Vice President, Information Technology

• Develop and execute IT strategies, schedules, policies and programs for the organization’s data processing, network communications, business operations, telecommunications, computer services and management information systems, according to established goals and objectives.
• Create and direct strategic and tactical goals, policies and procedures for the IT department.
• Manages day-to-day IT Operations and escalations, outage management and enterprise communication.
• Create, review and maintain all IT Policy documentation, including and not limited to the IT Security Plan and the company disaster recovery strategy.
• Reviews and evaluates technical Contracts, Statements of Work and Service Level Agreements for suitability to meet Clients internal technical, performance and financial needs.
• Manages vendor relationships and addresses vendor shortcomings when they arise.
• Oversee the development of mission-critical applications and technology to support the company’s long-term goals and, depending on company size, provide direction and leadership to one or a number of development teams.
• Responsible for the design, development and implementation of organizational information systems, software applications, and IT support and infrastructure systems.
• Identify emerging information technologies to be analysed, assimilated and integrated within the organization.
• Involved in managing change requests and circumventing project roadblocks. Uses negotiation skills to find solutions for problems that arise in the course of delivering IT solutions.
• Personally, leads Initiatives/Programs and Projects as needed.
• Manages technical aspects of IT projects and maintenance activities, directs day-to-day allocation of staff time according to prioritization of tasks at hand.
• Creates business case justification for IT solutions.
• Compiles internal technical requirements and otherwise participates directly in the creation of Requests for Proposal for external IT vendors.
• Manages budget and controls expenses effectively.
• Directly responsible for the hiring and training of the IT staff.
• Establish program to monitor/maintains application patches, updates, releases.
• Develop and implement cyber security strategies and procedures.
• Guide the organization by leading the business analysis discipline for internal software development.
• Manage vendors including off-premise developers, application specialist, and system administrators
• Oversee availability of all core IT systems

• Master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or related field
• 8 plus years required of senior and executive leadership experience.
• 15+ years required of IT experience.
• Knowledge and practical experience across a formal systems development life cycle.
• Ability to align key stakeholders toward a common goal and drive results and facilitate change.
• Experience in deployment, integration, and on-going management of Enterprise Applications.
• Experience negotiating with vendors; ability to manage external relationships with contracting firms and application developers.
• Experience with systems design and development from business requirements analysis through to day-to-day management.
• Excellent understanding of project management principles.
• Superior understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to apply IT in solving business problems.
• Technical capability
• Experience in cyber security.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

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