VP of IT Infrastructure

DESCRIPTION

The Vice President (VP) of IT Infrastructure role is responsible for the strategy, architecture, and operations of Michael Baker's infrastructure.

This includes designing, maintaining, and optimizing key functional areas, particularly network and server infrastructure, cloud services, telecommunications/unified communications systems.

This role will provide the vision and strategy to drive next generation capabilities and services required to support future solutions, business capabilities and position Michael Baker to be a best-in-class enterprise architecture and service delivery.

To be effective in this leadership role, they will need to collaborate across multiple business stakeholders, vendor partners and team members to maximize our investments.

Have strong organizational, technical, process, and people management skills.

Work with our partners, and with peers to develop and coordinate strategy, architecture, roadmaps, budgets, and execution of IT services.

As a member of the IT leadership team, this role contributes to the development and execution of our IT strategy and ensures its alignment with the business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve our business goals.



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Essential Duties & Responsibilities:



* Provide thought leadership, implement, and support field services IT infrastructure needs, such as connectivity, field technology kits, and mobile devices.


* Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity and performance meets existing and future requirements.


* Provide strategic direction, guidance and execution for technology operations, services and support while monitoring performance project initiatives.


* Work with peers and business leaders to develop and implement corporate IT vision and strategy to support business objectives.


* Introduce innovative and differentiating infrastructure which enhances our overall competitive capabilities and employee productivity.


* Collaborate and build relationships across the broader domain to manage/mitigate escalations, customer impacts, reprioritization of efforts, anticipate future needs and adjust budget, organization, and staff accordingly.


* Drive and lead strategic initiatives, technology enhancements, service delivery and support market-facing programs.


* Provide leadership in planning and management operations and production support, systems and database administration, network operations and assist in supporting desktop, mobile devices.


* Manage IT resource requirements to ensure appropriate balance between tactical and strategic demands.


* Manage strategic relationships with key IT products and service partners.


* Develop and manage overall IT infrastructure and Field Services budgets, including capital budgets in consultation with CIO and IT Leadership peers.


* Reduce manual workloads and process reengineerin...