Director of IT

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the development and implementation of our technology strategies, systems, and processes.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a reliable, secure, and cost-effective information technology infrastructure to support our organization's long-term objectives.
• Deep understanding of IT and technology trends, and experience with the financial services industry.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a passion for driving innovation and collaboration, negotiating contracts, overseeing the risk management and compliance of its IT Systems, and maintaining a Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Collaborate with business and department heads to inform their strategy development and jointly develop “technology forward” approaches to maximize impact, including automation and AI related projects.
• Drive information technology strategy for an organization, developing and implementing the policies and goals.
• Directing the delivery of IT services, including effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure, customer/user support and operations.
• Supervise personnel engaged in developing, maintaining and modifying system
• software and application programs and in operation of computer hardware for users.
• Supervise and manage staff including staffing, goal setting, performance management, and training and development
• Engineer systems for project and operational needs including installation, rebuild, upgrades, maintenance of hardware, software, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. to ensure optimal performance and security.
• Monitor systems service levels, integrity and security, and respond to issues including repair and recovery of failures and/or security breaches.
• Support IT team in system design and analysis.
• Perform and/or oversee network management, including adding users, network topology and structure, optimization, security and active directory.
• Drive BCP/DR planning across technology organization.
• Responsibilities include maintaining communication with Datacenters, monitor the readiness of datacenter facilities and data communication networks.