Remote IT Director: Growth, Security & Strategy

SmartTech Contracting LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartTech Contracting LLC is seeking an IT Director to lead the IT function as the company scales a fully remote national workforce. You will set IT strategy, build the internal team, manage MSP relationships, and drive security, compliance, and platform modernization across the organization.

This leadership role reports to the President and collaborates with the VP of Engineering and Business Management Office to shape the technology roadmap, budget, and policies.

Responsibilities

• Translate company objectives into the annual IT plan and delegate IT leads and partners.
• Own STC’s IT strategy and multiyear roadmap tied to growth targets.
• Define the IT operating model for growth stages and in‑house transitions.
• Make build/buy/stop decisions based on value, cost, risk and capacity.
• Own the IT budget, licensing and cloud spend; report costs clearly.
• Lead change management and measure adoption across departments.
• Hire, coach and lead the initial IT team and plan hires.
• Manage and develop IT leads and later managers; ensure succession.
• Lead recruiting and headcount planning to prevent single points of failure.
• Identify and remove roadblocks for IT team and partners.
• Maintain a workforce plan growing the team as the company scales.
• Own MSP relationship; define SLAs and handoffs; move services in‑house.
• Engage interim specialists for defined scopes with clear handoffs.
• Build a remote team culture of service and continuous improvement.
• Own Azure tenant and landing zone with production/test/dev separation.
• Establish a paved road from prototype to production with CI/CD and IaC.
• Govern the application portfolio with defined owners and readiness.
• Own the reliability of production systems and recovery testing.
• Provide hosting, environments and controls for client‑facing software.
• Own Microsoft 365 information architecture and retention.
• Support SPI and the AI Program Manager; IT provides secure stack.
• Set up AI platform foundations: licensing, accounts, access, telemetry.
• Own security and data-governance guardrails for AI use.
• Unblock staff by removing friction for access and approvals.
• Lead business systems integration with ERP, scheduling, reporting.

Job description

SmartTech Contracting LLC is seeking an IT Director to lead the IT function as the company scales a fully remote national workforce. You will set IT strategy, build the internal team, manage MSP relationships, and drive security, compliance, and platform modernization across the organization.

This leadership role reports to the President and collaborates with the VP of Engineering and Business Management Office to shape the technology roadmap, budget, and policies.