Manager, Desktop Engineering & Architecture

Job Summary

The IT Leader focuses on the delivery and refinement of digital products. This role involves strategic product planning, feature execution, and managing technology systems for business operations. Responsibilities extend to coordinating with IT groups for troubleshooting and system enhancements, leading system installations, upgrades, and maintaining system operations. The leader is also responsible for guiding the technology teams, fostering innovation, and driving automation to enhance support for end users. This position emphasizes a strong commitment to developing team capabilities and promoting an agile work environment to optimize business outcomes.

The IT Manager is focused on strategic planning and team development. Managers translate strategic product plans into actionable roadmaps and manage the integration of new technology systems across business operations to improve processes. They oversee a broader range of IT functions and coordinate with other department heads to ensure systems alignment with business goals. At this level, managers are responsible for middle-level team leads or supervisors, setting broader team goals and performance metrics, and focusing on talent development through training and mentoring. They develop and control significant project budgets, analyzing returns on investments and strategically allocating resources across projects to maximize operational efficiency.

The Manager - Desktop Engineering & Architecture - WKOPS is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing innovative technology solutions for the workplace that align with the organization's strategic objectives. This role requires a deep understanding of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to ensure the organization's technology infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and secure.

Job Responsibilities

• Partners and collaborates with all stakeholders to understand and translate goals and objectives into architecture, roadmaps and capability models. Reconcile different perspectives and drive toward consensus
• Looks across applications, infrastructure, technology components and data to when developing roadmaps and capability models that outline how technology solutions are and will be structured
• Creates and maintains reusable artifacts and patterns. Harvests artifacts across initiatives to extend the library of reusable artifacts and patterns or to enhance the existing reusable artifacts
• Develops policies, standards, guidelines, procedures and metrics that measure architectural quality and business outcomes
• Engages with implementation teams to encourage and promote use of existing models, methods, services and other artifacts and capabilities resulting in increased speed of technology solution delivery, making such delivery more predictable and increasing the overall re-use of technology components
• Researches architectural paradigms and modern architecture constructs. Learns how processes such as continuous delivery or technologies such as micro services impact technology architecture
• Ensures compatibility with existing solutions infrastructure, services and strategic requirements
• Act as a bridge among various parties during implementation of architecture components and their integration
• Communicates the objectives and business outcomes of the technology architecture and the associated use cases in which the organization will derive the most value
• Provides support and leadership to inform and aid evaluation and decision making in technology spending
• Participates in the ecosystem strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development

Job Specific Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with at least 10 years of relevant work experience including leadership experience
• Experience implementing / managing Enterprise Architecture and Technology Standards programs in medium to large organizations
• Sound expertise in product/program management and alignment with Architecture deliverables (road maps, principles, standards, and best practices)
• Ability to proactively communicate technical topics in a clear, succinct, and relevant way
• Proven experience in managing program budgets and Technology cost centers in large corporate environments to ensure corporate targets are met
• Technology procurement and Technology financial operations Experience ensuring vendor contracts support business and corporate needs
• Proficient in working with business areas to understand needs/requirements with an Ability provide innovative solutions
• Technically knowledgeable with the ability to assess solutions for current and future needs across organizations
• Proven experience with leading teams on the implementation and enhancements of Energy Efficiency technologies, and/or cloud technologies.
• Track record as an innovator and agent leading organizations and people through change
• Proven experience in long term planning including building roadmaps and program planning
• Has digital acumen
• Strong leadership and influence skills
• Ability to present to all levels of management and executive leadership
• Excellent teamwork, facilitation, relationship building, and negotiation skills
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks
• Deep knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Expertise in network architecture, security, and virtualization
• Experience with data architecture and data management concepts
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Desired

• Certifications in cloud computing, cybersecurity, or enterprise architecture
• Experience with agile/waterfall development methodologies
• Knowledge of specific industry standards and regulations

Minimum Years of Experience

10 years of experience

Education

Bachelors

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