Director of Information Technology
Lane Transit District
- Eugene, OR
- $119,750-147,275 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide overall IT leadership.
- Develop departmental budget and manage expenditures.
- Manage, motivate and build relationships with IT staff, including professional development.
- Manage hardware and software vendor relationships.
- Analyze business requirements of all departments to determine technology needs.
- Establish mission-related priorities.
- Participate as a member of the senior leadership team.
- Lead efforts to improve IT processes.
- Manage department contracts.
- Manage corporate licensing (Microsoft, VMware, etc.).
- Coordinate and lead projects to completion.
- Maintains primary responsibility for setting innovation and technology strategy for the District.
- Act as a visionary for business objectives both internally and externally. Lead a strategic ideation process to identify major focus areas to guide our efforts and investments, ensuring that the innovation delivers high value projects of strategic importance to LTD.
- Participate in the company's strategic planning process to define the vision and future state of innovation at the District.
- Develop and implement processes and tools to scan the external environment for opportunities.
- Proactively identify new and promising ideas, technologies and methodologies that allow us to transform our operations in alignment with our strategy.
- Develop and manage innovation idea generation so that LTD can access the best ideas possible to address our most important strategic imperatives while fully engaging our employees.
- Implement assessment processes and technologies that ensure that idea evaluation is comprehensive and data-driven, allowing for rapid decision making and ensuring that the best opportunities are pursued.
- Develop and implement new department processes and optimize existing processes to maximize value delivery from the IT system.
- Lead high impact, cross-functional innovation pilot and project teams of strategic importance.
- Maintain primary responsibility for setting innovation and technology strategy for the District.
- VMware ESXi/Horizon View (highly virtualized organization)
- NetApp storage
- Juniper/HP/CradlePoint networking and switching
- CommVault
- Microsoft Server environment
- Microsoft IIS, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, SCOM, SCCM, Skype for Business
- Management of SSL certificates
- Aruba wireless
- Active Directory management, including DNS and DHCP
- Network topologies including fiber connected locations
- VoIP phone systems
- Theories, principles and practices of information systems, including advanced technology, systems, integration, state-of-the-art hardware and software systems.
- Applicable local, state and federal laws, rules and regulations governing information systems within a public agency environment.
- Long-range information systems strategic planning methodology and techniques.
- Modern management theory.
- Project management principles and application.
- Cloud strategy, architecture and technology adoption.
- Plan, organize and direct the work of information systems functions.
- Analyze situations, identify problems, implement solutions and evaluate outcomes.
- Oversee and manage large-scale projects serving a diverse group of stakeholders across multiple business units.
- Understand, interpret and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts, budgets and labor/management agreements.
- Prepare comprehensive reports and correspondence.
- Interact professionally with various levels of employees, the Board of Directors and outside representatives.
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Determine strategies to achieve goals.
- Plan financial and staffing needs.
- Make financial decisions within a budget.
- Apply LTD procurement procedures and contract administration.
- Assess emerging technologies and innovations and evaluate their application to solving District goals.
- VoIP as a service (VaaS) and unified messaging
- Migration to a cloud first posture including identity management and security
- Microsoft cloud services including Azure, Intune, M365 suite administration and migration
- Microsoft SQL and data warehousing
- Virtualized environments using VMware architectures and SAN storage arrays
- Remote workforce deployments and support
- Metro area networks that include large fiber plants and interagency agreements
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business or a closely related field from a recognized college or university.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- At least five (5) years of IT Management experience.
- At least ten (10) years of total IT experience, including infrastructure management, supervision of a technical staff, architecture, security/compliance, strategic planning and budgetary responsibility.