Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.
About Indiana Office of Technology:
The Indiana Office of Technology provides cost-effective, secure, consistent, reliable enterprise-technology services to our partner agencies so that they can better serve our mutual customer, the Hoosier taxpayer. IOT will also act as the technology and solution enabler for the State, helping its partner agencies achieve business objectives and innovation.
Role Overview:
Reporting to the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT) Chief Information Officer, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) serves as the State’s lead technology strategist and architect. This role is responsible for shaping and advancing the State’s technical vision, guiding long‑term innovation, and ensuring that technology initiatives align with statewide strategic goals. The CTO partners with executive leadership to drive organizational growth through the effective use of technology, oversees the development and evolution of enterprise architecture, and ensures technology standards and compliance are consistently upheld. In addition, the CTO leads a team of senior technical architects, leveraging emerging technologies and trend insights to position the State for future opportunities, increased efficiency, and resilient service delivery.
Salary:
The salary for this position traditionally starts at $180,000.00 but may be commensurate with education or work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.
Essential duties
- Define the technology strategy, vision and roadmap for IOT in conjunction and alignment with the overall State and State agency’s digital business strategy and constituent citizen services.
- Identify emerging technologies that would help the State deliver its digital business strategy and constituent citizen services.
- Lead technology innovation to explore how emerging technologies can transform the State.
- Leverage trendspotting to anticipate technological and non technological developments, enabling the organization to proactively prepare for and navigate change and disruption.
- Decide which technologies to invest in and procure, including making the business case.
- Evolve the architecture to support the introduction of new technologies to enable the digital business strategy.
- Work in a consultative fashion with other IOT groups and state agencies as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
- Oversee research and development (R&D) initiatives.
- Monitor technology and social trends that could impact the State of Indiana.
- Collaborate with peer IOT CXO’s on strategic decisions and technology governance.
- Establish, communicate, and uphold IOT’s and the State’s technology strategy across all State agencies, ensuring consistent adherence to technology standards and compliance regulations statewide.
- Manage vendor relations.
Digital Business
- Define statewide technology strategy in partnership with the State CDEO and ensure alignment with the State’s digital business goals.
- Identify emerging technologies that advance constituent services and transform the business model.
- Anticipate technological and non‑technological developments to proactively navigate disruption.
- Ensure architecture adapts to support long‑term statewide strategy.
- Work with State CIO and CXO peers on statewide decisions and governance.
Business Development
- In partnership with IOT CRDO work with senior leaders across the Executive Branch and external stakeholders.
- Develop technology standards and regulations that provide inherent value to State agencies.
- Enforce those statewide technology standards and regulations when necessary.
Innovation
- Explore how emerging technologies can transform the State.
- Direct applied research to advance IT capabilities.
- Design future‑oriented architectures that support new technologies.
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
This position is exempt from overtime compensation for additional work hours that may be required to complete essential functions or other assigned work. Exempt employees may work more than 75 hours in a pay period without additional compensation and must report a minimum of 75 hours per pay period of work hours and/or paid leave taken to receive their base biweekly salary.
Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the following:
- Extensive experience leading day-to-day operations on an IT enterprise solution (or solutions), with preference for a candidate with prior experience with overall IT operations leadership in an organization at any scale.
- Strong experience in analyzing IT solutions and making potentially difficult choices on IT product offerings, demonstrating knowledge of IT enterprise effectiveness, information security compliance, and budget/cost effectiveness.
- Strong experience engaging with executive/corporate-level audiences on their IT needs, with emphasis on translating business needs into technical delivery, eliciting and understanding needs and concerns, and informing non-technical customers about delivery options that balance individual-agency needs with enterprise constraints.
- Strong experience working closely with and collaborating with IT leadership at the highest levels of an agency, enterprise, business, or organization.
- Strong experience in the personnel management of other senior managers and/or subject matter experts in information technology, information security, or related fields.
- Strong knowledge of, and documented experience with, exceptional delivery of IT products and services to a wide range of users of varying business needs, with an emphasis on (but not restricted to) successful delivery in one or more level of government.
- Ability to delegate work, set clear direction, and manage workflow.
- Ability to effectively give feedback, provide guidance or corrective action, coach, and develop employee skillsets.
- Extensive experience with understanding, developing, refining, and eliminating key performance indicators and quality service measures relevant to information technology, information security, and/or information and data management at an enterprise level.
- Exceptional ability to handle multiple high-visibility, high-priority initiatives effectively, independently, and under competing constraints.
- Exceptional ability to manage and address organizational or mission changes that impact service delivery, potentially on short notice and/or with limited information (including, but not limited to, outages), as well as the management of senior and staff officers tasked with identifying, remediating, and communicating the change.
- Strong experience managing large, complex budgets for multiple product catalog service offerings.
- Ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
A degree is not required. However, at least 12 years of experience applying the outlined knowledge, skills, and abilities in a similar role may be considered.
This role may provide direct supervision for one or more staff members.
Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:
The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes:
- Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans
- Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards
- Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution
- Deferred compensation 457(b) account (similar to 401(k) plan) with employer match
- Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options
- A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to:
- 150 hours of paid New Parent Leave and up to eight weeks of paid Childbirth Recovery Leave for eligible mothers
- Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave
- Combined 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off
- 12 paid holidays, 14 in election years
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Group life insurance
- Referral Bonus program
- Employee assistance program that allows for covered behavioral health visits
- Qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Free Parking for most positions
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruiting, selecting, developing, and promoting employees based on individual ability and job performance. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process as well as perform the essential functions of a role. If you require reasonable accommodations to complete this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at [email protected].
