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Senior Technology Fellowship

Oklahoma Human Services

Oklahoma City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Mar 2026

💰 $165,000/yr

About the role

This position is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Senior Technology Fellowship

Annual Salary: $165,000.00 + Full State Employee Benefits

Job-Related travel is Occasional - Must possess a valid driver's license and must maintain required car insurance.

Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)

Education and experience requirements consist of a bachelor's degree plus six (6) years of relevant professional experience, including three (3) years in a supervisory or administrative capacity, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

The strongest candidates will bring 8 or more years leading technical teams in complex environments, including private sector, civic tech, or large-scale service delivery, with the capacity to rapidly review, manage and improve quality across technology programs, and deliver concrete improvements within compressed timeframes. Public sector experience is welcome but not required. Experience with systems such as Medicaid, SNAP, or child welfare is a plus.

The Opportunity

Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) is offering a 18-month Senior Technology Fellowship for an experienced technologist ready to step into a senior technology executive role at one of the state's largest and most consequential agencies. This is a defined-term engagement with a clear mandate: deliver real, measurable improvements to the technology systems and teams that support health and human services programs across Oklahoma.
If you have spent your career building and fixing complex technology systems and are ready to apply those skills toward public service, this fellowship offers a meaningful mission, and 18-month opportunity for real impact.

What You'll Be Stepping Into

Oklahoma Human Services operates technology systems that touch nearly every aspect of health and human services delivery in the state, including SNAP and child welfare. These are critical systems serving vulnerable Oklahomans, run by capable and committed teams. What we are seeking is senior technology leadership that can partner with government leaders, assess clearly, prioritize effectively, and deliver visibly.
You will own a real portfolio with real complexity: critical priorities, vendor relationships that need active management, and program-specific challenges including SNAP error rate reduction and child welfare information systems improvement. The technology organization spans applications, infrastructure, data platforms, devices, and core IT services and operates within state and federal compliance frameworks that add both constraint and accountability.

What Success Looks Like in 12 Months

Technology teams that are healthy, accountable, and clear on their priorities, with team leaders who understand their roles, opportunities, and gaps, and who can translate technical realities into decisions
A technology roadmap that is actively maintained, tied to agency strategy, and used to make prioritization decisions across the current project backlog
Measurable progress on agency-identified priority programs, including reduction of the SNAP error rate, as an early proof point of delivery discipline
A prioritization framework in place so that leadership can make defensible decisions about which of the competing projects advance and which wait
Improve visibility into technology spending, vendor value, and investment tradeoffs so OKDHS leadership can make informed decisions about where to stabilize, defer or accelerate work

Key Responsibilities

Deliver Results for Frontline Staff and Agency Programs

Ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable improvements for frontline staff, partners, and clients, reducing administrative burden and improving service access, with particular focus on priority programs including SNAP error rate reduction and child welfare information systems (CWIS) improvement
Oversee vendor performance with an emphasis on outcomes, usability, and delivery of working solutions; identify procurement or contractual wins and negotiate performance improvements where delivery has fallen short
Embed product- and user-centered thinking into technology planning and delivery across OKDHS programs, setting delivery standards for internal and vendor teams including agile practices, release mana