We are assisting our client in the hiring for a new role: VP, IT & Infrastructure. Our client provides cloud-based collection software solutions for banks, credit unions, and fintechs to collect and manage their portfolios.
Specifically, they provide the technology and data necessary to increase collections efficiency, provide a digital consumer experience, reduce staff costs, anticipate delinquencies, and provide insight into future credit decisions.
Position requires that you’re local to Malvern, PA.
Scope of Responsibility
- The production SaaS platform: The Azure-hosted environment that their customers depend on. This includes reliability, performance, scaling, observability, cost, and the customer‑data‑center connections that keep regulated financial institutions integrated.
- The product’s infrastructure surface: The cloud architecture decisions that shape what the product engineering and data teams can build. This includes networking, identity, secrets, environments, and deployment paths.
- The internal company environment: The Microsoft 365 estate, Intune‑managed devices, SharePoint and Teams, Power Platform automation, and the Copilot agents that their employees use to do their jobs.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team that operates the production and internal Azure environment — App Services, Container Apps, Azure SQL, Entra ID, Application Gateway, and the networking layer that fronts the platform.
- Own reliability, performance, and capacity — meet customer commitments, and run the monitoring, alerting, incident‑response, and postmortem practice behind them.
- Manage customer‑data‑center connectivity — VPN tunnels, Azure Virtual WAN, and firewall posture, with playbooks that make new customer turn‑ups fast and predictable.
- Lead the agentic operations agenda — Copilot in Azure, AI‑driven monitoring and remediation, and automated runbooks that take recurring work (database setup, VPN config, certificate and secret rotation, IP whitelisting) off people’s plates.
- Own the cost line — manage the Azure footprint’s operating cost, remove waste without hurting availability or performance, and bring a defensible cost‑to‑serve view to the committee quarterly.
- Run the corporate Microsoft 365 estate — SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Entra ID & Intune.
- Own end‑user support and IT operations — set the bar for response time and experience.
- Lead the Power Platform and internal automation function — Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, governed — and treat recurring manual work as a defect to eliminate.
- Lead the team through the agentic transition — identify the work an agent can do, automate it, free people for higher‑leverage work, and be honest enough to bring them along.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in cloud, IT, or infrastructure operations with hands‑on ownership of a production cloud environment.
- Production cloud at scale: a customer‑facing SaaS environment on Azure (or comparable cloud) where uptime and performance were contractually committed and measured. Regulated industry experience is a bonus.
- Owned or directly overseen the corporate Microsoft 365 estate, device management, identity, and end‑user support as a primary function.
- Experience leading teams.
- Deep, current Azure expertise: App Services, Function Apps, Container Apps, Azure SQL, Entra ID, Application Gateway, networking, and the monitoring stack — leveling up the team.
- Infrastructure‑as‑code as muscle memory: Bicep, ARM, or Terraform.
- Microsoft 365 and the digital workplace: SharePoint, Teams, Intune, Autopilot, Entra, Purview — opinionated on Power Platform governance and Copilot agents.
- Networking and security fundamentals: VPN, VWAN, segmentation, identity, secrets, certificates — credible in an architecture review.