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REQ14491 Director, IT Engineering (Open)Position SummaryThe Head of IT Engineering is responsible for the research, development, implementation, and oversight of engineering strategies across the Information Technology organization. The Head of IT Engineering continuously analyses technologies and engineering practices and provides leadership and technical direction to align Information Technology (IT) with the strategic visions of the company.The Head of IT Engineering reports to the Vice President of Digital Transformation.Primary ResponsibilitiesUnderstand and anticipate the strategic direction of the global IT organizationStandardize and oversee application and platform design across IT, including architecture, process, testing, and release strategiesSpearhead technical transformation initiatives to increase IT agility and improve engineering practicesCollaborate with external teams to improve enable software development agilityWork with internal teams and vendors to evaluate best return on investment for new tools and technologiesLead engineering groups in developing applications, tools, processes, and standards for use by IT teamsKey Performance IndicatorsContinuous implementation and standardization of effective modern engineering strategies and architecturesIncrease the efficiency of technology teams and reduce manual overhead in maintenance and operations via automation and process improvementsCoach and mentor teams and individuals on technology adoption, best practices, and skillset buildingContinually learn, grow, and assess industry leading technologies and practices for use within ITSkills / Competencies:Expertise in architecture and management of decoupled microservice development, delivery, and API ecosystems following domain-driven designExpertise in Agile development and developing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems and practices for application development, 12-Factor Application DevelopmentExpertise in architecting with Everything-as-Code/GitOps practices and “eventual consistency” canary and blue/green development and release engineering patternsStrong knowledge in infrastructure components such including operating systems, systems networking, private cloud development and operations, and security operationsExperience leading development and technical operational teams, and transformation of enterprise technology teams, practices, and monolithic system architectureExperience leading teams to design and maintain systems with Kubernetes, Docker/LXC, Terraform, Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, Ansible, Packer, Chef, GNU/Linux, Windows, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios/Icinga, Gitlab-CI/Jenkins