Description:
The Director of Information Technology will possess technical expertise and provide strategic leadership, vision, planning, and management to all areas of corporate IT. The Director will develop and oversee company-wide technology policies, procedures, services, and facilities. The Director will work collaboratively with the CIO and other leadership to develop effective strategies for integrating and advancing our technology.
The successful candidate will be a hands-on manager, leader and mentor. Candidate must have the ability to develop and lead strategic and operational initiatives and will possess exceptional communication, collaboration, project management and customer service skills.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops overall technology roadmap and plans, formulates, sets and implements polices for current and future information/communication/ telecommunications systems and activities
- Analyzes IT infrastructure and systems performance to assess operating costs, productivity levels, upgrade requirements, and other metrics and needs
- Manages IT staff including recruitment, performance management and evaluations, and professional development
- Prepares, submits, and manages operating and capital expenditures for technology needed to support the organizations technology projects
- Oversees the purchase, installation, and maintenance of computer hardware, software, networks, telecommunication equipment on premises and the cloud environment
- Collaborates with Director of IS on development, staging and production platforms
- Collaborates with cybersecurity staff on risk assessment, response and remediation
- Provides weekly updates and strategies on all projects to CIO and CEO
- Perform reviews and updates, promotes and ensures policy awareness, tracks exceptions, and performs testing / auditing / monitoring on policy compliance
- Keeps abreast of new knowledge, research, products, and services in technology that will benefit the organization
Qualifications:
- Computer Science or related bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant IT experience
- Minimum 5 years of leading IT Teams and hands-on technical operations
- Prior experience in a hands-on technical role with oversight of systems, network, storage and database administration in an on-premise environment.
- Strong experience in Windows and UNIX operating systems
- Experience with VMware and NetApp a plus
- Implementation and project management of large-scale technology implementations
- Determine skills of current staff, align resources for best fit/future state, staff development/mentorship
- Manage vendor relationships and negotiations
- Establishing and maintaining accountability and adaptability
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- Ability to write and present formal documentation