Director of Defense IT

Overview of the Position:

The Director of Defense Information Technology will be responsible for Wencor Defense information and technology footprint, overseeing an internal team along with managed service providers. The successful candidate will assist the company through strategic and tactical decision-making and provide leadership and direction utilizing the company's Technology Platforms to ensure that the Technology Strategy meets the business objectives. This role requires hands-on leadership, and technical expertise to ensure efficiency, security, and satisfaction for our client base. The position will report to: Wencor VP of Information Technology with a dotted line to the President, Defense

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the application development team in designing, developing, and implementing software applications. Coordinate projects from inception to deployment, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define application specifications. Monitor and evaluate application performance, making recommendations for improvements. Maintain and support existing Pentagon and eVision applications. With Change Management in mind, ensure continued adoption of digital solutions and seek to optimize the use of Wencor's Defense technology platforms. Provide oversight to a development team, along with contractors, consultants, offshore, and crowdsourced resources supporting ongoing project efforts with an "on-time and on-budget" mentality.
• Gain understanding of business needs; research, and implement solutions related to applications development, ERP technology roadmap, systems migration and enhancement planning, and CMMC security initiatives.

• Work closely with the operations and line of business leaders. Deliver world-class technology solutions to further integrate the environments and improve transparency and analytics, delivering customer data, supply chain, and digital business solutions that support the growth initiatives and simplify/streamline the operation. Working to consistently review and improve processes and productivity with new system enhancements. Building Power BI solutions to support data analysis of the key stakeholders.
• Manage Capacity and Demand exceptionally. Set objectives, communicate clear priorities, deliverables, and metrics to drive and measure performance. Develop and maintain an IT budget for our Defense business.
• Secure the Organization, CMMC -- Working with Wencor Corporate Technology team to ensure the integrity, reliability, and continuity of computerized information systems, communication systems, and office systems including the security of data acquired and stored.
• Build and grow a talented IT leadership team. Further develop the IT organization to ensure the appropriate functional and business partner leaders are in place to support the company. Develop, recruit, and mentor talent and leverage external partners where necessary and appropriate.
• Knowledge of Pentagon ERP system or similar Aerospace Distribution ERP.

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 7+ years of design, development, and deployment of application software.

• 5+ years of extensive experience in leading high-performing, agile development teams across multiple locations.

• Deep understanding of modern ERP platforms and related applications.
• 3+ year of data analysis and delivering BI solutions for enterprise reporting.
• Track record as a stand-alone technology leader in a similarly sized company or divisional experience for an autonomous division in a large company environment. Diverse and broad technology experiences and general technology acumen is expected.
• Well-rounded business acumen to effectively work with the senior leadership team/key stakeholders. Experience in distribution and value-added operations and in business partner roles would be additive.
• Strong ability to build and manage appropriate security architecture to protect assets and ensure business continuity; demonstrated ability to design and implement comprehensive approaches to cyber security, risk management, and incident response.
• Working in conjunction with Wencor Corporate IT Team to enable efficient and effective Infrastructure: networks, servers, desktop hardware, security appliances, cloud providers, etc.
• Strong project and vendor management skills.
• Industrial company experience in a similar multi-site manufacturing and distribution environment and exposure to ERP, supply chain and CRM solutions.
• Hands-on orientation, business mind, and intensity to operate in an environment that expects speed, agility and earnings growth.
• Moves assertively without being overly abrasive with focus on a clear and defined path forward. Comfortable taking action to achieve a goal and to hold others accountable.
• Demonstrates the ability to assess, engage, and attract top talent and align a team to raise performance levels and morale.
• Demonstrates a high mental capacity with the ability to learn quickly and possesses a strong willingness and desire to work hard.
• Experience integrating systems to achieve synergies and drive standard technology tools and platforms is a definite plus.

Education / Experience Requirements: Bachelor's in IT, Business or related field preferred. 10+ years of progressive, IT and continuous improvement experience.

Other Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Job requires that weight be occasionally lifted to 10 pounds.
• Frequently required to talk or listen.
• Uses near-visual acuity.
• Works in moderate noise levels.
• Travel up to 10%.