IT Director - Application Development

The Director of Vehicle Services will be responsible for the portfolio of solutions that manage, support and supply critical vehicle data to applications throughout Enterprise and our partners, operational support for current state platforms, development and building of the future state platforms, and consulting with business and product leaders to define and execute efforts that support the growth of the business.  This role will leverage a combination of strategic, operational, and analytical experience to define and lead the strategic transformation of the Vehicle Services platforms through modernization of the solutions and migration to the cloud.  Additionally, you will be responsible for leading the technology implementation for critical initiatives, and owning the execution of the deployment and adoption of the modernized solutions. Your advice will be based on strong technical skills derived from experience developing, governing, and executing in a large-scale IT environment. As someone with keen problem-solving abilities, you can work equally well with business leaders to execute a strategy and technical teams to create an execution plan. As the leader in this area, you will be responsible for building strong relationships and identifying growth opportunities across short, medium, and long-term horizons.  

This role requires innovative leadership and support of current team members as well as managing 3rd party relationships, contractors, and vendors. The success of this role involves driving results through engagement with and balancing the needs of multiple global business stakeholders and close architecture principles, guidelines, standards, and best practices.  

This individual will have a track record of strong leadership in a large IT organization, and experience deploying and supporting global, highly available, business critical capabilities in a cloud-based and on-premise environment. As a people manager and leader, this individual must possess the willingness to diversify skills and champion new innovations and solutions while fostering a culture of speed, agility, collaboration, and operational excellence. 

As an IT leader, this individual must:  

• Demonstrate the ability to consult, influence and establish authentic connections to partner with Enterprise leaders (and third-party partners as required) in supporting and executing tech strategies.  
• Demonstrate a refined leadership presence and communication skills to simplify complex subjects and independently navigate across the leadership of the IT and business organization. 
• Strong ability to set, implement and communicate short-term and long-term strategic objectives that align to company strategies. 
• Take calculated risks, lead high-profile efforts, own mistakes, and embrace failures as teaching moments for self and others. 
• Encourage and energize others to step out of comfort zones, improving their efficacy to develop and implement innovative solutions. 
• Demonstrate a principled leadership style and openly encourage an environment that promotes and improves our culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, ethics and integrity to achieve operational excellence. 
• Possess exceptional customer service and communication skills to effectively interact with business leaders, other IT teams within Enterprise and external partners.

Core Responsibilities: 

• Accountable to modernize the Vehicle Services platform and migrate all solutions to a cloud-based hosting environment.
• Responsible to drive the operation, development, evolution, and implementation of the Vehicle Service portfolio in support of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives
• Continually invest in relationship and personal growth to become a trusted partner for Senior business leadership, Product, and IT leadership leading to opportunities for expansion of responsibilities. 
• Identify and rationalize the intersection of multiple multi-year strategic initiatives which requires significant partnership and alignment with the functional leaders of each of the teams that support daily operations (Product Management, Operations, Technology, Data). 
• Partner cross functionally and align the IT Officers across the organization to ensure a balanced posture of speedy progress and risk to business-critical systems. 
• Partner with key stakeholders to formulate a comprehensive technology plan that is consistent with the overall business objectives and budgetary considerations. 
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to develop new application policies and standards. 
• Lead career development and succession management efforts to ensure retention, motivation, and engagement of current and future employees, with a focus on building a diverse and resilient organization. 
• Actively coach and inspire your team with timely and actionable feedback. 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans