Information Technology Department Manager

Must be located in the St. Louis area or open to relocation.

As the Cloud Data Engineering Department Manager responsibilities include the following:

• Set strategic direction for the Cloud Data Engineering team’s domain related to staffing, products, support, and services
• Collaborate with Business and IT Leaders to drive out priorities for global data initiatives across multiple functional areas of the business spanning multiple programs and projects
• Manage teams performing analysis, design, development, testing, and support of data acquisition, integration, and serving applications to deliver high quality data assets and services used across the company
• Provide strategic communications and updates on Data Engineering initiatives to a broad business and IT audience
• Gain executive support across multiple disciplines to ensure Data Engineering solutions satisfy a broad spectrum of company needs
• Build, develop, and extend relationships across IT, to ensure the Data Engineering solutions align with the overall IT strategy and can be leveraged by other IT teams for maximum value
• Work with the Cloud Enablement Team to negotiate vendor agreements for technology platforms and services agreements as required
• Mentor and develop members of the Cloud Data Engineering Team to shape a world class Data Engineering organization

Required:

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• 8+ years of related IT experience
• 5+ years of success leading multiple teams within a large enterprise IT organization
• Excellent analytical skills as proven through past success creating, implementing and executing transformational strategy
• Proven leadership of large application development teams with experience in processing high transaction workloads of mission critical applications
• Knowledge and familiarity with data engineering concepts and trends
• Proven leadership, results orientation and self-motivation traits
• Excellent relationship building skills within the executive landscape
• Superb communication skills – both written and verbal designed to engage an audience across a broad range of technical expertise and/or business acumen
• Ability to envision new technologies and solutions
• High degree of collaboration skills; works well with others as it relates to generating ideas
• Demonstrated ability to quickly comprehend a broad array of initiatives to direct Project Scope, Requirements Gathering and Change Management to meet changing Business and IT objectives
• Past experience and high comfort level with presenting at the executive level
• Strong skills and experience mentoring and developing IT professionals, to ensure the team’s success and enable the employees to achieve their career goals
• Proficient knowledge of project management concepts, from planning and inception, through implementation and support
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred