Vice President of Technology Solutions

We have an immediate need for a Director of Technology Solutions to assist in guiding the long-range direction of CES’s internal IT (information technology) groups and external IT-based offerings.

One of the major roles of this position is to provide leadership that is based on a culture of collaboration, fostering a sense of ownership and quality of service.

One of the major goals of this role is to educate and empower the team leads in maximizing their skill sets and competencies through teamwork. Identifying opportunities for a team leads to consistently working together toward overall company goal of building more innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Evaluate current and planned technology initiatives to facilitate the development of an overall design and direction of CES’s technology infrastructure, including hardware, software and cloud-based resources in a technology agnostic manner. Work with leaders of each business line and internal IT groups to ensure that improvements made are in line with company-wide priorities and planned direction.
2. Assist President and leadership team in determining allocation of financial resources and personnel to company IT initiatives. Work with leaders of each business line and internal IT group to determine expected costs and benefits of major IT projects, as a basis for resource allocation decisions.
3. Work with business lines considering (or already using) third-party IT resources to help decide what to outsource and when. Develop criteria to guide business lines in making future outsourcing decisions.
4. Work with business lines and IT infrastructure team to implement data governance; data storage, archiving, and data duplication policies.Help guide company toward policies that satisfy legal and contractual needs, allow business lines to perform their work, and minimize unnecessary use of hardware and infrastructure personnel time.
5. Work with IT groups to improve and standardize software development and change management processes across the company. Goals for our software include increased mobile-friendly options for our web-accessible offerings, and improved methods of data exchange among internal systems, to reduce duplication of data. Process goals include moving toward common tooling, such as source control and request tracking, and similar development workflows. Establish performance metrics/ guidelines to ensure scalability and stability.
6. Collaborate with VP of IT Infrastructure and legal team on overall data security and technical audit process requirements to ensure compliance with company standards and best practice.
7. Working with the IT team leads to develop standards for internal system testing and best practices for evaluating and ensuring ongoing system health and robustness. Develop and maintain sign off criteria for new major products or releases to the market.

Requirements

The position will report to the President of Customized Energy Solutions and work closely on direction and priorities with the company’s leadership team. The following qualifications are pertinent to this position:

MUST HAVE:

• 15+ years overall IT experience in designing and delivering complex software development projects on time and within budget constraints
• 5+ years of working with Big Data such as data warehouse development experience, working with a dimensional data model, time-series data, and large databases
• Good understanding of the primary characteristics of hardware, software, cloud-based IT systems\architecture and languages used in the IT industry today
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills when discussing technology both with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-starter and capable of working in a diverse team environment
• Proficient in project management principles and practices.
• Four-year technical degree

ADDITIONAL DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Application development experience using /C#/SQL Server/ Python/ JavaScript and other Windows-based tools
• Experience with best practices in collaboration with international decentralized development teams.
• Strong Understanding of SPA and REST architecture with additional knowledge in data streaming and edge processing.
• Advanced degree or qualification related to IT or to the energy industry
• Knowledge of software solutions used in the electric utility industry
• Experience with Corporate applications of AI