Utility Data Systems Administrator

<p style="margin: 0 0 9pt; text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0 0 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong data-pasted="true">MOS Code: None</strong></p><p style="margin: 0 0 9pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="color: inherit;">Education and Experience</span></u><span style="color: inherit;">: </span><span style="color: inherit;">Bachelor's Degree or higher, in Business or Public Administration, Management, Accounting, Project Management, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field and four (4) years of experience in infrastructure design, implementation of program/project management business process improvement including two (2) years of supervisory or lead experience.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="color: inherit;">Licenses and Certificates:</span></u><span style="color: inherit;"> Valid Texas Class “C” Driver’s License or equivalent from another state by time of appointment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 0.0001pt; color: inherit; text-align: justify">Under general direction, plan, analyze, and manage the organization's enterprise systems and all associated sub-systems. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify"><span style="color: inherit">Plan, analyze, and manage the organization's business systems and all associated subsystems. Involves: Review systems operations to define functional requirements, map business processes, and identify areas for improvement and automation. Analyze existing systems and recommend solutions to maximize existing technology.</span> <span style="color: inherit">Recommend software upgrades, direct implementation activities to include testing efforts to assure project goals and objectives are achieved. Review, develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and training plans for all systems and all related interfacing systems and hardware. Prepare and review request for proposal, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work, hardware, and software standards based on organizational needs. Lead and manage scripting and queries, reports, and data validity testing for systems. Manage and prioritize all aspects of the systems and services. Schedule and lead monthly system and service update meetings using dashboards or key performance indicators.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify"><span style="color: inherit">Review, research, and recommend service process implementation. Involves: Make recommendations on technological products, equipment, systems, and services to support the business’ infrastructure needs. Conduct research and make recommendation on technological products. Coordinate with subject matter experts, to design, organize, and construct third-party interfaces. Collaborate with project team members and departments for development of new systems.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify"><span style="color: inherit">Manage operations and provide administrative support. Involves: Plan, implement and direct the functions for a section, program or defined functional area. Provide leadership and overall direction and establish work and program priorities. Monitor work progress and oversee department operations.</span><span style="color: inherit"> Investigate, respond to and resolve sensitive and complex inquiries and complaints.  Respond to questions from others within the department or other departments for information and interpretation.</span></p><p style="margin: 0 0 12pt; text-align: justify"><span style="color: inherit">Supervise assigned personnel. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes.</span><span style="color: inherit"> </span></p><br><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-pasted="true" data-userway-s7-styled="true">For complete job specification, click <a data-fr-linked="true" href="https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/elpaso/classspecs/newprint/1538738" data-uw-rm-brl="PR" data-uw-original-href="https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/elpaso/classspecs/newprint/1754298" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-uw-rm-vglnk="" data-uw-rm-ext-link="">here.</a><br><br></div><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-userway-s7-styled="true">Note: This is an unclassified contract position.</div><br><span data-teams="true" data-pasted="true">This is a new recruitment and must reapply if still interested.</span><br><br><div style="text-align: justify;" data-userway-s7-styled="true"><strong style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;">Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately.  This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.</strong></div><br>Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) <strong data-userway-s7-styled="true">prior </strong>to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit <a href="https://www.naces.org/members" target="_blank" title="https://www.naces.org/members" data-uw-rm-brl="PR" data-uw-original-href="https://www.naces.org/members" data-uw-rm-ext-link="" data-userway-s7-styled="true">www.naces.org/members</a> for more information.<div style="text-align: justify;"><br style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;"></div><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-userway-s7-styled="true"><span style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;">A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.</span></div><br><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-userway-s7-styled="true"><span style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;">To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history.  We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.  </span></div><br><div style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-userway-s7-styled="true"><span style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;">Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.</span></div>

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