OMB is hiring for a deputy federal chief information officer
The Office of Management and Budget job listing was published earlier this week and is open through Feb. 24. In a Thursday LinkedIn post, Federal CIO Gregory Barbaccia shared the opening and said “If you know how to run large systems, cut through noise, and turn strategy into execution across government scale, this is that job.”
“Serious mission. Real authority. Zero patience for theater,” he added.
According to the job posting, the deputy federal CIO would be responsible, in part, for “designing, implementing, and maintaining effective IT performance measures and operational risks for the Federal Government and ensuring that agency reviews are conducted in accordance with established policies, standards, and regulations.”
The post has been without a permanent official since former Deputy Federal CIO Drew Myklegard departed OMB last September, though the website for the CIO Council lists Jay Teitelbaum as holding the position in an acting capacity. Myklegard joined the White House office in January 2022 and was named acting deputy federal CIO that March. The agency then elevated him to the permanent role in October 2022.
Since being named federal CIO at the start of the second Trump administration, Barbaccia has placed a strong emphasis on enhancing the delivery of government services. In an interview with Nextgov/FCW earlier this month, he said that driving cultural change across the government was key to modernizing IT operations.
“CIO meetings from my organization used to be OMB putting out boring information,” he said at the time. “Now we're engaging. I work for the [agency] CIOs. It's my job to make them successful, so we need to kind of reverse that information flow. I need to be able to get information from the field to understand who's doing interesting things policy-wise, and what makes sense for me to deploy as policy across the government.”
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