Responsibilities:

Make infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety and soundness, resiliency, and scalability in the architecting and engineering of product solutions, as well as managing all technical delivery.
Work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for IT management and production, balancing the long-term and immediate needs.
Oversee data security, management, and governance.
Manage IT resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics.
Define the company’s overall technology strategy to support business objectives.
Facilitate developing and implementing disaster recovery and IT security failure plans.
Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including an understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps.
Create strategic plans and set timelines for evaluating, developing, and deploying all technical, web, and mobile services.
Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
Outline the goals for research and development.
Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
Acting as a mentor to team members.
Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of IT projects to market.
Staying on top of technology trends and developments.

Requirements:

•  Master’s degree in computer science or related field.

•  8 years working in a technological role.

•  5 years of managerial experience.

•  Advanced technological skillset and a demonstrated history with technology.

•  Exceptional team management skills.

•  Excellent verbal and written communication.

•  Ability to delegate efficiently.

• Ability to track and identify new technologies to solve complex business issues.

•  Strong department leader with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, process development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams.

•  Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude.

•  Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals.

•  Strong communication with the ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.

•  Strategic smarts, including the ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts.   

• Proficient in Microsoft