IT Director

IT Director

Location: Dallas TX

DLRdmv creates and deploys innovating Title & Registration technology and Governmental Compliance solutions to the Automotive Industry. DLRdmv offers an exciting entrepreneurial work environment for individuals interested in being part of a growing company that is fully committed to serving its customers.

Job Description: The IT Director is a hands-on leader responsible for the strategy execution and continuous improvement of our internal IT operations and cloud platforms. This role owns service delivery for our employee end-users and core infrastructure leads our AWS cloud engineering function and collaborates closely with our Software Engineering and Product teams to ensure reliability performance and robust controls.

In this role youll manage a multidisciplinary team including Helpdesk Cloud Engineering and Systems and Salesforce Administration while collaborating closely with our DevOps Engineers and Audit & Compliance team. A key mandate is to lead IT due diligence and integration efforts for future mergers and acquisitions aligning people processes technology and controls as we continue to grow. The IT Director reports to the CIO.

Responsibilities:

Own the IT operating model (org design processes and tooling) and maintain a 12-18 month roadmap aligned to business goals and objectives

Manage IT change management and incident response plans

Build mentor and retain a high-performing team; foster team development and growth

Lead IT Support to deliver fast high-quality support for a nationwide multi-platform hybrid workforce

Drive endpoint management identity and access hygiene patching and hardening at scale

Oversee core systems (identity email/collab network file services backups/DR) and establish standards for configuration management change control runbooks and documentation

Ensure the reliability performance security and cost efficiency of all AWS environments; drive proactive monitoring and continuous improvement

Coordinate and manage IT diligence efforts (people processes tech stack contracts risk controls cost); produce and execute integration plans

Partner with Audit & Compliance to create execute and monitor control requirements throughout IT operations; support audits and risk assessments with evidence collection and remediation plans

Partner with DevOps for deployment pipeline environment support and release reliability

Own IT budgeting forecasting and license optimization; negotiate and manage vendors to ensure contractual alignment with security and regulatory obligations

Coordinate across departments for on/offboarding data handling and operational or regulatory needs

Collaborate with the CIO on strategy and roadmap; provide data-driven recommendations and clear trade-off analyses

Requirements:

10 years of progressive IT leadership including 3 years leading managers and multi-disciplinary teams

Demonstrated success owning enterprise IT operations in a cloud-first security-sensitive environment

Meaningful M&A experience; IT due diligence integration planning/execution and change management

Deep AWS experience and strong understanding of enterprise networking

Strong command of M365/Entra ID endpoint management and identity/access governance

Hands-on familiarity with CI/CD practices and modern web application stacks

Proficiency with automation and scripting (PowerShell Bash Python)

Working knowledge of security frameworks (SOC 2 NIST CSF) and GLBA Safeguards; audit support experience preferred

Excellent leadership communication and vendor-management skills; sharp analytical and empirical problem-solving

Hybrid position; travel may occasionally be required

DLRdmv offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including life medical dental vision and more.

DLRdmv is an EEO Employer. We sincerely appreciate your interest and will carefully evaluate your qualifications for employment. Be assured your opportunity for employment with our company will be based only on your merit without regard to race color religion sex age national origin mental or physical disability or any other factor unrelated to job requirements.