IT Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation

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Summary

Were building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people can bring their best be their best and work for the best. Youve come to the right place to grow your career.

You place great value on building meaningful relationships leveraging technology to transform business outcomes and creating clarity across complex enterprise initiatives. Bring your knowledge skills and abilities to us as a Director Cloud Enablement & Transformation. You will be positioned to lead one of the organizations most important modernization efforts while shaping the future direction of cloud platform automation and transformation services.

Job Description

The Director Cloud Enablement & Transformation leads an expert team of highly skilled and diverse technology leaders Cloud Architects Engineers Platform Specialists and Transformation professionals responsible for establishing advancing and governing BOKFs cloud adoption strategy and modernization journey.

This position provides strategic oversight of enterprise cloud services application modernization programs cloud platform engineering automation capabilities production support project execution and transformation initiatives that enable the lines of business to meet corporate strategic objectives. The Director serves as the communications link and strategic liaison between business leadership technology teams enterprise architecture cybersecurity risk management vendors and executive stakeholders.

This role is accountable for developing technology plans roadmaps operating models and investment recommendations that advance BOKFs long- and short-term strategic goals. The Director translates business needs into secure resilient scalable and cost-effective cloud and platform capabilities that improve speed to market operational efficiency developer productivity and enterprise resiliency.

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company teammates and customers through the delivery of resilient secure and customer-centric technology. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in technology modern engineering practices cloud capabilities automation and a deep understanding of our business units.

How Youll Spend Your Time

Strategic Leadership & Business Alignment
You will develop and implement enterprise cloud enablement and transformation plans that support strategic long- and short-term goals for BOKF and its lines of business.
You will develop a thorough understanding of business strategies operating processes information needs and administrative procedures to ensure cloud and modernization initiatives enable measurable business outcomes.
You will serve as a trusted advisor and communications link between business leadership technology leadership and enterprise stakeholders regarding cloud strategy modernization priorities technology risks and investment decisions.
You will envision produce and advance strategic playbooks and multi-year roadmaps that encompass cloud platforms application modernization automation observability platform engineering lifecycle management and emerging technology enablement.

Cloud Transformation & Modernization
You will orchestrate and deliver foundational cloud capabilities that accelerate enterprise digital transformation initiatives and enable modern resilient and scalable business technology solutions.
You will establish modernization frameworks migration patterns reference architectures and transformation playbooks that help applications move from legacy environments to cloud-enabled and cloud-native architectures.
You will drive initiatives that reduce technical debt improve operational efficiency strengthen resiliency and increase technology agility through automation and modernization.

Platform Engineering & Cloud Services
You will lead an expert team responsible for designing building improving operating and advancing cloud platform services across AWS and other strategic cloud environments.
You will establish enterprise standards for cloud architecture automation platform engineering reliability engineering observability governance and operational excellence.
You will champion Infrastructure as Code CI/CD pipelines DevOps GitOps self-service engineering capabilities and shift-left practices that improve developer productivity and accelerate solution delivery.

How Youll Spend Your Time Continued

Operational Delivery & Governance
You will direct the design development implementation support and operation of automated systems and cloud platforms to ensure delivery teams adhere to business requirements company methodology for project management enterprise architecture standards security controls and compliance expectations.
You will establish KPIs and KRIs that measure platform health cloud adoption transformation progress operational effectiveness resiliency customer experience and value realization.
You will make recommendations for system enhancements platform improvements procedure improvements and technology investments that strengthen the effectiveness of technology delivery.

Financial Vendor & Resource Leadership
You will prepare and manage annual operating and capital budgets including resource planning project financial analysis cloud consumption governance forecasting optimization and financial tracking.
You will provide leadership for strategic vendor partnerships cloud providers managed service relationships consulting engagements contract negotiations and service agreements.
You will ensure technology investments are aligned with enterprise priorities and deliver measurable business operational risk and resiliency outcomes.

Talent & Organizational Leadership
You will direct leaders architects engineers and transformation specialists by creating delivering and monitoring meaningful performance goals and clearly understood expectations.
You will build organizational capability through recruiting coaching mentoring training succession planning and internal mobility opportunities.
You will establish a culture focused on accountability innovation collaboration continuous learning operational excellence and responsible risk management.

Education Requirements

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelors Degree in Information Systems Computer Engineering Computer Science Business Information Management or a related field and at least 12 years of progressively responsible technology experience delivering enterprise-level IT solutions leading highly skilled technical professionals managing financial operations administering service contracts and driving organizational transformation.

Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure cloud platforms application modernization platform engineering DevOps or digital transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated success leading managers architects engineers and technical professionals through large-scale technology change.
Experience managing multi-million-dollar technology budgets vendor relationships cloud providers managed service relationships and contract negotiations.
Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
Consideration is given to advanced technical certifications in cloud technologies infrastructure architecture cybersecurity DevOps automation project management and technology leadership.

Experience Requirements

Technical Skills & Knowledge
Cloud Platforms & Architecture
Deep understanding of AWS services architecture landing zones multi-account operating models migration strategies cloud governance and operational best practices.
Strong knowledge of Azure hybrid cloud architectures enterprise network integration identity integration and secure cloud connectivity patterns.
Experience designing highly available resilient scalable secure and compliant cloud platforms for enterprise workloads.

DevOps Automation & Platform Engineering
Strong knowledge of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines GitOps Infrastructure as Code Terraform CloudFormation automation frameworks and modern software delivery practices.
Experience establishing platform engineering capabilities reusable service patterns self-service capabilities developer enablement models and shift-left practices.
Ability to guide engineering teams toward automation standardization continuous improvement and measurable operational maturity.

Infrastructure Operations & Resiliency
Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies including compute storage virtualization operating systems networking data center services business continuity disaster recovery and hybrid operations.
Experience with observability platforms monitoring solutions operational analytics Site Reliability Engineering principles incident management problem management change management and ITIL practices.
Knowledge of proactive lifecycle management platform currency technical debt reduction resiliency planning and operational readiness practices.

Application Modernization & Engineering Enablement
Knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns application migration strategies modernization approaches containerization Kubernetes OpenShift microservices API-driven integration and modern application delivery methodologies.
Ability to partner with application architecture cybersecurity and business teams to establish migration and modernization priorities based on business value technical risk and operational impact.

Leadership Business & Financial Acumen
Advanced knowledge of technology-based information resource management systems and management information systems.
Advanced management project management relationship management and team-building skills.
Advanced vendor management service contract administration and contract negotiation experience.
Ability to negotiate compromise build consensus influence executive decision-making and align diverse stakeholder groups around enterprise outcomes.
Excellent interpersonal oral written presentation and executive communication skills.
Strong financial management budgeting forecasting resource planning business case development investment prioritization and value realization capabilities.
Good understanding of leading-edge technologies and how they are applied in a business environment.