Director of Information Technology Job at Sensata Technologies, Inc.
The IT Director provides guidance and vision throughout the entire technology development life cycle including requirements, development, configuration management, testing and deployment and support. Leads a team of IT resources to prioritize business needs and deliver new technology to support these emerging needs.
Experience / Qualifications
General Responsibilities
- Directs the activities related to Information Technology in the company, involving the definition, development, maintenance and operation of technology
- Advises on the selection of hardware, software and supplies
- Oversees and determines timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages
- Oversees and reports on allocation of IT budget
- Directs team and overall IT business operations to achieve company goals
- Transparently communicating throughout the IT organization and business
- Identify areas of improvements and concerns and accordingly develop action plans
Experience / Qualifications
- A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Business ethics - Ability to practice and behave consistently and effectively in areas of business practice and conflicts of interest
- Communication - Ability to communicate effectively by getting the right message across to the right people at the right time on a regular basis
- Customer Orientation - Ability to meet customers’ expectations by identifying and anticipating customers’ needs and integrating these into work; ability to develop new added value for customers and act with the customer in mind
- Result orientation - Ability to take steps personally to ensure that mutual goals and performance targets are met within the appropriate timeframe
- Teamwork - Ability to work with others and work synergistically with fellow team-members
- Planning and Organizing - Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work and schedules in all areas to meet requirements
- Problem solving - Ability to reach logical conclusions to situations by appropriately analyzing the situation. Balances the benefits, risks and consequences of actions
- Time Management - Ability to assessing your ability to manage your time, and the effectiveness of your team to reach department objectives
- Conflict management - Ability to recognize and work towards a mutually agreeable solution when confronted with conflict
- Decision making - Ability to think through possibilities and make sound decisions with appropriate degree of risk; knows when he / she has enough data to make an informed decision
- Resilience - Ability to work under pressure and prioritize
- Strategic thinking - Ability to turn strategy into action, to see the big picture and use this ability productively
- Managing objectives - Ability to decide what needs to be accomplished and design a plan to achieve the desired results
- Team Management - Ability to delegate, motivate, mentor, develop and manage team to achieve objectives. Manage external resource against SLA and operational metrics
- Budget Management - Ability to project and present annual operation Expense and Capital budget in departmental budget process
As IT Director, Engineering Excellence you will be responsible for partnering with the global, divisional, and local Engineering organizations to develop and execute an IT Strategy and Roadmap aligned with business needs and priorities. Sensata has global, divisional, and local engineering organizations that are at various levels of maturity which will benefit from product development technology standardization and simplification, achieving better productivity and efficiency from our PLM (Oracle Agile) system, more streamlined Lab management, collaboration tools, etc. In this role, you will be the key IT leader driving continuous improvement and program execution to improve the efficiency of our Engineering community. You will be the IT team leader supporting the various Engineering sites globally and serve as a single point of escalation for the broader Engineering organization and assist with the prioritization of work that is needed to run day to day operations. Sensata has deep roots in Engineering Excellence is eager to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our global Engineering talent and this will be a critical role to help achieve it.
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