How You\'ll Make an Impact:Somatus is seeking a hands-on Director of IT Infrastructure to architect, scale, and manage our cloud and enterprise environments with a heavy focus on Microsoft Azure. This role requires a technical player-coach who brings current platform knowledge and a clear future vision for transforming our infrastructure strategy, service offerings, and workforce across multiple divisions. You will lead from the front, balancing high-level Azure governance and modernization with active, day-to-day involvement in cloud configuration, systems engineering, and environment optimization.
- Develops and executes the long-term infrastructure strategy while maintaining accountability for the successful day-to-day operation, performance, and reliability of enterprise systems.
- Provides strategic direction and oversight for the entire life cycle of design, development, operation, and support of IT systems across multiple divisions.
- Balances strategic planning with hands-on leadership, actively engaging in infrastructure initiatives, troubleshooting complex issues, and driving execution of critical projects when needed
- Provides direction on what emerging technologies should be incorporated into infrastructure and security products and services to deliver overall IT strategy successfully
- Develops the maturity of IT processes to improve efficiency, deliver innovations and increase collaboration with other business areas (e.g., through Agile and DevOps).
- Introduces innovative, differentiating infrastructure and operations capabilities that enhance our competitiveness and employee productivity.
- Builds successful stakeholder relationships with other IT and business leaders by developing a clear understanding of business needs, acting as a trusted advisor, and ensuring cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs.
- Creates and aligns an IT value map by linking targeted business outcomes with the future-state business capabilities required to achieve them.
- Manage the annual IT infrastructure budget to ensure that it\'s consistent with the overall strategic objectives of IT infrastructure and the enterprise and is within the plan.
- Defines, develops and manages a comprehensive and integrated ITSM landscape based on best-practice processes, disciplines, and related toolsets.
- Leverages influencing and negotiation skills across IT and the enterprise to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions to achieve business goals.
- Continue improving cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability &; cost/benefit-including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of the cloud infrastructure
- Provides oversight for strategic vendor and partner relationship management.
- Works with HR and the IT leadership team to develop and execute workforce plans that ensure infrastructure and security can supply skilled resources to meet current and future demand.
How You\'ll Strengthen Our Team:Qualifications: - Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- 5-7+ years of total IT experience, including 3-5+ years in a technology leadership role managing enterprise infrastructure strategy, technical implementation, and team operations.
- Proven ability to operate effectively at both strategic and tactical levels, shifting seamlessly between executive planning and detailed execution.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise technology strategy while maintaining a strong understanding of infrastructure operations and technical implementation.
- Hands-on technology leadership experience with the ability to engage in technical discussions, review architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and support implementation activities as needed.
- Strong execution mindset with a track record of delivering results through both leadership and direct involvement in key initiatives.
- Awareness of DevOps methodologies and mindset to drive rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions.
- Experience with building hybrid workplace secure solutions.
- Experience in establishing and improving DevOps, Cyber Security, and other working practices
- Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and execution skills.
- Ability to move fluidly between long-term strategic planning, team leadership, project execution, and operational problem-solving.
- Strong business acumen, including industry, domain-specific knowledge of the enterprise and its business units.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic staffing plan that ensures the right people are in the right roles at the right time and employees are highly engaged and satisfied.
- Knowledgeable in leading cloud adoption (at scale), including establishing governance mechanisms, delivering migration projects, and modifying IT\'s target operating model.
- Ability to build best in class infrastructure and operations with world-class benchmark metrics.
Compensation: $159,700 to $178,300 per year
We offer competitive compensation that reflects market conditions and recognizes the skills, experience, and contributions of our team members. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate\'s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and geographic location and may fall outside of the range shown above. In addition, this position may be eligible for a discretionary performance-based bonus in accordance with the Company\'s applicable incentive compensation plans
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
