This position manages a staff of professional and technical employees to plan, develop, transfer, maintain and modify computer applications that directly or indirectly affect health and human functions for DHHS, including applications that provide for HIE provision of related services. In addition to interacting with business partners, this position coordinates with IT directors and other IT managers, and representatives from other state agencies and the federal government. Through subordinates and directly, this position documents requirements, plans, designs, develops, tests, implements, and maintains software solutions. This position is required to perform application development and provide training to subordinate staff. This position, in coordination with the Service Management and Project Management Sections, is also responsible for the development, negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution and performance management of vendor contracts for health and human applications.  
 
This position is dedicated to support of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant activities specifically as part the bioterrorisrn and preparedness needs. This position is essential to the success of the state efforts to prepare for and respond to various methods of terrorist attack. The position ensures that associate programs have immediate, reliable, continuous access to the information and IT resources required to protect and promote the health of the citizens of North Carolina and especially before, during, and after human-instigated or natural disasters.
 
Duties also include participation in strategic and tactical planning with Business Partners, Vendors, and organizational unit management; participating in project planning and estimating efforts; consultation and planning for specific modifications and enhancements to production applications/information systems; monitoring technical effort activities for adherence to schedules, milestones and deliverables; making recommendations to management on enterprise development practices, standards and tools; mentoring and training other organizational unit applications development staff in standard development practices, standards and tools; providing status and time reporting; monitoring efforts for quality assurance and adherence to state, departmental and divisional standards and procedures; and application/information system assessment and performance monitoring to avoid preventable interruption of production and to provide optimum quality service to the clients. Specific/specialty duties will be assigned to this position as required to meet business needs.