Business Technology Specialist

Role Responsibilities

Are you ready to lead innovation that protects Alberta’s communities and drives sustainable change? The Forestry Division is building a cutting-edge digital ecosystem to transform data management, analytics, and operational efficiency. By modernizing IT systems, we’re enhancing user experience, reducing administrative burden, and ensuring long-term program sustainability.

As our Business Technology Specialist, you’ll report directly to the Director of Business Technology and Modernization. In this pivotal role, you will provide leadership and support the strategic direction on IT innovation and systems modernization initiatives within the Forestry Division. You will ensure the seamless integration of operational services across programs, while assessing and refining delivery processes to improve efficiency and outcomes. This position also involves setting clear goals and product strategies aligned with divisional objectives.

We’re seeking an innovative leader with technical expertise, business analysis experience, and change management skills. The successful candidate will be passionate about advancing IT modernization strategies and digital roadmaps, maximizing the value of digital products and services. Strong analytical and communication abilities are essential, along with the ability to present accurate, high-quality data and collaborate effectively with partners across the Division and Ministries.

This is your chance to make a lasting impact by modernizing systems and delivering digital products that meet both user and business needs.

Your Key Responsibilities will be but not limited to:

• Lead with Vision: Provide guidance and direction to staff, working groups, vendors, and product teams on the Division’s business applications, systems, and technology.
• Empower Teams: Direct professional staff to deliver on the Division’s information technology mandate with excellence.
• Drive Innovation: Collaborate on planning and design practices to strengthen modernization initiatives across the Forestry Division.
• Deliver Results: Plan, develop, and implement project plans while coordinating staff and budget resources to achieve service delivery objectives.
• Shape Product Strategy: Guide Product Owners in prioritizing, managing, and communicating product vision, backlog, and requirements to align with stakeholder needs.
• Champion Change: Promote change management principles to ensure successful adoption and business acceptance of new technology.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

About your Competencies:

• Systems Thinking: Integrates broader context into planning and plans for how current situation is affected by broader trends. Integrates issues, political environment and risks when considering possible actions. Supports organization vision and goals through strategy. Addresses behaviours that challenge progress.
• Drive for Results: Works to remove barriers to outcomes, sticking to principles that forecasts and proactively addresses project challenges. Removes barriers to collaboration and achievement of outcomes. Upholds principles and confronts problems directly and considers complex factors and aligns solutions with broader organization mission.
• Creative Problem Solving: Works in open teams to share ideas and process issues that use wide range of techniques to break down problems. Allows others to think creatively and voice ideas and bring the right people together to solve issues.Identifies new solutions for the organization.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Involves a wide group of stakeholders when working on outcomes  that involve stakeholders and shares resources. Positively resolves conflict through coaching and facilitated discussion. Uses enthusiasm to motivate and guide others and acknowledges and works with diverse perspectives for achieving outcomes.
• Develop Networks: Makes working with a wide range of parties an imperative that helps create impactful relationships with the right people. Ensures needs of varying groups are represented and goes beyond to meet stakeholder needs and all needs are heard and understood.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:
Bachelors Degree in environmental sciences or related field and 4 years of wildfire or forestry business knowledge experience or a 2 year diploma in environmental sciences and 6 years years of wildfire or forestry business knowledge experience.

Equivalency: Directly related experience or education considered on the basis of: one year of experience for one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience.

Assets

• Technology Project Management experience.
• Business or Technical Analyst experience and training.
• Product Owner and / Scrum Master certification would be considered an assest.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

This is a permanent, full-time role with the standard weekly work hours of 36.25, Monday to Friday.

Candidates may be asked to complete a written assignment as a part of the interview process.

Application Information:

• In your application, please a include cover page detailing your interest, and role related experience.
• In your resume include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time or full-time. For example January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).
• Three (3) work-related references are required for those selected for an interview.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.