This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading defense manufacturer in a critical role. You’ll be responsible for managing a small, high-performing team as well as overseeing the design, development, and maintenance of the company's IT enterprise architecture.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage the IT strategy, budget, and roadmap, ensuring cost-effective utilization of resources, vendors and IT outsourcing partners while delivering strategic initiatives and projects on time and on budget.
- Establish and actively communicate a clear technology vision, roadmaps, and goals that support business growth and operational excellence.
- Provide thought leadership and guidance on emerging technologies, industry trends, and competitive landscapes to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
- Provide financial leadership in building the IT budget and controlling actual versus projected operating expenses.
- Lead a diverse team of IT support and engineering staff to foster a service-oriented culture.
- Leverage technology for process optimization, cost savings, and supporting revenue growth.
- Drive the implementation of compliant solutions in the defense contractor space to manage risk and ensure compliance with federal regulations.
- Foster a culture of ideas and experimentation, encouraging cross-functional collaboration.
- Collaborate with outsourced vendors to Implement and oversee robust cybersecurity measures to protect the company's digital assets, data, network, and systems from internal and external threats.
- Establish a comprehensive risk management framework and associated policies, ensuring periodic monitoring and compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.
- Establish and ensure IT compliance with business continuity, disaster recovery and data backup and retention policies.
- Lead collaboration with business units to identify technology needs, prioritize projects, and ensure seamless integration of IT solutions into business processes.
- Establish pro-active governance across the IT roadmap, major initiatives, and ongoing operations. Develop and publish ITIL-based performance metrics and drive continuous improvement.
- Cultivate strong relationships with external partners, vendors, and technology providers to leverage best practices and stay current with industry innovations.
- Ensure internal and external customer satisfaction with IT through facilitation of project management and timely communications.
- Define KPIs and metrics to measure the effectiveness of technology initiatives, provide regular updates to the executive team.
- Analyze data and insights to drive continuous improvement in technology operations.
Requirements And Desired Experience
- Bachelor's in Information Technology, Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field. An MS, or MBA is a plus.
- At least 10 years of experience in IT leadership positions.
- Experience working with the Defense or Federal contracting industries is preferred
- Experience leading IT teams within manufacturing and engineering organizations
- Knowledge of defense contractor compliance requirements and processes (GCC High, CMMC, DFARS, etc.)
Technical Skills
- Expertise in implementing and managing enterprise-level IT systems, cloud platforms, and data analytics environments.
- Proficient with enterprise-wide data management including data analytics, business intelligence, database administration, data integrations and data warehousing.
- Expertise with enterprise architecture, system integration, and software package/application development methodologies.
- Knowledge of networks, end user computing and help desk processes.
- Specific experience implementing or managing ERPS systems (Deltek Costpoint a plus), Microsoft M365 suite, PowerBI, Cognos or other enterprise BI software and various engineering applications (i.e. Ansys, AutoCAD, Dassault SolidWorks, Teamcenter, etc.)
- Knowledge of cybersecurity practices and frameworks, threat assessment / detection, incident response, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Proficient in the SDLC and Agile methodologies.
- Deep experience with defense contractor industry-specific policy and documentation requirements; security, controls, monitoring, change management, etc.
- Experience migrating workloads to Azure hosted environments is a plus.
- Experience managing a highly outsourced IT model including System Integrators (SIs) & Managed IT Services Providers is essential.
- Applicable professional technical certifications are strongly desired.
Soft Skills
- Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across diverse cultures.
- Proven commitment to risk management, cybersecurity, and compliance.
- Experience managing and leading technical teams to maintain high levels of performance and retention.
- Customer-driven mindset providing superior service to both internal and external customer needs.
- Hands-on execution and operational approach in managing strategic initiatives and projects to completion.
- Able to influence internal teams as well as external partners to drive change.
- Understanding of change management to encourage adoption in an environment where the business and related IT functions are going through transition.
- Able to negotiate with internal and external partners to achieve the best outcomes for the business.
- Establish a safe and respectful environment where all employees are encouraged to share ideas.
- Integrity and professionalism in the overall attitude with which business is conducted.
Compensation: $150k - $230k annual salary
