Director, Technology - VSP Vision

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in the United States seeks a senior leader to set the direction for strategic business and technology challenges across enterprise infrastructure, architecture, and related processes.

You will align with enterprise strategies, coach teams, manage executives, and drive multi-year technology programs and budgets, delivering cohesive implementations and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 2 additional years of experience related to functional area.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for strategic business and technology challenges.
• Set the direction in alignment with enterprise and GTS strategies for technical infrastructure, architecture, application systems, and/or related business processes within technical functional area, and ensure proper functioning, and cohesive implementation as necessary across teams.
• Be recognized as a strategic resource within the company for complex problem solving for business, and technology issues, and direction setting, utilizing expert-level technical knowledge, internal network, external network, and other resources.
• Manage relationships with peers, executive stakeholders, and team members.
• Accomplish planning for year, multi-year, and program-level initiatives, including integrated strategic technology planning with business stakeholders.
• Tactical orientation to prepare, deliver, and utilize technical vision, strategy, and roadmap throughout enterprise.
• Engage team, peers, business stakeholders, and industry experts in innovative dialogue to further vision, and innovation.
• Drive and adopt strategic or transformation change within area of functional responsibility and the business.
• Identify and lead industry best practices in areas of technical functional expertise.
• Partake in Global Technology Solutions enterprise-level planning as necessary and participate in strategy development in area of functional (technical) expertise, creating detailed functional level planning as necessary, and direction for responsible areas.
• Actively manage risk at a functional and business level
• Monitor performance of direct reports, provide prompt and objective coaching and counseling; conduct performance reviews and recommend salary increases
• Identify and prioritize training needs that address the department/Division's Goals and business support needs
• Assure effective communications are maintained across technical functional areas and externally; where appropriate involve management, and employees in plans, and keep up to date on progress towards meeting goals
• Prepare KJAs for direct reports that tie to their job descriptions and goals. Monitor performance of direct reports in meeting their KJAs; provide prompt and objective coaching in accomplishing goals and in job performance
• Participate in the development of the department's budget; monitor expenses to ensure department costs are within established levels
• Monitor turnover, productivity, and overall performance to ensure adequate staffing and performance that meet functional area standards and needs

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience

Job description

Set the direction for strategic business and technology challenges

Set the direction in alignment with enterprise and GTS strategies for technical infrastructure, architecture, application systems, and/or related business processes within technical functional area, and ensure proper functioning, and cohesive implementation as necessary across teams

Be recognized as a strategic resource within the company for complex problem solving for business, and technology issues, and direction setting, utilizing expert-level technical knowledge, internal network, external network, and other resources

Manage relationships with peers, executive stakeholders, and team members

Accomplish planning for year, multi-year, and program-level initiatives, including integrated strategic technology planning with business stakeholders

Tactical orientation to prepare, deliver, and utilize technical vision, strategy, and roadmap throughout enterprise

Engage team, peers, business stakeholders, and industry experts in innovative dialogue to further vision, and innovation

Drive and adopt strategic or transformation change within area of functional responsibility and the business

Identify and lead industry best practices in areas of technical functional expertise

Partake in Global Technology Solutions enterprise-level planning as necessary and participate in strategy development in area of functional (technical) expertise, creating detailed functional level planning as necessary, and direction for responsible areas

Actively manage risk at a functional and business level

Monitor performance of direct reports, provide prompt and objective coaching and counseling; conduct performance reviews and recommend salary increases

Identify and prioritize training needs that address the department/Division's Goals and business support needs

Assure effective communications are maintained across technical functional areas and externally; where appropriate involve management, and employees in plans, and keep up to date on progress towards meeting goals

Prepare KJAs for direct reports that tie to their job descriptions and goals. Monitor performance of direct reports in meeting their KJAs; provide prompt and objective coaching in accomplishing goals and in job performance

Participate in the development of the department's budget; monitor expenses to ensure department costs are within established levels

Monitor turnover, productivity, and overall performance to ensure adequate staffing and performance that meet functional area standards and needs

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience; Minimum of 2 additional years of experience related to functional area