Chief Technology Officer

Old National Bank; Lake Elmo (MN); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Old National Bank in Minnesota seeks a Chief Technology Officer to lead technology strategy, cloud migration, and enterprise transformation. You will guide infrastructure modernization across on‑prem and AWS, establish FinOps practices, and drive resilient, secure, cost‑optimized technologies to empower the technology team.

You will mentor directors and managers, partner with Risk, Security and the business, and steward architecture standards, ITIL‑driven processes, and DevOps workflows to

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Ten+ years of experience in business or information solutions, technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management.
• Proven success delivering large-scale cloud-native migration, resiliency/DR programs, and ITSM modernization.
• Familiarity with information management practices, SDLC, IT services management, ITIL frameworks.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, including team leadership and coordination.

Responsibilities

• Own the Infrastructure transformation vision and multiyear roadmap aligned to business strategy, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite; translate strategy into OKRs and measurable outcomes.
• Lead cloud migration at scale (AWS as primary) including landing zone architecture, identity, network connectivity, workload placement, and application rationalization; establish FinOps practices for cloud cost governance and optimization.
• Engineer resiliency by design: set enterprise RTO/RPO targets, drive active‑active/DR patterns, chaos testing, backup/restore standards, and cyber‑resilience with CISO; across on‑prem and cloud estates.
• Modernize End‑User Computing to improve productivity, security (Zero Trust), and supportability; accelerate self‑service and automation.
• Advance ITSM maturity (ITIL 4): streamline incident, problem, change, request, and asset practices; implement SRE/observability, reduce MTTR, and lower change failure rate through DevOps workflows.
• Establish platform engineering and automation: IaC, CI/CD for infrastructure, and golden patterns for repeatable deployments across environments.
• Optimize infrastructure financials: transparency for TCO and unit economics; manage budgets, forecast cloud/on‑prem spend, drive savings via consolidation and FinOps guardrails.
• Strengthen vendor/third‑party performance management; enforce SLAs, risk controls, and exit strategies; align with procurement and vendor risk.
• Build trusted stakeholder relationships across Technology, Risk, Security, and the business; prioritize initiatives delivering time‑to‑value and customer experience improvements.
• Govern architecture and standards: partner with enterprise architects to maintain reference architectures and technical debt remediation plans.
• Develop high‑performing teams: mentor leaders and engineers; foster reliability, automation, learning and accountability.

Skills

Transformational Change

Resiliency & Risk Management

Strategic Planning

Communication

Collaboration

Drive & Execution

Client Leadership

Education

Master's or Bachelor's degree in business / computer science / CE / EE / systems analysis

10+ years of experience across IT disciplines

Tools

AWS

FinOps

ITIL

IaC

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

Responsibilities

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a key role within the technology team, reporting directly to the CIO. This position is responsible for technology strategy, enterprise transformation, implementation, deployment, and operation of mission‑critical infrastructure. The CTO accelerates cloud migration, engineers resiliency by design across on‑prem and cloud estates, and provisions fit‑for‑purpose, secure, and cost‑optimized technologies to enable the technology team to deliver exceptional service and value. The position will lead various Directors/Managers, assisting in developing systems to improve our technology infrastructure. The CTO also serves as a member of several committees and collaborates with organizational partners to achieve organizational objectives.

• Own the Infrastructure transformation vision and multiyear roadmap aligned to business strategy, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite; translate strategy into clear OKRs and measurable outcomes.
• Lead cloud migration at scale (AWS as primary) including landing zone architecture, identity, network connectivity, workload placement, and application rationalization; establish FinOps practices for cloud cost governance and optimization.
• Engineer resiliency by design: set enterprise RTO/RPO targets, drive active‑active/DR patterns, chaos testing, backup/restore standards, and cyber‑resilience (in partnership with the CISO) across on‑prem and cloud estates.
• Modernize End‑User Computing (e.g., Microsoft 365, endpoint management/Intune, VDI/DaaS) to improve productivity, security (Zero Trust), and supportability; accelerate self‑service and automation.
• Advance ITSM maturity (ITIL 4): streamline incident, problem, change, request, and asset practices; implement SRE/observability, reduce MTTR, and lower change failure rate through DevOps‑aligned workflows.
• Establish platform engineering and automation: standardize infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD for infrastructure, and golden patterns for repeatable deployments across environments.
• Optimize infrastructure financials: create transparency for TCO and unit economics; manage budgets, forecast cloud/on‑prem spend, and drive savings via consolidation, modernization, and FinOps guardrails.
• Strengthen vendor/third‑party performance management for data center operations, network services, and managed support; enforce SLAs, risk controls, and exit strategies; align with procurement and vendor risk.
• Build trusted stakeholder relationships across Technology, Risk, Security, and the business; prioritize initiatives that deliver time‑to‑value, efficiency, and customer experience improvements.
• Govern architecture and standards: partner with enterprise architects to maintain reference architectures, technology lifecycles, and technical debt remediation plans.
• Develop high‑performing teams: mentor leaders and engineers; cultivate a culture of reliability, automation, learning, and accountability; represent Old National Bank at external forums.

Key Competencies:

• Transformational Change & Strategy Execution – Guides multiyear modernization; aligns technology outcomes to business value.
• Resiliency & Risk Management – Builds robust architectures, balances innovation with regulatory and operational risk.
• Strategic Planning – Analyzes current and future business strategies against technology capabilities; partners with technology partners and service providers to identify, design, and evaluate product offerings to align to future demand.
• Communication – Applies active listening skills and skillful use of questions to understand the situation, needs and desired outcomes. Effectively shares information and ideas, displaying self‑awareness and self‑management. Understands who will be affected by an issue or change and ensures all stakeholders and kept informed.
• Collaboration – Actively seeks, develops and maintains trusted relationships with others to achieve business goals and objectives. Proactively shares knowledge information, ideas and suggestions to accomplish mutual goals.
• Drive and Execution – Actively seeks ways to improve current methods, systems, processes and procedures. Focuses on ways to succeed and monitors and reviews progress against performance expectations. Committed to achieving established goals, overcoming obstacles, and continuously learning.
• Client Leadership – Asks effective questions to understand and clarify the client's needs and/or to gain information relevant to the solution, response or action required to ensure the client is at the forefront of everything they do. Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, as well as excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in some combination of the following disciplines: business or information solutions, technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management.
• Demonstrated success delivering large‑scale cloud‑native migration, resiliency/DR programs, and ITSM modernization.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and ITIL frameworks.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, including team leadership and work organization/coordination.

Old National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer focused on fostering an inclusive workplace and committed to hiring a workforce comprised of diverse backgrounds, cultures and thinking styles.

As such, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.