Senior Manager of Information Technology

 

Main characteristics

Location

Troy, Michigan

Company

LER TechForce

Industry

Management

Job summary

Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment, and your voice is heard? We have an Senior Manager of Information Technology to work in Metro Detroit. This role will require the person to work a hybrid schedule in Troy. We are really looking for a Senior Manager of Information Technology that has automotive and manufacturing experience. Other candidates from outside of those areas will not be considered.

Who we are:

For over 20 years LER has been working with customers across North America to meet their engineering resource challenges.

Learn more about us

The Senior Manager of Information Technology Manager will oversee the information technology infrastructure, applications, security, compliance, and support of , including Michigan, Ohio, and Mexico Operations. Provide technology vision, enables innovation, and understands the IT trends that can create business value. Oversee development, deployment and performance of enterprise standards and technology architecture, technology evaluation and transfer, and the IT security, cybersecurity, and compliance across North America. Manages strategic vendor and partner relationships. Extensive knowledge of IT, as well as possessing a background in general management and financial management.

Major Duties/Responsibilities

Top duties or activities in a given year. Not all tasks/steps performed are listed.

1. Creating, implementation and maintaining long term vision of entire IT department. Including but not limited to:

Generates and executes long term IT business plan that aligns with corporate and local leaderships long term vision.

Establishing and maintaining key performance indicators to drive the business.

Responsible for developing, maintaining, and reporting entire IT SG&A budget, including capex and expense spending.

Oversee and deploy ISO27001:2002 and VDA-TISAX standards

2. Infrastructure:

Determines long-term enterprise-wide information technology needs from hardware and network requirements and develops overall strategy for systems to manage and protect data at company.

3. Service Management:

Maintaining and updating the companies IT services

Ensures monitoring and testing of business continuance procedures, ensures response to system failures, and is proactive in building processes to minimize/eliminate downtime.

4. IT Security:

Responsible for the evaluation, design, implementation and testing of latest risk management technology to protect company.

Understanding of latest security, training and evaluation and management of different vendors

Responsible for IAM and ensures user authorization on system and software used by company.

Emphasized focus on cybersecurity infrastructure.

5. Technical support

Responsible for help desk, ensuring IT tickets are responded to and closed in timely manner

6. Training and development of IT team and NSNA Employees:

Maximizes the effectiveness of the overall team by creating a training and development plan on latest industry technologies for all employees.

Develop and implement an training plan to support end users on IT policies, security and tech support.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree required. Computer Science or Engineering preferred

Master's Degree in Information Systems/Management preferred

Network CCNA or equivalent preferred

Systems MCSE or equivalent preferred

CompTIA Security+ Certification preferred

Minimum 7 years of strong management skills and ability to lead cross-functional teams or working with multiple teams

Minimum of 10 years of IT and business/industry work experience, including network and systems design and deployment, systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations

Cloud Architecture and Engineering preferred; Virtual Private Cloud experience beneficial

Strong understanding of contractual terms and experience in contractual processes (i.e. MSA, RFP, SOW)

Demonstrated ability to manage vendors and follow SLAs

Proven background of developing technical resources

Strong research and analytical skills and full technical knowledge of all phases of systems analysis

Project management skills; ability to lead multiple concurrent projects using standard project methodology

IT financial forecasting and management experience

Clear understanding and direction with J-SOX compliance requirements

Experience with automotive supplier environment and requirements preferred

Experience demonstrating effective leadership, directly or in-directly, for multi- disciplinary teams is required.

5+ years' experience in automotive industry preferred

Technical Leadership : Includes being the subject matter expert in this field. Ability to motivate the organization, enforce product technical excellence and sponsor innovation among the team.

Observation, understanding, and execution of applicable company ISO/TS/IATF certification standards related to the role and impact on the overall organization.

What you'll get:

Healthcare (Medical/Dental/Vision)

401(k) Program w/ company match

Strong Bonus

Life Insurance and Disability

Paid Holidays

Vacation Time

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