Senior Director of Cloud

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Role overview

• Responsible for Leading the overall Strategic direction of OneAmerica's transformation to the Cloud. Responsible for developing and managing the Cloud Practice and best in class delivery. The Senior Director of Cloud will be responsible to develop the business and technology transformation plans over the next 5 years leveraging a Cloud First mindset. This role is considered the executive expert to with the ability to align and deliver a business need with a technology solution. This position requires the ability to articulate delivery approach, plan, budget and value proposition to C-level executives.
• You are expected to influence the organization by providing thought leadership, working independently and raising the bar for other operational practices. This role will have a key focus on turning a reactive operational environment into a proactive practice leveraging processes, technologies and thought leadership across the organization and our managed service partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction, planning and execution for OneAmerica’s future direction for the usage of cloud services
• Develop the business and technology transformation plans for cloud architecture and business productivity tools and systems. This position requires the ability to articulate delivery approach, plan, budget and value proposition to executives.
• Lead the definition of Standards, Policies and Procedures and best practices for the usage of cloud-based services
• Identify solutions that represent opportunities to leverage cloud services and architectures by evaluating quality attributes, technology risk, capacity variability, and other factors where a cloud native architecture solution can add benefit to the overall solution.
• Understand the financial impacts of cloud based architectural decisions and lead cloud cost management solutions, forecasting and proactive cloud management practices.
• Develop and refine operational processes and tools to ensure availability, reliability, security, scalability, repeatability and standardization.
• Mature and refine process management, monitoring, alerting, escalation, risk management and SLAs through the implementation and use of KPIs and reporting analytics.
• Establish relationships with leadership across growth, delivery, solution management, and support leadership to ensure cross-functional alignment at scale
• Experience in developing and managing the architectural and engineering efforts to action against this vision and strategy.
• Ability and experience with developing high performing teams and Cloud practice, with strong accountability and overall technology leadership experience.
• Multi-year experience working with cloud service providers such as Azure and AWS, large scale distributed systems principles, cloud native platforms, CI/CD principles, software architecture, systems configuration and management, network architecture and management, operations & security engineering.
• Experience in architecture, engineering and operations frameworks with Cloud Service Providers (specifically Azure and AWS) and the various IaaS and PaaS offerings that each provide.
• Experiencing in working with and leading outsourced managed service providers in a cloud practice.
• Experience in building and running highly automated and secure Cloud Platforms from the ground up with a product mindset.
• You possess strong analytical abilities to work on complex issues with minimum supervision
• You have good working knowledge of high-tech industry, with demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in new areas
• You excel in all areas of strategy development, including project management, analysis, problem solving, verbal and written communication, consensus building, and people development
• The role will provide cross-domain technical & business leadership, service definition, & problem solving to support the acceleration of OneAmerica's cloud transformation and adoption.
• Ability to build value propositions/business cases and communicating within the delivery organizations & with senior executives (SVP, EVP).
• Ownership of the managed services contract for the Engineering and Cloud practice.
• Drive innovative thought in the specific areas of responsibility for the future, by implementing standards and approaches seen in the industry
• Provide frequent and transparent updates, manage client expectations, and keep all stakeholders informed of the progress of all projects.

Qualifications:

10+ years of experience, with significant strategy and/or technology product experience

10+ years of experience in designing and implementation of complex IT systems or consulting experience with distributed applications or systems architecture

10+ years' experience with building, scaling and running IT , Operations, or Applications support

5+ years' experience in a Cloud Leadership role or Cloud Architecture role

5+ years of cloud experience, focusing on the business and transformational plans

Proven experience in developing a highly performant team with a transformational mindset and the ability to deliver large scale programs.

Solid understanding of modern cloud technologies and best practices, including Cloud native architectures.

Experience running revenue generating applications in a public cloud and IaaS, including real world experience with at least one public cloud provider:

Microsoft Azure (preferred) or AWS

• Proven experience to manage multi-million-dollar program and team budgets
• Master’s in business administration or a Computer Technology/Engineering field given additional consideration.
• ITIL certification preferred

This selected candidate will be expected to work in a Hybrid environment in Indianapolis, IN. The candidate will also be expected to physically return to the office as business needs dictate or for team-building and collaboration.

If you are offered and accept this position, please be advised that OneAmerica Financial does not have any offices located in the State of New York and OneAmerica associates are not permitted to work remotely in the State of New York.

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Disclaimer: OneAmerica Financial is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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