IT Director - Digital Platform Services; hybrid-remote

IT Director - Digital Platform Services (hybrid-remote)

Job Openings IT Director - Digital Platform Services (hybrid-remote)

Job Description The Director, Digital Platform Services will represent Digital Technology by leading the delivery of digital foundation services for the enterprise. This position will be responsible for managing the Digital Integration Layer, Microservices Enablement, Dev Ops, Test Engineering, Application Performance Management, and Mobile Platforms. This role will drive technology modernizations enabled by digital native platforms, including Digital Integrations Layer, iPaaS, APIM, and Mobile platforms.

This role will partner with key DT and business stakeholders as well as DT & business leaders to provide strategic direction and alignment and will drive the standardization for consumption of digital platforms, accelerating product delivery. The incumbent will require to possess experience with a wide range of technologies/protocols, and a strong understanding of digital integration design patterns, Microservices architecture, Dev Ops practices, Test Engineering, and Application Performance Management.

This role entails strong technical background and will span the development and management of a robust integration framework and integration technologies/methods to support and integrate, digital products, cloud-based systems, and enterprise applications. This role is also responsible for establishing the roadmap for integration transformation, getting buy-in from key business and DT leaders, and developing the change management and training program necessary for this transformation.

This role requires an understanding of business issues/ opportunities, and working with various DT stakeholders in problem-solving, creating capabilities, and defining effective & efficient digital native platform adoption.
Benefits of this position:

• Full Benefits Package available (Medical, Dental, PTO)
• Industry leader

Job Duties and Responsibilities: The main responsibilities are:

• Strategic Digital Integrations planning for DT organization.
• Run an Agile-based approach for modernization and changes to integrations, as well as manage Agile delivery of APIs and digital integration services.
• Lead digital platform services strategy, adoption, and standardization in partnership with Digital Products & Platform Leads, Architecture, business, and subject matter experts.
• Highly effective decision-making/critical thinking/problem-solving skills with a collaborative and results-oriented leadership style.
• Lead Dev Ops function and define standard adoption of Dev Ops practices and toolchain.
• Develop digital native platform strategy with clear objectives and aligned with the business, enterprise DT strategy.
• Communicate effectively with key constituents to reinforce the technology standardization and benefits of adopting standard patterns, and reference architecture.
• Work closely with the Architecture lead in driving the adoption of Microservices architecture for new digital products as well as for the modernization of enterprise applications.
• Ensure a detailed succession plan is in place for both individuals and skills to ensure sufficient staff depth is in place to meet the needs of the business.
• Compile and recommend wants/needs for the annual budgeting process and prepares a presentation to senior DT leadership.
• Manage the digital integration layer blueprint (logical architecture, data flow diagram, deployment architecture, etc.) while identifying new technologies to provide business value.
• Define integration standards, best practices, and reference architectures for application and data integration.
• Ensure that any new technology integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
• Guide team across the enterprise topology with requirements refinement, solution design, implementation execution, and system selection.
• Focus on defining and leveraging APIs as well as event-driven data streams, as appropriate for solutions. Develop and promote reference architectures for enterprise solutions.
• Provide leadership guidance for global implementations/ initiatives. Engage key business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise; be highly collaborative; drive communication to the business, product, and platform delivery teams.
• Participate in technology implementation reviews to evaluate and ensure that the design being applied meets policies, principles, and standards.
• Enable adoption of high-performance, highly scalable and flexible, secure, cost-effective solutions that meet business requirements and conform to architectural design and technology strategies.
• Ensure service operations, knowledge management, continuous improvement, service level, performance management, and availability management are operationalized across the Dev Ops toolchain, Microservices, API & Integrations platforms.
• Create and maintain…