Vice President - Corporate Systems & IT

Vice President, Corporate Systems & IT

The Vice President, Corporate Systems & IT leads the strategy, modernization, governance, and operational excellence of Modern Niagara’s corporate systems and enterprise technology environment.

Reporting to the CIO, this role is accountable for the performance, evolution, security, and continuous improvement of core business systems including ERP (Net Suite), HCM (UKG), enterprise infrastructure (Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra  / Azure AD), IT service management, cybersecurity, IT policy and standards, and the responsible deployment of corporate AI capabilities.

This leader balances operational reliability with forward-looking transformation, enabling scalable growth and strengthening the company’s digital foundation across the organization.

This role is critical to supporting Modern Niagara’s continued growth, operational excellence, and digital transformation. The Vice President, Corporate Systems & IT ensures the organization’s enterprise technology platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with evolving business needs.

Their leadership directly impacts business continuity, employee experience, cybersecurity posture, enterprise governance, and the organization’s ability to responsibly adopt emerging technologies, including AI, to improve productivity and decision‑making across the business.

• Lead the strategy, governance, modernization, and operational performance of Modern Niagara’s enterprise systems and technology environment.
• Strengthen organizational scalability, security, resilience, and service delivery through modern infrastructure, cybersecurity, ITSM, and governance practices.
• Enable business growth and operational efficiency by improving enterprise platforms, business processes, reporting, automation, and responsible AI adoption.

• Own the strategy, roadmap, performance, and continuous improvement of Corporate Systems platforms.
• Partner with Finance, People & Culture, Construction, and corporate functions to improve end-to-end business processes, controls, reporting, and user adoption.
• Lead needs identification and prioritization with systems integration teams, manage corporate systems data flows, quality and automation, and shared service governance to ensure reliability, scalability, and decision‑useful information.

• Own and evolve enterprise cloud and infrastructure strategy, with accountability for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra  / Azure AD, networking, endpoint management, and collaboration platforms.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, scalability, and cost‑effective performance across cloud, infrastructure, identity, and workplace technologies.
• Lead identity and access management strategy, including SSO, MFA, conditional access, privileged access controls, and lifecycle governance.
• Drive modernization of legacy technologies and establish a secure, well‑governed digital workplace.

• Establish and mature ITSM capabilities including incident, problem, change, request, asset, and service catalog management.
• Improve service delivery, user experience, support responsiveness, and operational discipline through defined SLAs, service metrics, and continuous improvement.
• Build dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into service performance, operational health, and business impact.

• Own enterprise cybersecurity strategy, governance, and execution across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and third‑party risk domains.
• Strengthen security posture through modern controls, security architecture, awareness, monitoring, and incident response readiness.
• Lead business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience planning in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Ensure technology risks are identified, communicated, and managed appropriately at the corporate level.

• Establish and maintain enterprise IT policies, standards, and control frameworks covering infrastructure, security, identity, data, systems…