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To direct Finance, Procurement, and Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) within VDOT's Information Technology Division. To direct programs which are critical components of VDOT's Information Technology management structure that enable and provide alignment between IT initiatives and activities and VDOT's strategic business goals.
How you will contribute:
- Cloud FinOps Management: Direct finance, procurement and Cloud FinOps Management, including strategic planning and best practices. Develop and maintain VDOT’s FinOps framework, including cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and chargeback/show back models providing cloud spend visibility. Oversee monthly and quarterly cloud cost reviews with engineering and business teams. Establish and enforce cloud cost governance policies, including targets, tagging standards, resource lifecycle rules, and procurement guidelines.
- Compliance: Provide compliance management for VDOT and ITD by ensuring management and staff are aware of compliance requirements, including requirements in job and position profiles, financial management, contract management, VITA, and ITP service management.
- ITD Management: Provide effective management of ITD by building and maintaining effective working relationships with other ITD staff and contributing ideas. Actively contribute value to the decision-making responsibilities of the ITD management team. Manage development of the yearly budget, ongoing fiscal responsibilities for IT strategic planning and the governance programs within the ITD. Direct budgetary, fiscal, and office administration of the ITD. Manage the IT Security Program and develop and direct ITD Resource Management.
- Project Development: Direct the development of assigned programs by defining requirements, communicating requirements to IT management and staff, monitoring activities to meet requirements, reviewing draft documents and approving final policies, processes, standards and initiatives across VDOT.
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Strategic Planning: Manage IT strategic planning process for ITD and VDOT by leading, directing, and reviewing updates to VDOT's Strategic Technology Plan. Direct staff in maintaining and monitoring the technology project portfolio for IDT and VDOT. Manage and coordinate IT needs assessment and project prioritization tasks for other VDOT Divisions and Districts. Create project management office policy, guidelines and standards for ITD. Manage, lead and coordinate procurement of all IT goods and services through VITA for VDOT. Ensure staff develop and maintain knowledge and training to interact with other Divisions, Districts, state agencies and outside vendors to define and manage project requirements and schedules. Represent the IT Director in maintaining customer relations. Facilitate communication and issue escalations between VITA and VDOT business units regarding requirements for VITA service, VITA service issues and VITA service levels.
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Strategic and Governance Planning and Implementation: Lead ITD strategic planning and governance planning and implementation efforts for VDOT by coordinating these efforts within ITD and agency-wide. Provide strategic direction by proactively communicating, coordinating, and distributing IT portfolio and project status, and developing collaborative relationships throughout VDOT. Manage relationships with VDOT business customers to support the work of the ITIC. Ensure communication of ITIC priorities and decisions and alignment between IT initiatives and business goals. Represent VDOT and the ITD on multi-agency and Commonwealth-wide committees on issues and concerns related to technology standards policies representing VDOT's needs and positions on these issues.
What will make you successful:
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences and to make presentations and conduct meetings.
- Ability to manage, monitor and facilitate compliance with State and VDOT requirements for procurement, budget, and billing processes.
- Knowledge of Project Management, Program Management, and Portfolio Management including Program Management methodologies, metrics, techniques and control processes.
- Knowledge of VDOT's technology architecture and standards and depth and breadth of technology solutions.
- Knowledge of Virginia IT procurement laws and regulations and VITA procurement processes.
- Knowledge of compliance techniques related to Finance, Procurement, and FinOps.
- Knowledge of information systems data processing methods, data analysis techniques and application systems maintenance.
- Knowledge of oversight compliance techniques as they relate to Information Technology.
- Knowledge of strategic and tactical management of large, enterprise-wide technology programs of a size and scope similar to VDOT.
- Knowledge of strategic information technology planning and alignment of Information Technology projects, portfolios and initiatives with strategic business goals.
- Knowledge of supervisory and human resource principles and practices to include hiring, discipline, performance management, and employee development.
- Knowledge of the development of Enterprise Technology Strategy, Governance and Quality Assurance Programs and development and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures.
- Skill in Cloud FinOps management.
- Skill in procurement and vendor management, including knowledge of Virginia procurement laws and regulations and VITA procurement processes.
- Skill in the development and implementation of Enterprise Technology Strategy policies, standards, and procedures.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences and to make presentations and conduct meetings.
- Ability to manage, monitor, and facilitate compliance with state and agency requirements.
- Knowledge of oversight compliance techniques as they relate to information technology finance, procurement and cloud FinOps.
- Knowledge of procurement, budget, and billing and cloud FinOps processes.
- Skill in and implementation of policies and procedures.
- Skill in data analysis techniques for cloud financial management.
- Skill in human resources principles, practices to include hiring, discipline, performance management and employee development.
- Skill in strategic, tactical management of large, enterprise-wide programs.
- Skill in strategic information technology planning and alignment of information technology projects, portfolios, and initiatives with strategic business goals.
- Skill in the development of an enterprise technology finance strategy, governance, quality assurance programs.
Additional Considerations:
- A combination of training, experience, or education in Public Administration, Information Technology Finance, Procurement and Cloud Financial Management or related field desired.
- Knowledge of VDOT's technology architecture, standards, depth, breadth of technology solutions.
- Knowledge of VITA procurement processes.
- Knowledge of Virginia procurement laws and regulations.
- Skill in procurement and vendor management.
Click below to learn more about the Competency Model associated with this Position:
Competency Model
Physical Requirements
VDOT employees must abide by VDOT's Code of Ethics and the Commonwealth's Standards of Conduct.
VDOT Code of Ethics
Standards of Conduct
INTRODUCTION
To direct Finance, Procurement, and Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) within VDOT's Information Technology Division. To direct programs which are critical components of VDOT's Information Technology management structure that enable and provide alignment between IT initiatives and activities and VDOT's strategic business goals.
How you will contribute:
- Cloud FinOps Management: Direct finance, procurement and Cloud FinOps Management, including strategic planning and best practices. Develop and maintain VDOT’s FinOps framework, including cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and chargeback/show back models providing cloud spend visibility. Oversee monthly and quarterly cloud cost reviews with engineering and business teams. Establish and enforce cloud cost governance policies, including targets, tagging standards, resource lifecycle rules, and procurement guidelines.
- Compliance: Provide compliance management for VDOT and ITD by ensuring management and staff are aware of compliance requirements, including requirements in job and position profiles, financial management, contract management, VITA, and ITP service management.
- ITD Management: Provide effective management of ITD by building and maintaining effective working relationships with other ITD staff and contributing ideas. Actively contribute value to the decision-making responsibilities of the ITD management team. Manage development of the yearly budget, ongoing fiscal responsibilities for IT strategic planning and the governance programs within the ITD. Direct budgetary, fiscal, and office administration of the ITD. Manage the IT Security Program and develop and direct ITD Resource Management.
- Project Development: Direct the development of assigned programs by defining requirements, communicating requirements to IT management and staff, monitoring activities to meet requirements, reviewing draft documents and approving final policies, processes, standards and initiatives across VDOT.
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Strategic Planning: Manage IT strategic planning process for ITD and VDOT by leading, directing, and reviewing updates to VDOT's Strategic Technology Plan. Direct staff in maintaining and monitoring the technology project portfolio for IDT and VDOT. Manage and coordinate IT needs assessment and project prioritization tasks for other VDOT Divisions and Districts. Create project management office policy, guidelines and standards for ITD. Manage, lead and coordinate procurement of all IT goods and services through VITA for VDOT. Ensure staff develop and maintain knowledge and training to interact with other Divisions, Districts, state agencies and outside vendors to define and manage project requirements and schedules. Represent the IT Director in maintaining customer relations. Facilitate communication and issue escalations between VITA and VDOT business units regarding requirements for VITA service, VITA service issues and VITA service levels.
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Strategic and Governance Planning and Implementation: Lead ITD strategic planning and governance planning and implementation efforts for VDOT by coordinating these efforts within ITD and agency-wide. Provide strategic direction by proactively communicating, coordinating, and distributing IT portfolio and project status, and developing collaborative relationships throughout VDOT. Manage relationships with VDOT business customers to support the work of the ITIC. Ensure communication of ITIC priorities and decisions and alignment between IT initiatives and business goals. Represent VDOT and the ITD on multi-agency and Commonwealth-wide committees on issues and concerns related to technology standards policies representing VDOT's needs and positions on these issues.
What will make you successful:
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences and to make presentations and conduct meetings.
- Ability to manage, monitor and facilitate compliance with State and VDOT requirements for procurement, budget, and billing processes.
- Knowledge of Project Management, Program Management, and Portfolio Management including Program Management methodologies, metrics, techniques and control processes.
- Knowledge of VDOT's technology architecture and standards and depth and breadth of technology solutions.
- Knowledge of Virginia IT procurement laws and regulations and VITA procurement processes.
- Knowledge of compliance techniques related to Finance, Procurement, and FinOps.
- Knowledge of information systems data processing methods, data analysis techniques and application systems maintenance.
- Knowledge of oversight compliance techniques as they relate to Information Technology.
- Knowledge of strategic and tactical management of large, enterprise-wide technology programs of a size and scope similar to VDOT.
- Knowledge of strategic information technology planning and alignment of Information Technology projects, portfolios and initiatives with strategic business goals.
- Knowledge of supervisory and human resource principles and practices to include hiring, discipline, performance management, and employee development.
- Knowledge of the development of Enterprise Technology Strategy, Governance and Quality Assurance Programs and development and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures.
- Skill in Cloud FinOps management.
- Skill in procurement and vendor management, including knowledge of Virginia procurement laws and regulations and VITA procurement processes.
- Skill in the development and implementation of Enterprise Technology Strategy policies, standards, and procedures.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences and to make presentations and conduct meetings.
- Ability to manage, monitor, and facilitate compliance with state and agency requirements.
- Knowledge of oversight compliance techniques as they relate to information technology finance, procurement and cloud FinOps.
- Knowledge of procurement, budget, and billing and cloud FinOps processes.
- Skill in and implementation of policies and procedures.
- Skill in data analysis techniques for cloud financial management.
- Skill in human resources principles, practices to include hiring, discipline, performance management and employee development.
- Skill in strategic, tactical management of large, enterprise-wide programs.
- Skill in strategic information technology planning and alignment of information technology projects, portfolios, and initiatives with strategic business goals.
- Skill in the development of an enterprise technology finance strategy, governance, quality assurance programs.
Additional Considerations:
- A combination of training, experience, or education in Public Administration, Information Technology Finance, Procurement and Cloud Financial Management or related field desired.
- Knowledge of VDOT's technology architecture, standards, depth, breadth of technology solutions.
- Knowledge of VITA procurement processes.
- Knowledge of Virginia procurement laws and regulations.
- Skill in procurement and vendor management.
Click below to learn more about the Competency Model associated with this Position:
Competency Model
Physical Requirements
VDOT employees must abide by VDOT's Code of Ethics and the Commonwealth's Standards of Conduct.
VDOT Code of Ethics
Standards of Conduct
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Assistant IT Manager
Align your credentials to EB category
Pull up your O*NET profile for Assistant IT Manager and confirm whether the role's education requirement maps to EB-2 or EB-3. Misclassifying your category delays the PERM filing and can require restarting the process entirely.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Run the OFLC Wage Search for your target city and job zone before you receive an offer. If your negotiated salary falls below the DOL prevailing wage, your employer's PERM application will fail at the wage-determination step.
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Search Migrate Mate's database of employers with verified green card sponsorship history to identify Assistant IT Manager roles at companies that have already filed PERM applications for similar positions, reducing the time spent on cold outreach.
Ask about recruitment test timelines upfront
PERM requires employers to run a full recruitment test before filing, including job ads, internal postings, and documentation of all applicants. Ask hiring managers whether they've completed or are prepared to run this process for your role.
Prepare for priority date backlogs early
If you're a national of India or China, your EB-2 or EB-3 priority date may be years behind the current cutoff. Build your sponsorship timeline around USCIS's monthly Visa Bulletin, not just the PERM filing date.
Protect your priority date when changing jobs
Once your original I-140 is approved and your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you move to a same or similar occupation without losing your priority date. Confirm the new role's SOC code matches before accepting an offer.
Green Card Assistant IT Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
What green card categories cover Assistant IT Manager roles?
Most Assistant IT Manager positions qualify under EB-2 if the employer requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree with five years of progressive experience in IT management. EB-3 applies when the role requires a bachelor's degree or at least two years of specialized experience. Your employer's PERM attorney will determine the correct category based on the actual job requirements, not your personal credentials.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
Green card sponsorship via PERM, I-140, and adjustment of status leads to lawful permanent residence, not a temporary work authorization. Unlike H-1B visa, there is no annual lottery, but employment-based green cards have per-country numerical limits and priority date backlogs. The PERM process also requires the employer to conduct a formal recruitment test to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the Assistant IT Manager role.
How long does the PERM process typically take for IT management roles?
PERM labor certification involves a prevailing wage determination request to DOL, a recruitment period of at least 30 days, and the actual PERM application filing. Each stage adds time, and audit rates for IT roles are higher than average. After PERM approval, your employer files the I-140 with USCIS, and your adjustment of status or consular processing wait depends on your priority date and country of birth.
Where can I find employers who already sponsor green cards for Assistant IT Manager jobs?
Migrate Mate lists employers with documented green card sponsorship history for roles in IT management, so you can target companies that have already navigated PERM for similar positions. This saves significant time compared to approaching employers who have never sponsored and may be unwilling to start the process for a single hire.
Can I change employers after my green card process has started?
You can change employers after your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more if the new role is in the same or a similar occupation under AC21 job portability. Separately, once your original employer's I-140 was approved, a new employer can file a fresh I-140 and you may retain your original priority date. Switching before either threshold resets your place in the queue.