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Director, IT Infrastructure – Operations
Otter Products
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Fort Collins • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloud
About the role
- Sets the strategy and roadmap mission and vision of the I&O organization to foster a business-oriented culture and mindset driven by continual service improvement techniques.
- Leads the development of the I&O strategy and roadmap and ensures its integration with the overall IT and enterprise strategic plans.
- Works with the IT senior leadership team on the service portfolio and governance required to prioritize resources.
- Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with other IT leaders and business executives to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs and responds with agility to changing business priorities.
- Develops and controls the annual operating and capital expenditure budget for I&O to ensure it is consistent with overall strategic objectives of IT and the enterprise and is within plan.
- Leverages influencing and negotiation skills across IT and the enterprise to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions in achievement of business goals.
- Participates in the assessment of external and internal technology capabilities required to achieve desired competitive positioning.
- Maintains currency on new technologies and platforms and provides direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced within I&O to ensure IT capabilities respond to the needs of the enterprise's business strategy.
- Champions I&O involvement in the IT organization's innovation efforts and its role in experimenting with new solutions to take advantage of business opportunities.
- Provides strategic direction and oversight for the design, development, operation, and support of IT systems that fulfill the needs of the business, including the full life cycle of technical architecture, infrastructure engineering, infrastructure operations and business continuity/disaster recover (BC/DR) capabilities.
- Directs the development of I&O sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner relationship management.
- Works with HR and the IT leadership team to develop an I&O "people strategy" that aligns with the business and IT strategy.
- Continually looks for leading-edge and innovative solutions to the recruitment, development, and retention of the I&O workforce.
- Forecasts future skill needs to acquire and develop an IT workforce with the appropriate mix of business knowledge, technical skills and competencies that balance between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient.
- Serves on IT planning and policymaking committees; drives the development of enterprise technology standards, resiliency, governance processes and performance metrics to ensure I&O delivers value to the enterprise.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and direction to, and with, the infrastructure team.
- Support and maintain a positive safety culture by being an active leader in all safety program initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- Minimum of ten years of experience in IT and business industries required.
- A minimum of four years in a manager or higher-level role is required.
- Prior experience with AWS, cloud technologies and vendor management required.
- A minimum five years of experience in large, cross-functional teams influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders effectively across the organization and within complex contexts preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organization design and development preferred.
- Proven experience or demonstrated capability in leading IT transformational initiatives in complex and dynamic environments preferred.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- basic life
- voluntary life
- long-term and short-term disability
- employee assistance program
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings account
- 401(k) retirement plan
- accrued paid time off based on seniority
- volunteer time off
- parental leave
- bereavement leave
- company holidays
- years of service awards
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
strategic planningorganizational designIT transformational initiativesbudget managementvendor managementbusiness continuitydisaster recoveryinfrastructure engineeringtechnical architecturecloud technologies
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingnegotiationinfluencingrelationship buildingagilitycommunicationteam collaborationproblem-solvinginnovation
