Vice President Corporate Systems & IT

Vice President Corporate Systems & IT

The Vice President Corporate Systems & IT leads the strategy modernization governance and operational excellence of Modern Niagaras corporate systems and enterprise technology environment.

Reporting to the CIO this role is accountable for the performance evolution security and continuous improvement of core business systems including ERP (NetSuite) HCM (UKG) enterprise infrastructure (Azure Microsoft 365 Entra ID / Azure AD) IT service management cybersecurity IT policy and standards and the responsible deployment of corporate AI capabilities.

This leader balances operational reliability with forward-looking transformation enabling scalable growth and strengthening the companys digital foundation across the organization.

Why This Role Matters to Modern Niagara

This role is critical to supporting Modern Niagaras continued growth operational excellence and digital transformation. The Vice President Corporate Systems & IT ensures the organizations enterprise technology platforms are secure resilient scalable and aligned with evolving business needs.

Their leadership directly impacts business continuity employee experience cybersecurity posture enterprise governance and the organizations ability to responsibly adopt emerging technologies including AI to improve productivity and decision-making across the business.

Key Impact / Purpose

• Lead the strategy governance modernization and operational performance of Modern Niagaras enterprise systems and technology environment.
• Strengthen organizational scalability security resilience and service delivery through modern infrastructure cybersecurity ITSM and governance practices.
• Enable business growth and operational efficiency by improving enterprise platforms business processes reporting automation and responsible AI adoption.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Enterprise Systems Leadership

• Own the strategy roadmap performance and continuous improvement of Corporate Systems platforms.
• Partner with Finance People & Culture Construction and corporate functions to improve end-to-end business processes controls reporting and user adoption.
• Lead needs identification and prioritization with systems integration teams manage corporate systems data flows quality and automation and shared service governance to ensure reliability scalability and decision-useful information.

Cloud Infrastructure & Modern Workplace

• Own and evolve enterprise cloud and infrastructure strategy with accountability for Microsoft Azure Microsoft 365 Entra ID / Azure AD networking endpoint management and collaboration platforms.
• Ensure high availability resilience scalability and cost-effective performance across cloud infrastructure identity and workplace technologies.
• Lead identity and access management strategy including SSO MFA conditional access privileged access controls and lifecycle governance.
• Drive modernization of legacy technologies and establish a secure well-governed digital workplace.

IT Service Management

• Establish and mature ITSM capabilities including incident problem change request asset and service catalog management.
• Improve service delivery user experience support responsiveness and operational discipline through defined SLAs service metrics and continuous improvement.
• Build dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into service performance operational health and business impact.

Cybersecurity Risk & Resilience

• Own enterprise cybersecurity strategy governance and execution across identity endpoint cloud network and third-party risk domains.
• Strengthen security posture through modern controls security architecture awareness monitoring and incident response readiness.
• Lead business continuity disaster recovery and cyber resilience planning in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Ensure technology risks are identified communicated and managed appropriately at the corporate level.

IT Policy Standards & Governance

• Establish and maintain enterprise IT policies standards and control frameworks covering infrastructure security identity data systems administration access management retention acceptable use and operational practices.
• Ensure technology policies and standards are practical enforceable auditable and aligned with business legal regulatory and contractual obligations.
• Drive governance processes that improve technology decision-making architectural consistency and risk-based control maturity.

Corporate AI Enablement

• Partner with business leaders to identify prioritize and responsibly deploy corporate AI use cases that improve productivity service quality reporting or decision support.
• Establish guardrails governance and standards for enterprise AI adoption including security privacy acceptable use model risk and human oversight.
• Evaluate AI-enabled capabilities across Microsoft and Corporate Systems third-party platforms and translate emerging opportunities into scalable usable and business-aligned solutions.

Leadership & Vendor Management

• Build and lead a high-performing multi-disciplinary IT organization spanning enterprise applications infrastructure service delivery and cybersecurity.
• Foster a culture of accountability collaboration service excellence and continuous improvement.
• Manage strategic relationships with Corporate Systems vendors partners managed services providers and contracts to maximize delivery quality resilience and value.

Must haves:

• 15 years of progressive IT experience including 7 years in senior leadership roles with accountability for enterprise systems infrastructure security and service delivery.
• Proven experience leading enterprise business platforms ideally including NetSuite and/or comparable ERP environments as well as HCM platforms such as UKG or equivalent.
• Deep experience with the Microsoft ecosystem including Azure architecture Microsoft 365 services Entra ID / Azure AD cloud governance and operational management at scale.
• Strong expertise in identity and access management including federation SSO MFA conditional access RBAC privileged identity management and identity lifecycle governance.
• Demonstrated success leading cloud transformation infrastructure modernization and enterprise technology standardization initiatives.
• Significant experience in cybersecurity leadership including governance risk management resilience planning and implementation of modern security controls.
• Experience developing and implementing IT policies standards governance frameworks and IT service management operating models across complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading enterprise AI deployment including governance risk controls acceptable-use policies and practical business adoption.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams manage strategic vendors and align technology investments with business priorities.
• Bachelors degree in information technology computer science engineering or a related field.

Nice to haves:

• Experience in construction engineering field services or other project-based operating environments.
• Graduate degree and/or relevant industry certifications.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide modernization initiatives within complex multi-site organizations.
• Strong background in operational reporting analytics automation and systems integration.

This is a new position. Competitive total compensation package commensurate with experience.

Modern Niagara offers a competitive total compensation package including:

• Performance based bonus opportunities
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with a generous employer contribution
• Flexible Health and Dental benefits with tiered options to meet the needs of you and your family
• An annual health spending account to support your overall wellness
• 24/7 confidential support through our Employee and Family Assistance Program with access to comprehensive resources and professional services
• A competitive vacation package with additional vacation granted throughout your tenure with the organization
• Employer Paid Parental Leave Top Up
• Annual Community Day dedicated to volunteering and giving back to the communities where we live and work
• Corporate Discounts through various vendors across Canada for programs such as fitness mobile phones travel home and auto insurance and many others

Here at Modern Niagara because we know our people are the best in the industry we pride ourselves on providing a total compensation package that rewards employees for their hard work and supports employees and their families in their overall wellbeing.

About Modern Niagara

Who We Are

Modern Niagara helps building owners managers and general contractors meet the mechanical and electrical needs of their buildings across Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Toronto Southwestern Ontario and Ottawa. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canadas infrastructure and on the communities where we live learn work and heal. We build for life.

Our Culture & Values

We value passion initiative determination professionalism and teamwork. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and our award-winning safety culture consistently performs well above industry standards.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion at Modern Niagara

We are committed to building a diverse equitable and inclusive organization where everyone has access to opportunity feels a sense of belonging and can thrive. We actively work to remove barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (including women Indigenous Black racialized 2SLGBTQIA people people with disabilities and newcomers to Canada) in the construction industry.

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and are committed to a barrier-free hiring process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process please contact so we can make appropriate arrangements.

We appreciate every applicants interest in joining Modern Niagara. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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