This position provides expert consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture and leads team interactions with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs. This position builds and leverages partnerships with various IT teams and partners with business leaders, solutions, and enterprise architects to review business drivers, and define, understand, and communicate target strategies and roadmaps to team members.
Essential responsibilities include driving the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
Minimum qualifications include four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports and a bachelor's degree in computer science, cis, or related field and ten (10) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.