Strategic IT Director - Digital Transformation & Security

Dexter Magnetic Technologies supplies specialized magnetic solutions and components to demanding applications in the medical, aerospace, defense, semiconductor manufacturing, oil and gas, and industrial end markets. Dexter’s engineers solve complex customer problems with innovative solutions, winning business based on quality, customer support, and application engineering expertise.

The IT Director is a strategic technology leader responsible for developing, managing, and advancing the company’s enterprise-wide IT environment. This role ensures that technology solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with business objectives to enhance operational performance, support growth, and maintain compliance with applicable regulations.

The IT Director leads the company’s strategic IT roadmap, represents technology priorities in organizational planning, manages enterprise IT investments and budgets, and oversees the effective design, implementation, and operation of enterprise infrastructure, systems, and services across the organization.

This role collaborates closely with business and technology leaders, including Information & Cyber Security, ERP, and Business Information teams, to drive operational excellence, digital transformation, cybersecurity readiness, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.

• Develop and execute the enterprise IT roadmap to improve user experience, operational efficiency, system reliability, and business scalability.
• Partner with executive leadership to align technology initiatives with corporate strategy and operational priorities.
• Lead digital transformation initiatives that modernize business systems, automate workflows, and improve productivity across the organization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that enhance operational performance, collaboration, reporting, and security.
• Serve as a core member of the company AI Committee and support responsible AI adoption, governance, and operational integration.
• Establish IT governance standards, policies, and lifecycle management practices that support long-term business objectives.

• Oversee the design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of secure and reliable infrastructure, including networks, servers, cloud platforms, endpoints, and collaboration technologies.
• Manage enterprise business systems including ERP, CRM, HRIS, Microsoft 365, collaboration tools, and engineering applications.
• Partner with business stakeholders and software vendors to ensure systems are properly configured, optimized, maintained, and aligned with operational requirements.
• Support enterprise application integrations, system upgrades, and technology standardization initiatives.
• Ensure infrastructure and enterprise systems support future growth, operational scalability, and evolving business needs.
• Drive continuous improvement of IT service delivery, system availability, and user experience.

• Partner with Information Security leadership to support secure infrastructure architecture, endpoint protection, access governance, vulnerability remediation, and compliance initiatives.
• Develop, maintain, and periodically test disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Identify and mitigate operational, cybersecurity, and business continuity risks across enterprise technology environments.
• Support audit readiness, regulatory compliance efforts, and technology policy enforcement where applicable.

• Direct daily IT operations, establish priorities, define service standards, and ensure departmental KPIs and service expectations are achieved.
• Lead incident escalation management and ensure timely resolution of critical infrastructure and user‑impacting issues.
• Develop and maintain IT operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting to support performance management and continuous improvement.
• Conduct root cause analysis for recurring service interruptions or KPI deficiencies and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate…