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Abbott · 5 hours ago

Sr. Director of Hosting and Cloud Services

Illinois, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$190K/yr - $380K/yr

15+ years exp

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Senior Director of Hosting and Cloud Services is responsible for creating and implementing the strategic roadmap for hosting and cloud technologies, managing a large scale of data centers and cloud platforms, and leading company-wide strategic initiatives.

BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and define the vision, strategy, framework and roadmaps for global Hosting and Cloud Services

Development of service catalogs, standards and architectures for next generation of platforms and services

Understand industry best practices and challenge the status quo to support continuous improvement

Establish IT Infrastructure Services continuity strategy to support Disaster Recovery programs

Define KPI’s to measure performance of team and deliverables

Drive operationalization of hosting and cloud strategies with governance, architectural, security, workload placement and prioritization as core developed capabilities

Drive digital transformation, automation and sustainability across hosting and cloud platforms

Manage all aspects of quality and audits related to the infrastructure including AQR audits

Manage a high-performance team of employees and service providers to deliver a quality set of integrated global services with adherence to standard processes, tools, and service levels

Identify and implement industry aligned 'metrics that matter' to continuously improve service levels and reporting

Actively engage the Senior IT Leadership Team to collaborate on strategic projects and operational alignment with IT applications, infrastructure and security teams

Lead and coordinate large enterprise strategic initiatives that require cross-functional collaboration and may span multiple years

Stay abreast of the latest technology trends and develop business cases for future adoption

Develop functional goals and objectives

Create, track, and manage annual operating, capital, and project budgets

Develop a culture of risk taking and innovation driven organization that continuously embraces and adapts to change

Influences direct reports, clients, service providers and peers to successfully deliver on business commitments

Qualification

Cloud transformation programsInfrastructure managementAWSAzure expertiseTeam leadershipIT service managementDisaster Recovery strategyBudget managementProject managementCommunicationCollaboration skillsNegotiation skillsAdaptability

Required

15+ years of various experience in Information Technology

10+ years of experience managing globally diverse support teams in a large global enterprise

15+ years of experience and strong knowledge of technology and industry trends

Extensive experience of core infrastructure including networking, Hosting (servers, storage and backup), cloud services and virtualization technologies

Experience leading multi-year cloud transformation programs for large scale organizations

Experience in Microsoft, Cisco, Azure and AWS technologies

In-depth knowledge of key AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services such as: IaaS, VM, DB PaaS, App Services, AI, and container management

Extensive experience working with IT vendors, suppliers and managed services providers

Ability to bring insight, knowledge, best practices and feedback to strategic discussions

Excellent presentation, communication, negotiation, influence and collaboration skills

Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally

Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and assignments

Advanced skills in managing teams in a technical environment

Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Business or equivalent work experience

Preferred

Master's degree preferred

Company

Abbott

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Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.

Founded in 1888

Illinois City, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.abbott.com

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