Johnson Electric Regional Director Infrastructure Operations Americas 

United States, Illinois, Springfield 

31729064

Your Responsibilities Would Be:

• Develop and execute the IT strategy for the Americas region, aligning it with overall business goals and corporate IT strategies.

• Lead a team of IT professionals, including managers, engineers, and support staff, ensuring high performance and employee development.

• Participates in evaluating modern machine learning and generative AI based solution evaluations, adoption to build self-healing IT infrastructure.

• Provide thought leadership in accelerating reengineering of enterprise workloads to hybrid clouds; and developing team skills, engaging with business partners, enterprise system team leaders on benefits, ROI and risk averse migration planning.

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of server systems, networks, data centers, clouds and securities for Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT).

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, identify technology needs, evaluate solutions, implement best practices, manage project progress, and measure result against assumption.

• Manage IT budgets, vendor relationships, project planning and contracts.

• Ensure compliance with security standards, data privacy regulations, industry best practices, and audit requirements.

• Drive and support digital transformation initiatives, data analytics, automation, enterprise application.

• Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on technology trends and opportunities.

• Define performance KPIs and metrics, and conduce regular reviews to track performance.

• Monitors and evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure service delivery methods and procedures.

• Collaborates with global infrastructure teams in identifying opportunities to simplify IT Service management through continuous improvement initiatives

Our Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred).

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in IT leadership roles.

• Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale IT projects and teams, particularly infrastructure transformation migrating and modernizing infrastructure with cloud.

• Strong understanding of infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strategic thinker with the ability to drive innovation and change.

What We offer:

JE offers talented employee’s exceptional opportunities to learn and grow professionally with rewarding careers. We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, prescription plan, vision, disability coverage, life insurance coverage, 401K match, and holiday/vacation benefits.