Director of Information Technology

The Director of Information Technology provides enterprise leadership for S3 Aero Defense's technology environment across multiple facilities. This role leads the company's IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital transformation, data, analytics, applications, AI, automation, and technology-enabled process improvement functions under one coordinated strategy. The Director ensures technology priorities are aligned with business objectives, operational needs, regulatory obligations, and scalable growth.

The Director serves as a strategic business partner to executive and functional leaders, balancing secure and reliable day-to-day operations with innovation and scalable digital solutions. The role establishes technology governance, investment priorities, performance expectations, and risk controls while developing strong teams and ensuring technology initiatives create and deliver measurable business value.

• Develop and execute the enterprise technology strategy and roadmap, integrating infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, data, analytics, AI, automation, and digital transformation priorities with business objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop the IT Infrastructure Manager and Sr. Digital Transformation Manager; establish clear accountability, operating rhythms, growth plans, and team capability across both functions.
• Oversee the reliability, scalability, performance, and lifecycle management of technology infrastructure and end-user services across multiple buildings and company locations, including networks, servers, cloud environments, endpoints, business systems, backup capabilities, connectivity, and site-specific technology needs.
• Establish and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity and technology risk program, including security policies, access controls, monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, business continuity, and protection of company and customer data.
• Provide executive oversight for applicable cybersecurity, export control, customer, and regulatory requirements, including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) readiness and the secure handling of controlled information and technical data.
• Guide digital transformation adoption, implementation, and initiatives involving AI, application development, data science, analytics, business intelligence, data governance, workflow automation, and process improvement, ensuring solutions are practical, secure, scalable, adopted by business, and enable value creation.
• Partner with executive and functional leaders to assess business needs, prioritize the technology portfolio, manage organizational change, and translate technical opportunities and risks into clear business decisions that support scalable growth across facilities, business operations, and inorganic growth across acquired companies.
• Own technology governance, architecture standards, policies, vendor relationships, contracts, licensing, service levels, project delivery practices, and performance measures across the technology function.
• Develop and manage the annual technology operating and capital budgets; evaluate investments based on risk, business value, total cost of ownership, resource capacity, scalability, and measurable outcomes.
• Monitor technology performance, security posture, project progress, adoption, and business impact; identify issues early, communicate clearly, and drive timely corrective action and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 10 or more years of progressive experience in information technology, cybersecurity, digital transformation, enterprise applications, data, or related technology functions.
• 7 or more years of leadership experience managing technology leaders and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading technology strategy, infrastructure operations, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, budgets, vendors, and complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience directing digital transformation, data and analytics, AI, automation, application development, or business process improvement programs.

• Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, cloud and on-premises…