VP of Technology Enterprise Infrastructure

We are looking for an organized, professional strategic leader to join as a VP Enterprise Infrastructure
. The Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure provides strategic leadership for GTE Financials’ enterprise infrastructure, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable technology services that support business objectives and exceptional member experiences. This role is responsible for developing and executing the infrastructure strategy, driving cloud modernization, automation, operational excellence, and technology standardization while ensuring reliable day-to-day operations.

As a trusted business partner, the Vice President aligns technology investments with organizational goals, fosters innovation, and communicates effectively with employees, executive leadership, and the Board of Directors. This position plays a critical role in advancing GTE Financials’ digital transformation, operational efficiency, and long-term technology strategy.

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop high-performing infrastructure teams while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Recruit, retain, develop, and manage talent, including performance management, succession planning, and workforce planning.
• Establish department objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), and operational metrics aligned with organizational and executive priorities.
• Conduct timely performance evaluations and career development planning utilizing Integrity Coaching principles.
• Create an engaging work environment that promotes teamwork, inclusion, creativity, and operational excellence.
• Build leadership capability across the infrastructure organization through coaching, mentoring, and professional development.

• Develop and execute the enterprise infrastructure strategy supporting business growth, digital transformation, AI adoption, automation, and data-driven capabilities.
• Develop and execute enterprise cloud strategy, including governance, security, cost optimization, and modernization of infrastructure.
• Partner with Information Security leadership to ensure enterprise infrastructure aligns with cybersecurity strategy, regulatory requirements, and risk management objectives.
• Develop strategic technology partnerships and hold vendors accountable for innovation, service delivery, contract performance, and business outcomes.
• Define enterprise architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and infrastructure governance across clouds, on-premises, network, compute, storage, collaboration, and endpoint technologies.
• Lead enterprise cloud strategy, including architecture, governance, security, modernization, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
• Deliver highly available, resilient, and secure infrastructure services while maintaining 24x7 operational support and meeting or exceeding 99.9% service availability objectives.
• Oversee enterprise infrastructure operations including networking, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms, identity management, backup, disaster recovery, and collaboration technologies.
• Direct infrastructure modernization initiatives including automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), platform standardization, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Prioritize and execute multiple enterprise initiatives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while balancing operational stability and strategic innovation.
• Establish service level objectives (SLOs), operational dashboards, and performance metrics to ensure service quality and continuous improvement.
• Own enterprise infrastructure financial planning, including operating budgets, capital investments, technology lifecycle management, capacity planning, and ROI measurement.
• Ensure infrastructure resilience through comprehensive disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and incident response strategies.

• Ensure highly available, resilient, and recoverable infrastructure that meets enterprise service level objectives and business continuity requirements
• Partner with executive leadership to identify emerging technologies that improve operational efficiency, member experience, and business capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with Information Security leadership to ensure infrastructure architecture supports cybersecurity strategy, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk management.
• Develop and maintain enterprise technology policies, standards, governance frameworks, and operational procedures that support regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and security best practices.
• Lead strategic technology planning, evaluation, selection, and implementation of new platforms and infrastructure solutions.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with technology vendors, service providers, and business partners while ensuring contractual performance, innovation, and value realization.
• Serve as a trusted technology advisor and business partner to…