Business Transformation Technical Lead (LTE)

Business Transformation Technical Lead (LTE)

Salary

$143,321.47 - $197,824.00 Annually

Location

Bellevue City Hall, 450 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA

Job Type

Limited Term

Remote Employment

Flexible/Hybrid

Job Number

26-00137

Department

Information Technology

Division

IT BusStratAlign TBS

Opening Date

06/16/2026

Closing Date

6/22/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

FLSA

Exempt

Bargaining Unit

NONAFF

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Come Join the City of Bellevue!

Please fill out your application as fully as possible. The City evaluates candidates based on the information provided in the online application only. Do not submit resumes and cover letters. Read the "Hiring Process" section below to learn more.

New hires typically receive between minimum and midpoint, however, we may go slightly higher based on experience, internal equity and market.

Job Summary

Our Council vision is: "Bellevue welcomes the world; our diversity is our strength. We embrace the future while respecting the past." We value all employees and their contributions. The City invests in its employees and encourages and rewards employee growth and development by building on our commonalities and our differences. Bellevue is a high-tech hub, noted for its diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. We work collectively to make it a place where you want to work, live and play.

Bellevue is consistently ranked one of the top five digital cities in the nation and supports and encourages innovative approaches to delivering high quality services to residents and employees.

The City of Bellevue is working on a long-term city-wide program to implement modern, user-friendly enterprise technologies that will make work more efficient and provide better data insights. This program, called Business Transformation, will ensure Bellevue's business systems, processes, employees, and technology meet the needs of the community and workforce, both now and in the future.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Technical Lead to join our Business Transformation Program team, under the Information Technology Department. As a core member of the program team for this highly complex effort, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership across the program in support of the delivery of multiple enterprise solutions.

• Act as technical lead or consultant for all program efforts
• Leading systems selection activities in partnership with the project manager
• Working with vendors and other IT staff to develop systems architecture and ensure successful implementation and adoption of new systems.

This role is a limited term with an expected initial duration of up to five (5) years.

Why join our team?

If this sounds like an exciting place to work, then you might be a great fit for our Business Transformation Technical Lead role.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides detailed guidance to multi-functional teams through project plans, technical documents, and other means of communicating complex technical concepts.
• Acts as a technical lead or consultant.
• Focuses on long-term matters related to technical direction and outcomes of complex technical projects.
• Formulates systems scope and objectives and resolves complex technical issues.
• Provides technical guidance to ensure that installed systems are working effectively and that proposed systems will meet organizations future needs.
• Generally responsible for all technology work needed on assigned projects or major phases of very large projects
• May act in liaison capacity with other departments, divisions, and organizations.
• Evaluates progress and results and recommends major changes in procedures.
• Works with vendor and infrastructure staff to design complex architectures that include network, servers, interfaces, databases, middleware, security, etc.
• Provides guidance to other technical team resources as a functional team leader.
• Substantially responsible for final technology recommendations, often affecting the entire organization.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

• Top-level technical expert in systems analysis with full technical knowledge of all phases of systems analysis.
• Requires either a deep technical or professional knowledge of application selection, development and solution architecture principles.
• Can develop long-range technical strategies for software architecture, application support, integration approaches, and service delivery.
• Complete understanding and ability to teach others about all stages of third-party application implementation, upgrades, and support.
• Ability to understand and advise functional team members, supervisors and managers on technical matters.
• Ability to function as an internal consultant.

Education, Experience, and Other Requirements

• Strong experience with enterprise-level systems, databases, and software development lifecycles (SDLC).
• Experience in managing IT projects and leading cross-functional teams.
• User Adoption: Experience building user community (business champions and user groups), promoting training and self-help resources, and connecting business needs to appropriate products, services and resources to achieve desired goals.
• Leadership and communication: Strong leadership experience, particularly with stakeholders and user groups; good verbal and written communication skills; experience tailoring communications to varied audiences.
• Project Management: Experiencecoordinating activities of vendors, business stakeholders and technical colleagues to plan and execute technology projects.
• Technology Support: Experience acting as an intermediary between users and vendors of cloud/SaaS products to ensure they deliver expected business value and conform with SLA requirements.
• Agile/Scrum: Experience working in a scrum team to deliver products, projects, and services using agile, continuous delivery methodologies.
• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in computer science or other related field(s) or equivalent experience.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities will be considered.
• Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in business systems support with emphasis on SaaS applications, cloud services, and inter-system integrations.
• Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in user adoption activities, including individual and group training, knowledge management, fostering user communities, and accelerating momentum with technical and business teams.
• Proficiency in systems analysis tools and methodologies

Supplemental Information

Physical Demands: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work involves walking, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reaching with hands and arms.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.

Flexible/Hybrid Working: A hybrid work schedule is available for this position after an orientation period. Remote work for this position is subject to the departments operational needs and will be discussed with candidates during the selection process. Full-time remote work is not an available option. Once hired, employees must reside in the State of Washington and within reasonable commuting distance to Bellevue City Hall.

Limited Term Employee (LTE): A fully benefited employee appointed to serve in a position scheduled to work a minimum of 30 hours a week for a specific project with a specific ending date which is anticipated to last more than five months but in no event longer than five (5) consecutive years (60 months).

HIRING PROCESS

The City evaluates candidates based on the information provided in the online application only. Do not submit resumes and cover letters. To evaluate all candidates fairly and equitably, the City will make all applicants anonymous when we are screening the applications. We will redact information from our application such as your name, address, and other demographics. To help us, please complete the online application form as fully as possible.

• Answer the Supplemental Questions when requested which can be found on the Questions tab of the Job posting.
• We do not accept resumes and cover letters during the anonymous application screening stage, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
• Applicants advancing to the next stage may be required to provide a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and references.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• All candidates will be required to establish employment authorization and identity at the time of hire. The City is not able to sponsor work visas.
• All positions require the completion of references checks, including at least one prior supervisor.
• Some positions may require completion of a criminal background check prior to start employment
• Some positions may require obtaining a commercial drivers license (CDL), licensures, or additional certifications.

At the City of Bellevue, youll be part of a team committed to providing exceptional customer service, upholding the public interest and advancing the community vision. The six essential and enduring principles that guide our individual actions, our interactions, and our decision making in the City of Bellevue organization is: Exceptional Public Service, Stewardship, Commitment to Employees, Integrity, Innovation, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Youll work in an environment that is innovative, collaborative, future focused, and committed to excellence. Bellevue welcomes the world. Our diversity is our strength. We embrace the future while respecting our past. Its what makes the City of Bellevue an exciting place to work, live, and explore.

Have we piqued your interest yet? Come join our team! The City of Bellevue supports workplace diversity. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. Persons needing assistance with the application process may call the Human Resources Office, at 425-452-6838 or recruiting@bellevuewa.gov. If you are invited to participate in the selection process and need ADA accommodations, please notify HR before you are scheduled for an interview or testing.

The City of Bellevue participates in the E-Verify program. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

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For any technical difficulties with your application, please contact the NEOGOV support line at 855-524-5627.

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The City of Bellevue offers employees a comprehensive benefits package providing choice, flexibility, and value!

Please Note: Seasonal, part-time, and variable employees are not eligible for the below benefits except for mandatory participation in the retirement plan assigned to the position, which will be the Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (MEBT 2) retirement plan or the Washington State Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) retirement plan and any other benefits as required by law.

The following summary applies to fully benefited positions:

Medical

Employees are offered a choice of medical coverage through the Citys self-insured Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan or Kaiser Permanente (HMO).

Dental

Employees are offered a choice of two dental carriers with plans that offer regular checkups, x-rays, fillings, and crowns. Orthodontia is available through one of the carriers.

Vision

Employees are offered a choice of vision coverage through an annual exam-only plan or a buy-up plan which includes an annual eye exam and hardware coverage.

Retirement Plans - Employees are offered three retirement plans:

• Washington State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS): Mandatory participation (PERS, LEOFF or PSERS), depending upon eligibility.
• City of Bellevue Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (MEBT): Optional participation in this 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match contributions that vest on a 3-year schedule.
• Deferred Compensation Program (457 DCP): Optional participation in the supplemental Deferred Compensation Program also administered by DRS that allows tax-deferred savings into a variety of investments options.

Other benefits include:

More detailed information about our employee benefits is available at https://c2mb.ajg.com/cityofbellevue

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Survivor Income
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11 observed holidays per year plus 2 additional personal holidays, vacation (standard accrual of 12 days a year), and sick leave (accumulated at the rate of one day per month)
• An ORCA Card bus pass
• On-site fitness center, and self service food/coffee options
• Career development and training programs
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Paydays - The City of Bellevue pays employees on the 8th and the 23rd of each month (24 pay periods per year).

Please note: The City of Bellevue does not participate in the Social Security Administration (SSA) program and employees do not earn social security credits. The mandatory DRS retirement pension plan provides the required social security replacement plan.

NOTE: This is a brief summary of the benefit programs for the Citys non-represented employees. Every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. Benefits for employees represented by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) may have different benefits. If any information on this document conflicts with the provisions of a CBA, the CBA prevails. Also, in the event of any incorrect information in this document, applicable laws, policies, rules, CBAs, or official plan documents will prevail.

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APPLICANT NOTICE: Your answers below will be used to review this application. The experience listed here MUST match the work history provided in your application. If your answers do not align, you may edit your application before submitting. Please note, it is not acceptable to use "See Resume" or "See Above" in your answers below and we do not accept resumes as a substitute for a completed application.

• I confirm that the information provided here is consistent with my application.
• I do not agree with the statements above.

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This position is a fully benefited Limited Term (LTE) position with an expected end date in 5 years or earlier. Please confirm your interest in LTE position.

• Yes
• No

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All new hires will be required to establish employment authorization and identity at the time of hire. The city is not able to sponsor work visas. Please confirm work authorization.

• Yes, I have current US work authorization.
• No, I do not have current US work authorization.

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The City of Bellevue is a hybrid workplace. This is a Washington State job, and candidates must reside within a reasonable distance of City Hall and be onsite in Bellevue based on departments operational need.

• Yes, I am interested in hybrid schedule and available to be onsite.
• No, I am interested in fully remote position.

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Which statement below best describes the highest level of education you have completed in computer science or other related field(s)?

• Associate degree
• Bachelors degree
• Masters Degree or above
• Not applicable

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How many years of prior related professional experience in business systems support with emphasis on technical lead experience with enterprise systems, SaaS, cloud services, and integrations do you have?

• Less that 5 years of experience
• 5-7 years of experience
• 7-9 years of experience
• 9-10 years of experience
• 10 or more years of experience
• No related experience

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How would you rate your experience providing technical leadership to cross functional teams, including advising on system architecture, guiding technical decision making, and resolving complex technical issues?

• Extensive experience providing leadership across multiple projects
• Moderate experience leading technical work within at least one project
• Some experience advising technical teams but not in a lead role
• No leadership experience in technical domains

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How would you rate your experience leading or participating in enterprise vendor and system selection processes, including evaluating proposals, scoring vendors, and facilitating demos or deep dives?

• Extensive experience (have led multi-stage vendor evaluations, RFP scoring, and selection processes)
• Moderate experience (have supported or co led at least one formal vendor selection effort)
• Limited experience (participated but not in a leadership role)
• No experience

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How would you describe your Agile/Scrum experience?

• Core team member/technical lead
• Occasional participant
• Conceptual understanding only
• None

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Employer City of Bellevue

Address PO Box 90012

Bellevue, Washington, 98009

Website http://www.bellevuewa.gov/