Director of Cloud Engineering and Strategy

Prestigious Enterprise Company is currently seeking a Director of Cloud Engineering and Strategy. Candidate will advise the IT function and business stakeholders on matters of cloud strategy, governance, capabilities to ensure a clearly defined approach, governance and achieves optimal efficiencies related to operational activities and risk.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the actions of cloud transformation to ensure the alignment of mission, strategy, and processes to the IT strategy using a variety of models
• Expands the company's use of cloud as a strategic enabler of goals and objectives to achieve operational efficiencies that would otherwise be unattainable
• Develops policies, standards and guidelines to direct the selection, development, implementation and use of cloud platforms within the organization
• Integrates strategies into the cloud strategy to ensure directional alignment and to promote the technological advancement
• Establishes directives to document current (as-is) cloud footprint and defines future state destination architecture and associated roadmaps to drive innovation and prevent obsolescence
• Establishes and leads governance processes that work in synergy with business and IT processes to ensure compliance to cloud standards, destination, and roadmaps
• Defines and establishes IT capabilities required to achieve strategy and gain value through cloud adoption.
• Facilitates process for researching and selecting enabling technologies to proactively address business demands and enables co-creation for our business
• Incorporates enabling technologies into cloud standards to ensure new technologies are appropriately supported before, during, and after launch
• Establishes and leads a team to provide solution conceptual design to projects based on cloud standards, guidelines, and usage patterns ensuring security, scalability and supportability
• Manages relationships with strategic partners to facilitate the identification of new and innovative ways to deliver business outcomes with cloud technology

Qualifications:

• 10-12 years of progressive leadership experience within IT
• 10+ years of experience with public cloud providers
• Bachelors degree in technical field, Masters Degree preferred
• Proven portfolio leading cloud transformations from business strategy to execution
• Experience leading in a matrixed environment with multiple executive stakeholders