Director of Technology

Director of Technology

Location:

New York City or Boca, Florida Position Overview

A growing global commercial finance organization is seeking a strategic and hands-on Director of Technology to lead its technology strategy, infrastructure, enterprise systems, cybersecurity, data initiatives, and digital transformation. This leader will partner closely with executive leadership and business teams to improve operational efficiency, modernize technology platforms, strengthen data and reporting capabilities, manage technology risk, and build a scalable environment that supports continued growth.

The ideal candidate brings broad enterprise technology leadership experience within financial services, commercial lending, fintech, or another regulated industry. This person must be equally comfortable developing a long‑term technology roadmap, managing vendors and budgets, leading complex system implementations, and addressing day‑to‑day operational needs.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive technology roadmap aligned with business priorities and growth objectives.
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, systems optimization, cybersecurity, AI governance, operational risk, and scalability.
• Identify opportunities to automate workflows, improve reporting, streamline operations, and reduce reliance on manual processes.
• Evaluate and implement technologies that improve business performance, security, and operational resilience.
• Establish policies and governance standards for the responsible use of AI across the organization.
• Clearly communicate technology strategies, risks, opportunities, project updates, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Build and lead an effective technology team as organizational needs evolve.

• Oversee the administration and lifecycle management of laptops, mobile devices, user accounts, and other end-user technologies.
• Ensure employees receive responsive and effective first-level technical support.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for the company’s managed service provider and other technology partners.
• Manage escalations and ensure timely resolution of infrastructure, security, systems, and end-user issues.
• Establish IT operating standards, documentation, support procedures, and service expectations.
• Maintain a reliable, secure, and scalable technology environment.

• Manage and optimize the company’s Loan Management System and related business applications.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and migration to a new enterprise lending platform.
• Assess internally developed Excel and VBA tools and transition appropriate workflows to scalable enterprise or third-party solutions.
• Partner with business leaders to improve processes supporting underwriting, collateral monitoring, treasury operations, portfolio management, and reporting.
• Oversee integrations among lending systems, ERP platforms, reporting tools, banking systems, and third-party applications.
• Provide technical leadership and services that support customer-facing SaaS products and their continued growth.

• Lead enterprise reporting, business intelligence, and data analytics initiatives.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business users and technology platforms, including Power BI, ERP, lending, and reporting systems.
• Improve data quality, reporting accuracy, accessibility, automation, and operational visibility.
• Support integrations across internal applications, SaaS platforms, and reporting environments.
• Partner with stakeholders to develop dashboards and reporting solutions that improve business decision‑making.

• Serve as the organization’s technology security leader and oversee its cybersecurity strategy.
• Develop and maintain security policies, controls, monitoring procedures, and incident‑response protocols.
• Manage information security governance, technology risk, data protection, and regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate security initiatives with MSPs, consultants, auditors, vendors, and other external partners.
• Maintain disaster recovery,…