Director Enterprise Information Technology

Responsibilities

Director Enterprise Information Technology

OPD is seeking a Director, Enterprise Information Technology! This role will lead departments, teams, projects, and resources in the pursuit of maintaining the health, availability and capability of OPPD's critical IT infrastructure and systems. This role is charged with ensuring current systems are positioned to meet the business needs of today, addressing the need for continuous enhancement, while ensuring alignment with OPPD's future IT platforms. The successful delivery of this critical path will require strong relationship management with business leaders across the District, collaboration across the TS Leadership Team, and a forward looking perspective and planning discipline. As new/future technology solutions and platforms emerge from TS's Digital Transformation (DT) division, this role needs to ensure awareness and alignment with the work being performed within the DT environment. The Director, Enterprise IT serves on the CIO¿s management team, upholding its shared mission, vision, core values, and leadership principles.

• Build and maintain a competent/capable team of staff in alignment with OPPD's leadership expectations, practices, and guidelines.
• Work/Collaborate with leadership and key staff to further Technology & Security's mission by participating in strategy and direction setting, identifying, and prioritizing areas for improvement, and ensuring a divisional focus on best practice change management.
• Accountable to develop and implement plans and programs (1-2+ years in scope) to maintain and evolve OPPD's current IT capabilities in alignment with TS's future technology blueprints.
• Provide the broad perspective and the contextual clarity for the work of direct report teams to ensure alignment with TS and OPPD organizational direction.
• Periodically, serve as a program sponsor/lead on critical initiatives, guiding the directional clarity and ensuring the successful delivery of program/project objectives.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field
• 8 year's experience managing and leading technology teams
• 10 year's experience in information technology demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking and judgment skills in the analysis of data, policies, practices, and operational issues.
• Knowledge of project management principles including the ability to plan, budget, organize, schedule and delegate work activities.
• Knowledge of leading information technology and operational technology security practices.
• Experienced in leading teams in support of disaster recovery plans
• Knowledge of business continuity, strategic planning and related practices.
• Ability to plan and organize complex work, review and analyze data, solve complex technical problems and make sound policy and procedural decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate the value of technology to technical and non-technical stake holders
• Demonstrate company core values
  
  

Desired:

• Advanced degree in business, technology or engineering
• ITIL or COBIT certification
• PMP Certification (Project Management Professional)
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• CISA, CISSP certifications or other security based certificates
  
  

Closing Statement

Level - S10

Foundation - $158,021

Maximum - $237,031

At Omaha Public Power District , we're passionate about three things: power, the people who make it, and the people who rely on it.

WE ARE: Where the Light Starts. OPPD is the 12 th -largest public power utility in the U.S., serving over 850,000 people across 5,000 square miles and 13 counties.

WE¿RE COMMITTED TO: Each other and the people we serve. This commitment drives us. We're dedicated to providing our communities with affordable, reliable, and environmentally sensitive energy services today, tomorrow, and well into the future.

OUR JOB: To provide power with a purpose. We have real impact - on people's lives, on the environment, and on the future of energy. We're always looking for bright, capable people who want an opportunity to lead from where you are wherever you are and know that your ideas will be heard. If you want to be a source of real, positive change for the community and the people who live in this region, then working for a company acknowledged for caring about these same things is likely a priority for you as well.

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EOE: Protected Veterans/Disability

How To Apply

Apply online at www.oppd.com on or before August 25, 2024

Recruiter: Patique Collins - pncollins@oppd.com

• PLEASE NOTE** - Your application has not been submitted unless you have applied for a specific requisition. If you have not chosen a specific opening, your application will remain in 'DRAFT' form and will not be viewed by our Human Capital staff.