21 Apr
Senior Director of IT
California, Sacramento , 95811 Sacramento USA

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Immediate full-time position for a Senior Director, Information Technology for a non-profit educational organization. Ideal candidate will have background leading a diverse team encompassing infrastructure administrators, web developers, DBAs, data analysts and entorganizationrise engineers. Must have at least five years of progressive leadership experience and experience deploying, optimizing, securing and supporting virtualized, hosted and cloud-based complex data systems, applications and infrastructure. Experience in education, healthcare or criminal justice domain is helpful. The Senior Director, Information Technology is a full-time senior management position that oversees, guides, and is accountable for organization's IT staff, technology resources, practices, services, applications, data systems and infrastructure. The Senior Director, Information Technology drives innovation through collaboration with organization's executives, and provides technical leadership and mentorship to maximize the availability, alignment, coherence, efficiency, and value of organization's technology tools, resources and design ideology with the organizational strategy and mission, as well as all internal/external initiatives and partner engagements.

Daily Responsibilities Include: 1. Coach, mentor, lead and grow a high performing and diverse team designed to effectively execute business initiatives in alignment with organizational mission, strategy and values, including: managers/supervisors/directors, DBAs, IT and systems administrators, architects and support staff 2. Interface with Executive Management to understand, advance, implement and maximize alignment to organizational strategy, goals, structure and objectives 3. Bring thought leadership, subject-matter and technical expertise to inform and advance internal projects, client/partner engagements and the company's mission 4. Work in coordination with the Project Management Office and organizational leadership to drive the efficient, timely and effective completion of programs, projects and initiatives including the determination of scope, cost, timelines and milestones 5. Oversee and promote innovation in the design, development and methods, processes, infrastructure, services and systems used to consolidate and analyze diverse data sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for clients/partners and company 6. Aggressively drive innovation in emerging technology practices that support big data aggregation, analysis, visualization, machine learning and associated data science and research fields and practices 7. Assess complex problems to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, and generate solutions. 8. Genuinely understand and effectively communicate the vision, strategy, deliverables and results of company initiatives spanning multiple fields (e.g., education, healthcare, justice, social and public services, etc.) to audiences within and outside the organization 9. Provide leadership in the thoughtful identification, articulation, design and development/implementation of appropriate infrastructure (cloud and on-premises), frameworks, models, tools, resources and processes to support the work of the organization 10. Serve as an organizational representative, team lead and subject matter expert (SME) in client and leadership team meetings, during development and design of solutions, and in the adoption of advanced modeling techniques, tools and architectures 11. Work with senior management to support organizational initiatives and strategy, and to provide updates and information regarding the status of initiatives and other activities as directed 12. Implement, maintain and support tools, systems and resources (e.g., network infrastructure, hardware, software, access control, servers, etc.) used by company on a day-to-day basis 13. Support executive leadership team as needed with a variety of projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications: 1. Excellent communication skills 2. Ability to lead, mentor, motivate and develop a high-performing team 3. A strong command of the English language, grammar, and spelling 4. Strong knowledge of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 5. Exceptional organizational skills, ability to multi-task and work under tight timelines and competing priorites 6. Well-developed analytical and problem solving skills. 7. Attention to detail and a strong focus on validating output and outcomes 8. Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing landscape and duties 9. An intrinsic commitment to improving public education, equity and life outcomes

Education and Experience Requirements: 1. An advanced degree in a relevant field or significant work experience and demonstrated proficiency in applicable technical areas 2. 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in a relevant field 3. Experience deploying, designing, optimizing, securing and supporting virtualized, hosted and cloud-based high-availability, complex data systems, applications and infrastructure 4. Familiarity with emerging and existing information technology and subject-matter-specific (e.g., public education, healthcare, criminal justice, etc.) industry-specific security and access control best practices 5. Experience effectively communicating technical information for a range of audiences in both written and oral settings 6. Experience working on large scale cloud native and internally hosted big data and data science initiatives 7. Experience with machine learning, predictive analytics and/or data visualization 8. Peer-reviewed publications and/or conference presentations in relevant subject-matter

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