Deputy Director, Digital Identity Program CEA Level B

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The California Department of Technology (CDT) is seeking a skilled and analytical professional to join our Enterprise Product Support team as a System Administrator (Information Technology Specialist I).

This position provides technical and analytical support for enterprise software products and systems that support CDT operations and statewide customers.

Under the general direction of the Chief Digital Strategy Officer, Office of Digital Services (ODS), the Deputy Director of the Digital Identity Program will be responsible for leading the statewide digital identity program. The Digital  sets forth policy, guidelines, deployment, and customer engagement of digital identity solutions across the state of California to ensure that California residents can access digital services and create opportunities.

In partnership with State of California departments and agencies, the program also helps facilitate effectiveness and efficiency in state of California digital service delivery. The program provides a consistent, secure, privacy enabled, reliable, and consent-based method to authenticate and identify a California resident when that resident accesses the subset of digital state services.

• 30% Lead the Digital  and program while handling the coordination amongst participating departments statewide. Responsible for the management and deployment of the Digital , its security, reliability and its ability to be implemented statewide. Serve as the executive leader of the technical development of the Digital Identity ecosystem on the CDT side as well as keep stakeholders statewide informed and updated on the Digital identity program.
  
  The CEA will serve as an executive strategic product and policy leader of the Digital identity program.
• 30% Coordinate and engage with privacy, emerging technology, nonprofit, and international organizations. Gather and assess feedback from Digital identity stakeholders. Oversee and develop policies and legal frameworks to enable acceptance of digital identities, while protecting user privacy and digital rights, collaborating with the Governor's Office, Legislature, state agencies, counties and other government entities to develop cross-organization standardization. Responsible for the implementation of Identity Management, Privacy Engineering, Single Sign On, a distributed authentication system for the Digital identity program, and external communications as it relates to the program
• 30% Serve as a member of the Department’s Executive staff, providing guidance and direction regarding Digital identity policy and guidelines for the state of California. Update California legislature as appropriate. Effectively communicate relevant policies and governance to assist department executives in making decisions. Forge strong partnerships with Legislators, Chief Information Officers, (CIOs), Agency Information Officers (AIOs), agency secretary and undersecretaries, directors, executives, the Governor's Office and customer departments, as well as other key stakeholders to stabilize and reduce risk to the digital identity program.
• 10% Provide executive oversight of the Office’s personnel management and administrative responsibilities; evaluate direct reports on completion of their administrative responsibilities; develop and update duty statements as needed, establish performance expectations, complete individual development plans annually, complete probationary reports on a timely basis, and other performance management activities including Department of Technology Deputy Director of the Digital Identity Program (ODS) Duty Statement 03/2026 adherence to the State’s progressive discipline policy including taking corrective or disciplinary action as necessary;
  
  ensure Office management makes informed and defensible personnel management decisions in accordance with department and State policies, personnel-related laws, civil service rules, and collective bargaining agreements; effectively contribute to the department’s equal employment opportunity objectives.
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