Director, PEPI - Technology Services CIO Domain

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• IT / Product / Engineering [Technology Services]
• CDD/Strategy
• Interim Management
• Merger Integration & Carve‑outs
• Rapid Results
• Supply Chain
• CFO Services

The Technology Services Team works directly with Private Equity Firms and their Portfolio Companies to drive measurable value through Applied AI. In the CIO Domain, engagements target the Enterprise IT Organization—Infrastructure, Systems Of Record, Cybersecurity, and IT Operations—helping Portfolio Companies embed AI to reduce cost, strengthen resilience, and accelerate IT‑enabled business outcomes. Specific focus areas include:

• AI‑enabled IT operating model design and enterprise architecture modernization
• AIOps and intelligent IT operations: predictive incident management, automated remediation, and self‑healing infrastructure
• AI governance frameworks: AI‑powered capabilities, model standards and lifecycle oversight, and AI capabilities risk management
• Data governance: metadata and data classification, lineage and quality standards, access controls, retention and regulatory compliance oversight
• Cloud infrastructure readiness for AI workload deployment (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Cybersecurity and AI risk: embedding AI‑era controls across identity, access management, threat detection, and security operations
• AI‑embedded enterprise systems: experience leveraging AI‑native capabilities within core systems of record (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Service Now), including embedded copilots, intelligent automation, predictive workflows, and vendor AI roadmap evaluation
• Data platform & BI transformation: track record leading large‑scale data platform modernization—including cloud and modern data platform architecture spanning hyperscalers and data‑lake environments, enterprise data governance, and business intelligence enablement—to support AI‑ready, insight‑driven decision‑making at scale
• Establishment of Fin Ops for cloud and AI/ML operation capabilities and processes. IT cost optimization through intelligent automation of service desk, IT operations, and infrastructure management
• End‑to‑end transformation execution, governance, and value tracking tied to IT financial targets

As a Director in the PEPI Technology Services AI team [CIO Domain], you will independently lead AI‑driven value creation engagements across the private equity lifecycle, with a specific focus on the CIO organization of PE‑backed portfolio companies. You own scope, workplan, client relationships, and financial outcomes end‑to‑end. You are the senior accountable leader on the engagement.

This role requires a practitioner who has operated inside or directly alongside CIO organizations—someone who has personally led IT transformations, managed vendors, governed AI deployments, or run enterprise technology programs—and who can translate that hands‑on operating experience into rapid, credible impact within the compressed timelines of a PE holding period.

• Engagement Leadership & Client Ownership
  • Establish and champion the full engagement lifecycle: develop and roll‑out playbooks for scoping, work planning, team management, executive communications, and financial delivery against defined and productized AI targets
  • Serve as primary point of contact for portfolio company CIOs, IT leadership teams, and PE deal partners—building trusted advisor relationships that extend across the holding period
  • Lead cross‑functional engagement teams spanning enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and IT operations
  • Drive executive‑level workshops and steering committee presentations;…