-functional leadership experience.
Preferred
Ten (10) years of relevant experience.
Master’s degree in information technology, business administration, engineering management, organizational leadership, or a related field from an accredited institution.
Licenses and Certifications
Possess one or more of the following certifications:
ITIL certification
Site Reliability Engineering certification
Project Management Professional
Lean Six Sigma Belt
Prosci Change Management Certification
Cloud, infrastructure, monitoring, or service management platform certification
**This position is Security Sensitive; therefore, candidates will be subject to a criminal background check.**
The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, as duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. Collin College reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made by Collin College, at its discretion, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required & Preferred Qualifications (if applicable):
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of the positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Fair Labor Standards Act (exempt/non-exempt) is designated by position. The employer actively supports Americans with Disabilities Act and will consider reasonable accommodations.
***This is a Security Sensitive position. Therefore, candidates will be subject to a criminal background check.***
Compensation Type:
Salary
Employment Type:
Full time
Hiring Minimum
$104,392.00
Hiring Maximum
$127,307.00
Compensation is determined based on experience.
**Application submission deadline is 12am of the date listed.**
09/09/2026
Collin College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.
