Network Engineering Manager

O'Reilly Auto Parts; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Paid time off

Stock Purchase Plan

401k with employer contributions

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Tuition educational assistance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

O'Reilly Auto Parts seeks a Manager of Network Engineering to direct development and maintenance of IT platforms, network infrastructure, and processes. Lead high-performing teams delivering reliable, secure, scalable solutions while aligning with organizational objectives.

You will oversee day-to-day operations, budgeting, and cross-functional collaboration to drive process improvements and compliance across the IT landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience translating complex business needs into IT architecture.
• Ability to define standards and roadmaps for enterprise IT.
• Strong focus on security, compliance, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to meet business needs.
• Define architectural standards for technology services and components.
• Document current and target processes and migration steps.
• Develop strategic architecture plans with prioritized data features.
• Gather complex business requirements and translate to user goals.
• Communicate actions to implement strategy and motivate teams.
• Develop business cases to justify investments and ROI.
• Lead in detecting security incidents and remediate gaps.
• Manage performance of a large, diverse team and set objectives.
• Plan targeted development for team members and provide coaching.
• Develop and deliver budget plans with senior input.

Skills

Enterprise readiness

Business requirements

Gap analysis

Architectures design

Data management

Policies & governance

Cloud infrastructure

Security & compliance

Leadership

Communication

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cloud platforms

Security tools

Job description

Job Summary The Manager Network Engineering directs the development and ongoing maintenance of critical IT platforms, processes, and network infrastructure. Leads high performing teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions. Responsible for overseeing day to day operations, resource allocation, project execution, and performance management. Contributes to strategic IT decisions that align capabilities with long term organizational objectives. Collaborates closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define standards, manage budgets, and drive process improvement. Ensures compliance, security, and regulatory requirements are met. Fosters a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and accountability within the team.

Job Summary The Manager Network Engineering directs the development and ongoing maintenance of critical IT platforms, processes, and network infrastructure. Leads high performing teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions. Responsible for overseeing day to day operations, resource allocation, project execution, and performance management. Contributes to strategic IT decisions that align capabilities with long term organizational objectives. Collaborates closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define standards, manage budgets, and drive process improvement. Ensures compliance, security, and regulatory requirements are met. Fosters a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and accountability within the team.

Responsibilities And Duties

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met.
• Lead definition of architectural standards for all technology services and components (applications, data, integration, technology, security, business). Present business and IT leaders with signature-ready recommendations for adjusting policies and projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalize on relevant digital disruptions.
• Document the most complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.
• Develop a strategic architecture plan, ensuring that data features are prioritized appropriately, estimates are reliable, benefits can be realized, and design activities are proactively monitored and tracked to meet planned time frames and the overall architecture plan.
• Elicit the most-complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• Lead in detecting and analyzing security incidents, including attacks, breaches, and identified vulnerabilities, and remediate any security gaps in line with the security incident management procedure.
• Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.
• Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.

Skills

Required:

• Conduct an enterprise readiness assessment to determine the organization's readiness for change.
• Express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach.
• Conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.
• Design architectures, incorporating system/ service requirements.
• Acquire, organize, protect and process data in order to fulfill business objectives.
• Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Develop and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization.
• Monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies and work objectives.
• Determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.
• Proficiently navigate and manage cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual machines, networks, storage, and services.
• Understand, deploy, and manage cloud-based infrastructure and services.
• Understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.
• Operates as a recognized expert to maintain system/service and information security, integrity, compliance and continuity.
• Applies comprehensive knowledge / skill, acts with independence and provides guidance and training to others.
• Adopt solutions to automate and manage multiple applications and functions within an organization.

Preferred

Education: Master's Degree or Equivalent Level

Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (10 years to 15 years)

Managerial Experience: Experience of planning, managing and organizing resources within short / medium timescales within the overall policy framework. (6 years to 10 years)

O’Reilly Auto Parts has a proven track record of growth and stability. O’Reilly is full of successful career stories and believes in a strong promote-from-within philosophy, encouraging you to grow your career along with the organization.

Total Compensation Package

• Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
• Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
• Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
• Opportunities for Career Growth

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