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Director, IT Infrastructure
American Standard
Piscataway, NJ, United States
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Overview
The Director of IT, Infrastructure will have leadership responsibilities and fiscal accountability within the overall IT department. He/She will serve as a part of the IT management team and provide guidance and advice within the department. This role will lead all IT Infrastructure related tasks and initiatives and it will manage a diverse team of professionals that support the infrastructure services with Lixil Water Technology Americas (includes US, Canada, Mexico, DR, LatAm and China office operations).
Responsibilities
• Partner with Business stake holders to assist them in meeting their goals and objectives
• Implement new IT Transformation Strategy based on CIO and business leadership team’s guidance
• Collaborating and working with other IT groups while providing key inputs and guidance for the overall management of IT
• Developing system and organizational roadmaps that ensure business and service continuity
• Program and project management of key projects as well as mentoring of other project managers
• Management of key vendors, contractors, and cloud providers
• Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements including J-Sox (Sarbanes Oxley)
• Managing annual fiscal planning and budgets for the infrastructure group
• Design and specify future infrastructure deployments with considerations for capacity, availability, security, and interoperability and ranges all the way from the underlying hardware to the application tier
• Revisit Data-Center Operations to reduce expenditure and invest in Cloud technology
• Implement State of the Art SD-WAN Network for all of our offices, show rooms, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities
• Implement and manage a recurring process to Secure our Network and Data
• Manage IT Infrastructure cost center and deliver technology and services based on preset budget (mission)
• Direct and respond to infrastructure outages, including technical troubleshooting and situation management
• Ensure issues are resolved within defined SLAs
• Collaborate and partner with Lixil Corporate IT department to implement initiatives with Global IT scope
• Participate in Lixil Global CTO summits as required
• Establish SLAs and KPIs aligned to business objectives
• Accountable for quality of services and solutions delivered
• Create the IT infrastructure for the company to include all aspects of technology operations (including Help Desk, network management, telephony, cloud services, database management, storage and business continuity/disaster recovery, etc.)
• Manage vendor relationships and renegotiate contracts to reduce cost
• Oversee procurement of software and hardware and management of IT assets and inventory
• Ability and willingness to handle many big team initiatives simultaneously
• Provide configuration management and accurately assess the impact of modifications and vulnerabilities for each information security system
• Maintain appropriate operational information assurance posture for programs
• Developing effective, efficient, and rigorous processes and methodologies which include monitoring and reporting
• Recruiting, hiring, mentoring and developing of the team
Qualifications
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in IT Management with increasing responsibilities
• Demonstrated organization and team building skills
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Business or Computer Science; or equivalent,
• 10 Years’ experience in discipline Project Management methodologies
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask across multiple concurrent projects
• Ability to work effectively with internal or international teams and external vendors in a collaborative environment
• PMP, ITIL certification desirable
• Ability to travel up to 15%