Director, IT Infrastructure

Director, Infrastructure

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview: World Kinect is seeking a versatile senior IT people leader with a sound technical background to lead global Infrastructure and Cloud teams. This role is pivotal in driving our technology strategy, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a culture of innovation with a security and customer mindset. Talent and leadership are at the heart of the CIO organization, with a focus on empowering self-driven teams to achieve excellence by building secure, high-quality, and sustainable products with efficiency. We foster a customer-centric culture where everyone takes pride in and ownership of their work. As a globally organization, you will need to lead and manage teams with a strong focus on leadership, strategy, and collaboration. This role requires you to stay close to your teams and the work, recognizing and removing barriers to support team success. Our highly collaborative culture embraces working in and across teams, therefore, the need to impact and influence throughout the organization will allow you to learn from and share with others. As a leader, your ability to listen, learn, and leverage will be key to your and your team’s development and growth. If you are a high-energy, self-driven technology leader that loves to solve complex problems creatively, thrives when challenged, is a bar raiser, and enjoys working in a transparent and collaborative environment where team success comes before individual success, this is the right place for you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and coach leaders, program managers, engineers, and architects.
• Build and maintain high-performance teams in a distributed work environment.
• Attract and retain talent and the ability to form and develop teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation, excellence, and efficiency to attract and retain top talent.
• Shape and drive the global strategy for infrastructure and cloud technologies.
• Provide clarity of purpose for their team and articulate a clear vision and strategy.
• Ensure alignment with organizational goals and core principles.
• Drive and manage budgets, resources, programs, and initiatives that help achieve our OKRs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and senior leaders using both technical and non-technical language.
• Facilitate effective communication across global teams and departments.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in technology and processes.
• Evangelize and guide in the establishment of a DevOps mindset and supporting organizational model.
• Apply engineering leadership and software engineering practices at scale.
• Drive cross CIO-Org activities promoting a culture of innovation and engineering excellence.
• Lead teams through the management and transformation of global and cloud network, cloud services such as AWS, Azure, workstations, mobile devices, and collaboration platforms at an enterprise level.
• Monitor, evaluate, and stay updated on industry trends and disrupting threats and opportunities and drive technology advancements.
• Advocate and drive Agile methodologies to promote self-driven teams, enhance productivity for better product delivery.
• Work closely with Portfolio teams, product owners, and business to ensure delivery of initiatives and continuously review and improve processes to help for a more efficient flow of work.
• Work closely with product, design, and other engineering/architect teams to align strategies.
• Drive and build team and product roadmaps with measurable outcomes that align to our CIO-suite strategy.

Company Information: At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration, and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.