Corporate Systems Director, IT

Pen Fed is hiring a (Hybrid) Corporate Systems Director, IT at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary responsibility for this role is to act as a strategic leader of corporate systems technology to lead our corporate systems, enterprise production control and other technology teams. This critical role is responsible for the overall business project delivery and modernization strategy of our Corporate Systems, ensuring its stability and performance as it continues to support essential business operations.

This leader will act as a key liaison, engaging business leaders to align technology initiatives with organizational goals and guarantee the delivery of world-class technology support. This role will serve as a member of the senior IT leadership team in shaping business and IT strategy, making investment and priority trade-off decisions, reducing unit costs, negotiating and managing vendor contracts, adopting AI approach to delivery and improving employee talent, commitment and morale.

Pen Fed is hiring a (Hybrid) Corporate Systems Director, IT at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary responsibility for this role is to act as a strategic leader of corporate systems technology to lead our corporate systems, enterprise production control and other technology teams. This critical role is responsible for the overall business project delivery and modernization strategy of our Corporate Systems, ensuring its stability and performance as it continues to support essential business operations.

This leader will act as a key liaison, engaging business leaders to align technology initiatives with organizational goals and guarantee the delivery of world-class technology support. This role will serve as a member of the senior IT leadership team in shaping business and IT strategy, making investment and priority trade-off decisions, reducing unit costs, negotiating and managing vendor contracts, adopting AI approach to delivery and improving employee talent, commitment and morale.

This leader will help improve system availability, resiliency, security and stability through prevention of issues causing unavailability, detecting through effective monitoring and early intervention, managing the outage calls with all the stakeholders efficiently and purposefully. This role is critical in ensuring continuous improvement of corporate systems covering enterprise systems like People Soft, Nautilus, UiPath and Production Control. The leader ensures effective vulnerability management, reporting & tracking, and deploy efficient strategies to prevent repeat issues.

The job requires extensive experience in leading and maturing corporate system processes, specifically in Production Control, Batch Job execution, UiPath BOTs, Peoplesoft, Nautilus systems. This position will work with IT Governance, Business Resiliency, Audit, vendors, business stakeholders, Information security, infrastructure, Pen Fed senior management and other IT teams to stabilize and mature system health.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Modernization Strategy:
  Develop and execute a thoughtful, phased strategy for the continued support, enhancement, and eventual modernization of platforms, ensuring business continuity throughout the lifecycle.
• Budget & Resource Allocation:
  Manage the technology budget for the platform area, making strategic investment decisions on tooling, infrastructure, and personnel.
• Vendor Management:
  Oversee relationships with all key…