IT Director with Azure - Florida

Hello,

We at NJTECH are focused on hiring highly skilled professionals who are excited by the opportunity to make a true impact on their careers as well as on our clients' business. We power our clients success and drive our consultants career growth.

We are seeking an experienced and outstanding Director of IT Engineering for one of our esteemed clients.

Director of IT Engineering

Purpose of the Position:

This position is foundational and critical to the success of the Company s digital transformation

initiative, as all other information system and data technology will rely upon the cloud architecture,

infrastructure, governance, security, and communications capability established by this role and

team. The Director will lead the planning, design, implementation, security and governance of all

cloud (and on premise until fully migrated) compute, networking, storage, and web services

primarily on the Microsoft Azure platform and including responsibility for capacity and performance

planning, management, costing/ budgeting, incident response, backup and recovery,

administration and security of the platform.

• Medical (including prescription), Dental, Vision (client subsidized)
• FSA/HSA (Depending on Medical Plan chosen)
• $50,000 Life Insurance (Client paid)
• Additional Voluntary Life Insurance (Team Member paid)
• Employee Assistance Program EAP (Client paid)
• Long Term Disability (Client paid)
• Short Term Disability (Team Member paid)
• Supplemental Insurance such as Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital (Team Member Paid)

• Paid Time Off 15 days accrued in year 1, 9 holidays, and 1 day of Volunteering Time Off
• 401k (eligible upon completion of 90 days of employment and must be at least 21 years of age)
• Pet Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection

Key Responsibilities:

Functional:

• Own the outcome. Execute as one collectively with IT peers and stakeholders.
• As a culture shaper and builder, model company values.
• Lead a high-performance team.
• Inclusive leadership: adaptive and open growth mindset towards learning, embracing diversity, and inter-cultural awareness.
• Fosters new ideas and drives the continual learning and professional competency of self and team.

• Demonstrate strategic vision, anticipate future trends, and incorporate knowledge of successful applications of information technology to ensure information technology efforts align with organizational objectives.
• Collaboratively plan with IT leadership counterparts to establish transformation direction, technology requirements, roadmaps (priority, timing) and funding requirements, aligned with Corporate strategic plans.
• Design, plan and implement a highly available, performant, fluidly scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure, and operations capability to enable best-in-class data and information system, data products, and services.
• Relentlessly pursue continuous improvement and automation.
• Recruit, develop and retain highly competent, accountable, and self-directed infrastructure engineering team members.
• Manage and monitor resources consumption, develop, and adhere to budgets and optimize the cost, value, and specification of cloud resources.
• Establish a concise set of metrics / KPIs to monitor and report on platform cost and performance.
• Implement accountability reporting to align cost drivers with organizational management responsibility.
• Develop and execute cloud migration project plans, including cost, time and resource requirements mapped to the application and data capability drivers.
• Establish and maintain a cost-effective, high-quality stable of strategic external partners who augment client team members as needed for cost effectiveness, variable demand, or skill depth.
• Drive the cultural changes necessary to enable modern agile (most likely based on the scaled agile framework), DevSecOps practices (on the Microsoft DevOps platform), including automation, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, and continuous integration capabilities.
• Maintain seamless planning and execution with and service to information system, data, and security counterparts.
• Collaborate with the IT Architecture team to align with and develop future state reference architectures and engineering practices.
• Maintain deep understanding of business processes and how they map to the technology stack.
• Establish meaningful, leading information system OKRs, KPIs, metrics.
• Develop and manage the opex / capex budgets.

Team Member Leadership Qualities:

• Model for each assigned team member compliant and effective job performance and competency in areas aligned with UMA s mission and values.

• Support the hiring and onboarding of IT team members as needed.
• Model UMA values.
• Demonstrate personal honesty and integrity.

Support Institutional Initiatives:

• Keep current on institutional goals, objectives, and progress.
• Engage in institutional sponsored activities and initiatives as appropriate.
• Lead with courage in support of change initiatives that impact organization.
• Manage and assist in coordinating efforts between departments within UMA.

Compliance:

• Demonstrate knowledge of, and carefully follow all applicable federal and state compliance requirements and regulations including those prescribed by the Department of Education, accrediting agencies, CIE, and internal UMA policies and procedures.

• Effectively communicate compliance requirements to students and other staff as appropriate and quickly escalate any compliance concerns to the Compliance department.

Work Experience, Skills & Abilities:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor s degree and or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a technical discipline.

• Ability to demonstrate that they have built and managed high performing teams.
• Minimum 10 years experience designing, planning, and implementing enterprise-level IT engineering and operations solutions, ideally raising maturity or people, process, and technology and in automating processes.
• Referenceable expert knowledge of the Microsoft Azure platform and engineering a resilient, scalable and performant technology fabric .
• Comfortable bi-modally improving today s solutions while timely building and migrating to the future through a portfolio of significant, parallel initiatives.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and processes, including CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring / measuring processes.
• Information-based, decision-making mindset, strong analytical and technical capabilities to assess and drive process improvements and solve complex problems.
• Motivated to inclusively collaborate with and serve others in achieving outcomes while acting as a member of senior IT leadership.
• Adept at communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead teams via influence through ambiguity and complexity to a new way of working and to support program, process, and organizational improvements across the organization.
• Natural curiosity to learn, ask questions, identify mistaken assumptions, and bring an open- minded approach. A high level of initiative and results focused.
• Ability to manage fully remote teams.
• Critical thinking and business acumen.
• Proficiency with programming/scripting automation (e.g., PowerShell, Power Automate, BASH, Python).

Preferred Requirements:

• Advanced Microsoft Azure Certifications (e.g., Azure Architect, DevOps Expert, Systems Engineer).

Working Environment:

• Home office.
• Up to 10% of travel required - Valid Driver s License required.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed.

Physical Demands:

• Requires long periods of sitting at a desk working on a computer.
• Requires ability to travel.
• Requires occasional bending, stooping, and squatting.
• Requires occasional lifting of up to 10 lbs.

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