Director - Hybrid Cloud Foundation Services

Director - Hybrid Cloud Foundation Services

Please note, this position is designated as flexible, which means the selected candidate may be required to report to the assigned office in Greensboro, NC at least part of the time each week.

Cloud doesn't scale itself. Behind every secure, reliable environment at KP is a foundation someone has to build, standardize, and run-and that's this team. If you want to shape how an entire enterprise consumes cloud, this is the seat.

The Hybrid Cloud Foundation Services team delivers the shared platform capabilities that make cloud consumable across the enterprise. This includes infrastructure engineering, architecture, service onboarding, common standards, cloud financial governance (Fin Ops), platform operations, and new service enablement guardrails. We build and run the foundational services that let KP application, analytics, and platform teams stand up and operate secure, reliable cloud environments through self‑service.

This managing level employee is responsible for overseeing the management of multiple application portfolios, directing and overseeing technical teams, and for directing teams through all software development lifecycle phases.

• Directs the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying customer and operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; gaining cross‑functional support for business plans and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly;
  
  and ensuring products and/or services meet customer requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.
• Demonstrates continuous learning and maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives; overseeing the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; motivating teams; preparing individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; staying current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; providing guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; and ensuring performance management guidelines and expectations drive business objectives and results.
• As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi‑channel, high‑volume, high‑transaction, on/off‑premise, cloud‑based solutions.
• Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Ensures the provision of appropriate resources to address systems incident support and troubleshooting.
• Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions.
• Directs and oversees technical teams in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by building and maintaining partnerships with Business Analyst and IT leadership to ensure team members understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Oversees the management of multiple application portfolios and/or provides resources in support of those portfolios by leveraging partnerships with IT teams (for example, Operations, Infrastructure, Architecture, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts), vendors, and business leaders to ensure adherence of written code to company standards.
• Oversees efforts to ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.
• Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs.
• Provides oversight…