Director of IT Services

Mode of work: Fully Onsite
Location: Jackson, Mississippi 

Description of the job functions the contractor will be expected to perform.

The State of Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) administers the state's Medicaid program, providing healthcare coverage to eligible Mississippians. DOM's Office of Information Technology Management supports the agency's mission through enterprise technology services spanning cloud infrastructure, networking, service desk operations, cybersecurity, application integration, and vendor management.

DOM is undergoing a significant technology modernization effort that includes migration of enterprise workloads to cloud platforms, implementation of federal interoperability mandates, adoption of cloud-native services, and restructuring of IT service delivery operations. These concurrent transformation initiatives require sustained, seniorlevel technical leadership to ensure continuity of operations, effective vendor coordination, and successful execution of modernization objectives.

The purpose of this Statement of Work (SOW) is to procure staff augmentation services for one (1) Director of IT

Services to provide executive-level leadership and operational oversight for DOM's enterprise IT Infrastructure

Management (ITIM) and Delivery Services functions. The contractor shall serve as a key member of DOM's IT leadership team, reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and/or Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and shall be responsible for the day-to-day management of infrastructure operations, cloud services, vendor relationships, service desk operations, and technology modernization initiatives.

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

The contractor shall provide leadership and operational management across the following functional domains:

Enterprise Cloud Services; Network, Voice & Telecommunications; IT Service Desk & End-User Support; Infrastructure & Operations; Cyberscurity Partnership & Compliance; Vendor & Contract Management; and IT Services Management & Governance. The scope encompasses both ongoing operational responsibilities and active modernization initiatives.

Enterprise Cloud Services

·        Provide strategic and operational leadership for DOM's enterprise cloud environment, including

·        infrastructure provisioning, platform services, identity integration, monitoring, and capacity

·        management.

·        Oversee cloud migration activities, including coordination with cloud professional services teams,

·        managed migration vendors, and DOM internal teams.

·        Establish and enforce governance for cloud adoption, architecture standards, cost management,

·        security compliance, and operational procedures.

·        Manage cloud account provisioning, vendor onboarding to cloud environments, and service ticket

·        workflows for cloud service requests.

·        Develop strategies for disaster recovery, high availability, and technology resiliency within cloud environments.

·        Monitor cloud consumption, performance, and costs; identify and implement optimization opportunities.

·        Provide strategic and operational leadership for DOM's enterprise cloud environment, including

·        infrastructure provisioning, platform services, identity integration, monitoring, and capacity

·        management.

Network, Voice & Telecommunications

·        Direct enterprise network and telecommunications operations supporting statewide Medicaid business

·        functions, including LAN/WAN, wireless, Internet connectivity, remote access, and unified

·        communications.

·        Oversee load balancing and DNS provisioning for application environments.

·        Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, managed service providers, and technology vendors to

·        ensure service-level requirements are met.

·        Lead modernization of network infrastructure to support cloud services, mobility, and evolving security

·        requirements.

·        Manage network access restoration and firewall rule change requests through ITS coordination.

IT Service Desk & End-User Support

·        Lead the enterprise IT service desk and end-user support organization, including client support

·        technicians and supervisory staff.

·        Establish and monitor service desk KPIs: first-contact resolution, response times, resolution times,

·        backlog management, and customer satisfaction.

·        Oversee incident escalation, major incident management, and post-incident review processes.

·        Manage ITS Service Center ticket workflows for DOM, including cloud and hosted application service

·        categories.

·        Develop self-service capabilities, knowledge management, and automation to improve employee

·        technology experience.

Infrastructure & Operations

·        Provide leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, including compute, storage, virtualization,

·        operating systems, backup, monitoring, and related platforms.

·        Ensure critical infrastructure is monitored and maintained to established availability and performance

·        standards.

·        Lead infrastructure modernization and technology lifecycle management, including hardware refresh

·        strategies and capacity planning.

·        Establish effective backup, recovery, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities.

·        Manage assessment artifact collection and compliance documentation for infrastructure domains.

Cybersecurity Partnership & Compliance

·        Partner with the CIO/CTO and cybersecurity teams to ensure infrastructure and services meet state

·        and federal security requirements.

·        Ensure IT operations comply with HIPAA, CMS, and Mississippi ITS security policies.

·        Support implementation of security controls across cloud, network, infrastructure, and endpoint

·        environments.

·        Participate in risk assessments, audits, compliance reviews, vulnerability remediation, and security

·        initiatives.

·        Coordinate with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) and ITS on shared security documentation

·        and architecture standards.

Vendor & Contract Management

·        Provide executive oversight of technology vendors, managed service providers, and cloud partners.

·        Lead vendor coordination for active contracts and procurement activities, including SOW development,

·        brand specification forms, and contract negotiations.

·        Monitor vendor performance, deliverables, financial commitments, and contractual compliance.

·        Manage vendor escalations and remediation of significant service issues.

·        Support IT procurement processes, including solicitation review, proposal evaluation, and vendor

·        selection.

IT Service Management & Governance

·        Establish operational governance processes for incident, problem, change, configuration, request, and

·        service-level management.

·        Develop and maintain an enterprise service catalog defining technology services, ownership, service

·        levels, and support models.

·        Develop dashboards and executive-level reporting that communicate IT service health, risks,

·        performance trends, and improvement initiatives.

·        Lead Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development and maintenance for ITIM domains.

·        Facilitate weekly status reporting and leadership coordination meetings.