Director of Information Technology

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Duties/Responsibilities

• Develops and leads the overall IT strategy ensuring alignment with business goals and government requirements/regulations. Drives innovation and efficiency through flexible responsive solutions.
• Ensures reliable secure and scalable IT systems that meet the needs of the organization.
• Overall responsibility for the development implementation and maintenance of IT systems and services that support company programs and business operations.
• Ensures IT systems and services are compliant with Department of Defense (DoD) standards and regulations including NIST DFARS and other applicable requirements.
• Collaborates with crossfunctional teams to ensure IT solutions meet business security and compliance requirements.
• Partners closely with Security and IT Leadership team to develop technology infrastructure based on business needs.
• Responsible for definition deployment and update of Drapers IT infrastructure including data center enterprise servers and storage collaboration networking and telecom components.
• Proactively research and investigate new or improved methodology or technology that will either improve IT customer or IT infrastructure processes increase profitability or reduce expenses.
• Establishes and drives measurable goals that are aligned with department and organizational goals to effectively enable the department and organizational missions.
• Plans and forecasts activity within the Information Technology function as indicated by strategic and departmental projects initiatives and general direction.
• Provide architectural leadership to IT and Draper at large on all aspects related to infrastructure engineering security and IT operations.
• Design and build of IT infrastructure both on premise and private/public cloud.
• Capacity planning and specifying required system hardware and network connectivity prior to the rollout of new infrastructure initiatives or in support of new applications.
• Collaborate on the integration of physical and application architecture through close teamwork with software architects application developers and operations teams.
• Provides motivational leadership for direct reports at all levels from team leads to individual contributors including performance planning and development support; coaching and mentoring; rewards and recognition; and staff retention to develop a continuous improvement culture.
• Initiates service improvement direction to the Information Security team as a function of integrating customer feedback and driving continuous improvement.
• Coordinate the acquisition deployment and refresh of core infrastructure and computing systems to meet the business needs of Draper projects and organizations.
• Accurately manages explains and forecasts the financial activity of the department including staffing and resource planning.
• Accurately forecasts future outside purchases and communicates any adjustments as appropriate.
• Actively solicits crossfunctional collaboration across individual contributors teams overall department.
• Collaborate closely with CISO and Cyber Security team in design implementation and operations of security controls and technologies to safeguard Draper information assets.

Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to develop plans that meet the architecture/technology needs of the organization while incorporating business priorities strategies goals emerging technologies industry trends and economic viability.
• Ability to provide crossfunctional leadership to ensure project objectives and deadlines are met.
• Technical hands on experience with core computing and infrastructure components as outlined in the job description.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other members of formal and informal groups in the pursuit of common missions vision values and mutual goals.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible within a variety of changing situations while working with various individuals and groups.
• Posses excellent communication skills to provide clear and business focused (nontechnical) communications to all levels within the organization.
• Excellent supervisory and management skills. Demonstrated success in developing coaching and mentoring staff inline with the mission vision values goals and performance standards of formal and informal teams.
• Experience in architecting and implementing cloud solutions using AWS Azure or other solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and act upon opportunities for continuous improvement.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related discipline required. Masters or other advanced degree is preferred.
• ITIL technical certifications (CISSP MCSE etc. and Project Management certifications is preferred.

Experience

• 15 years of experience in leadership positions with focus on IT infrastructure design and management.
• 10 years program and project management experience including estimating and forecasting budget and financial management staffing / hiring and resource management.
  

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Applicants for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Active Top Secret Security clearance is required.

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