IT Application Director

Corporate:
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Position Summary

The IT Director of Applications will manage the strategy delivery and operations for most of the Enterprise and many customer-facing applications across the regional Business Units of Light & Wonder: Gaming iGaming SciPlay and Corporate. This role ensures platforms are secure reliable scalable and aligned with business growth while partnering with business unit leadership and teams to drive innovation in applications management integrations and automation in both corporate and Cloud environments.

The incumbent will need to work collaboratively with L&Ws IT Leadership to assess the organizations current and future needs whilst working with peers and influencing leadership decision making to devise strategic initiatives and objectives to meet these. This includes the assessment of operating environments their contingency and efficacy to ensure high delivery and availability standards are met. Working collaboratively with global IT Leadership identify opportunities to enhance and expand IT infrastructure support services to meet the ever-changing needs of L&W.

The incumbent requires good business acumen and comfort in communicating with business leads and executives in the L&W BUs as well as other key organizational stakeholders. The ability to straddle the various locations cultures and service environments to provide consistent delivery of IT service is critical.

Profile

Seasoned IT leader with (10 years) expertise in managing enterprise application environments cloud platforms IAM (particularly OKTA) Atlassian administration and application and third-party integrations. Strong communicator and tactician with a proven track record of managing reliable application operations across complex multi-site business environments.

Key Focus Areas

• Application Strategic Leadership:Define and deliver the regional applications roadmap with partnership and alignment to corporate and business unit objectives.

• Enterprise Applications & Integrations:Manage the enterprise application ecosystems and key business unit application platforms and environments.

• Identity & Access Management:Oversee OKTA administration and complex integrations across 50 corporate and customer platforms.

• Automation & AI:Advance workflow automation ScriptRunner solutions and AI-enabled productivity initiatives.

• Cloud & Infrastructure:Regional leadership of AWS and Azure management with strong focus on scalability security and disaster recovery.

• Governance & Compliance:Ensure adherence to security regulatory and audit requirements in collaboration with InfoSec Legal and Compliance.

• Team Leadership:Build and mentor high-performing customer-focused application engineering team.

Qualifications

• STEM graduate or applicable technical skillset career and experience.

• Proven track record (10 years) in IT leadership with expertise in Enterprise Application Management System Support and Integrations and Deployments.

• Deep hands-on knowledge of OKTA administration Auth0 AD and M365 Tenant Operations and Management.

• Experience with Atlassian Ecosystem Administration.

• Expertise in RPA and Process Engineering (e.g. ScriptRunner).

• Expertise in managing Cloud Environments and CSPs (e.g. AWS Azure)Data/BI Applications (e.g. Tableau Cognos Databricks) and Automation Frameworks (Nintex ScriptRunner MS Forms Powershell).

• Experience with Enterprise Collaboration Platforms (e.g. Slack Teams Google).

• Demonstrated success in inter-team and leadership partnership and managing multi-location/geography team members.

Additional Information

Why would you enjoy working with us at Light & Wonder

• Competitive benefits an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace

• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis

• Tangible and genuine development - at Light & Wonder you can take your career where you want it to go!

And if thats not enough;you will get to enjoyastunning work locationandflexibleworking practiceswhilst we provide you with theguidanceanddevelopmentskillsyou need to progress quickly andenhance your career.

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