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IT Statewide Administrator 1 (ASP 50692558)

Salary

$7,661.00 - $13,794.00 Monthly

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

OTS 121025B ERG

Department

Division of Administration-Office of Technology Services

Opening Date

12/10/2025

Closing Date

12/20/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

The Division of Administration/Office of Technology Services has a vacancy. This position is located in Architecture, Standards, and Platforms Section. This job title has an assigned pay grade of TS-321. Req. 215553

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) aims to be a responsible partner in delivering innovative, effective, and reliable solutions that support and enhance the IT functions within the Executive Branch Departments. The Office of Technology Services will work to increase the return on the State's investment in technology by promoting smart decision-making, solving problems intelligently, increasing the rate of project success, and fostering skilled and professional staff. The Administrator of Architecture, Standards, and Platforms (ASP) reports directly to the Chief Product Officer and provides strategic and operational leadership over the primary functions that enable modern application delivery and support. This includes enterprise architecture standards, design and user experience frameworks, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, hosting and orchestration platforms, and developer enablement services. This role is accountable for setting enterprise-wide direction for technology stack adoption, driving reusability and standardization across development teams, and ensuring application and infrastructure layers are resilient, observable, and scalable. This role integrates deep technical expertise with a pragmatic, service-oriented approach to meet agency needs while governing enterprise alignment, interoperability, and long-term cost-effectiveness. The role collaborates heavily with other OTS leaders, including product delivery, security, infrastructure, and agency relationship functions, to ensure platforms and applications are secure, performant, maintainable, and customer aligned.

The Division of Administration is the state government’s management arm and the hub of its financial operations. Division offices perform a wide variety of activities including the following:

+ Overseeing the state’s capital construction program

+ Working to provide state and federal grants for community development

+ Development of the state budget

+ Providing technology services

+ Giving agencies guidance in the state purchasing and contracting process as they seek goods and services

+ Administering a program that provides federal funds to help Louisiana residents recover from a series of devastating hurricanes

Minimum Qualifications

One year of the required experience for the following minimum qualifications must have been at the supervisory level or above:

Eight years of experience in information technology or administrative services; OR

Six years of full-time work experience in any field plus six years of experience in information technology or administrative services; OR

An associate’s degree in information technology plus six years of experience in information technology or administrative services; OR

A bachelor’s degree plus six years of experience in information technology or administrative services; OR

A bachelor’s degree with twenty-four semester hours in an information technology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or business analytics field plus five years of experience in information technology or administrative services; OR

A master's degree plus five years of experience in information technology or administrative services.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards the six years of full-time work experience in any field. The maximum substitution allowed is 120 semester hours which substitutes for a maximum of four years of experience in any area.

NOTE:

A certification in an approved area may be substituted for the education and/or experience requirements at the time of hire or promotion, provided the appointment is made from a Certificate of Eligibles.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=175160) .

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

Enterprise Application Architecture & Standards Governance -

Develops, maintains, and enforces architecture principles and patterns across all application development and modernization efforts. Leads technical oversight of enterprise application architecture, including domain-driven design, integration, API strategy, and reuse of core services. Chairs the architecture review groups and promotes adherence to approved technologies, frameworks, and design conventions.

Platform Engineering, DevOps & Developer Enablement -

Oversees the strategic development, operation, and continual enhancement of CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, environment provisioning, and automated testing. Manages state-hosted and hybrid cloud development platforms, including container orchestration, PaaS/IaaS environments, and infrastructure as code. Drives platform reliability and performance through modern DevOps and SRE principles (observability, resiliency, autoscaling, and rollback strategies). Ensures developers across OTS and agencies have access to secure, consistent, and performant build environments and toolchains.

Application Design, Front-End Architecture & User Experience Standards -

Leads statewide efforts to define and institutionalize user interface/UX design patterns, accessibility standards (WCAG/508), and responsive design frameworks. Establishes and maintains shared component libraries and front-end development patterns for use in all modernization projects. Promotes inclusive design thinking and works with delivery teams to ensure software is intuitive and accessible for all users.

Modernization Alignment, Strategy & Collaboration -

Partners with project delivery and customer relationship teams to align platform and architecture capabilities with ongoing and future modernization projects. Advises project teams on appropriate design patterns, scalability concerns, and long-term maintainability of application solutions. Champions an inner-source culture, encouraging cross-agency and cross-team reuse of code, patterns, and platform capabilities.

Other Duties as Required -

Supports the CIO and other key positions in statewide IT strategic planning, technology investment oversight, and cross-agency technical initiatives. May represent the State on intergovernmental architecture and DevOps working groups, public-private forums, or national technology consortiums.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: This vacancy will be filled by either a new hire or the promotion of a current, permanent-status classified employee.

Career Progression:This position does not participate in a career progression group.

Compensation: Depends on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

Louisiana is a "State as a Model Employer" for People with Disabilities.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

Prior to a new hire, a background check, including criminal record history, will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment, but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the position. A criminal history check may be conducted on employees changing positions, including promotions, demotions, details, reassignments, and transfers. Also, prospective employees may be subject to pre-employment drug testing. New hires will be subject to employment eligibility verification via the federal government's E-Verify system.

For further information about this posting, please contact:

Erica R. Gay

HR Specialist

Division of Administration/Office of Human Resources

Email: [email protected]

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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Describe your experience leading enterprise architecture governance, including how you have defined and enforced architecture standards, patterns, or technology stack conventions across diverse development teams. Provide specific examples of outcomes achieved.

02

Explain your hands-on and leadership experience with CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration platforms, and infrastructure-as-code. Identify the platforms and tools you managed and how you ensured reliability, observability, and scalability in those environments.

03

Summarize your experience establishing or implementing enterprise-level UI/UX standards, design systems, and accessibility compliance (e.g., WCAG or Section 508). Include examples of how you institutionalized these practices across teams.

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Discuss your role in application modernization initiatives, including how you have aligned architecture decisions with project delivery, advised teams on scalability and maintainability, and promoted code or component reuse.

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Provide examples of where you have represented an organization in enterprise, statewide, or cross-agency technology initiatives—such as architecture review boards, DevOps working groups, or inter-organizational technology forums.

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One year of the required experience must have been at the supervisory level or above. Please indicate which position on your application serves as supervisory. If you do not have this experience, type n/a.

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Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

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Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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