VP Cloud Engineering & Operations

At VyStar, we offer competitive pay, an excellent benefit package that includes a 401(k) Plan, an extensive paid technical and on-the-job training program, and tuition reimbursement--available to all full and part time employees. Part time positions start at a minimum of 30 hours per week.

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VP Cloud Engineering & Operations

Accountability Statement

Under the direction of Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations will be responsible for the analysis, design, planning, implementation, and maintenance of all facets of the Cloud infrastructure, engineering, and operations at VyStar including Cloud Strategy, Engineering & Governance, Operations, and related services.

The Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations plans, lead and coordinate, and directs all daily operational activities of these teams and provides direction and solutions that enhance mission-critical services to enable Cloud services and stability while delivering all benefits of Cloud technology including online and mobile banking delivery channels ensuring world-class financial services to our members.

As part of CTO team, you'll be an integral part of enabling our cloud journey towards moving our applications, infrastructure, and workloads out of our data centers and into the Cloud; reaching the goal of scale, flexibility, and error free operations. Working with Chief Technology Officer, you will own the vision and strategy for cloud adoption and drive the associated program delivery and change management. This senior strategic leadership role is of the utmost importance as we move to cloud adoption and growth. This position provides the cloud strategy, leadership, and day-to-day management of staff with ultimate responsibility for identifying and designing related current and future technical solutions which keep products and services in use 24/7/365 while driving cloud Enablement and accelerating cloud migration and adoption.

This role requires a mix of broad technical knowledge, project management experience, strong analytic skills, a strategic vision to transform and drive innovative solution, and a track record of delivering results. Qualified candidates will have Azure and Multi-Cloud experience, strong technical leadership and storytelling skills to build rapport with technology and business partners.

Essential Job Functions

• The ideal candidate will bring industry leading thought leadership to develop and drive a "Cloud First" strategy for Vystar to meet our growing need for speed to market, delivery flexibility and competitive capabilities in the increasingly challenging landscape for member finance services; that can be operationalized in every region and market that we operate in.
• Develop a business case and transform cloud cost model for cloud capabilities by providing a flexible, on-demand, consumption-based model.
• Collaborate with internal, enterprise partners to deliver modern capabilities from leading cloud platform and cloud services providers for Vystar consumption, with fast cycle times.
• Drive adoption of cloud infrastructure and application patterns to meet speed, stability, scalability, security goals, and simultaneously deliver the associated savings from moving to cloud platforms.
• Build framework for application portfolio analysis and establish decision criteria to select applications best suited for cloud migration based on Total Cost of Ownership, workload profile, data gravity, network latency and information security needs.
• Identify motivators for cloud adoption and unblock enterprise challenges, with a focus on meeting internal security, risk and compliance standards with a common approach that enables rapid adoption of cloud across all functions.
• Provide any audit related support to address risk reward for cloud adoption, ensure security, risk and compliance measures exceed any criteria established by regulatory oversight.
• Influence cloud technology strategy, under the leadership of CTO, by engaging thought leaders and skilled industry experts (e.g Azure, AWS, Google, IBM, Oracle, Pivotal, Red Hat) to design fit-for-purpose solutions for VyStar, balancing customization and speed of consumption.
• Determine security requirements to develop a best-in-class security posture (with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture leaders) that prevents franchise risk but drives adoption of cloud capabilities in a pragmatic, and repeatable manner.
• Partner application development leaders to leverage capability development in order to drive application modernization and migration to cloud platforms, by implementing standard design patterns, compliant with target state architecture.
• Collaborate with aligned architects, engineering, application managers, project managers, and infrastructure teams to drive emerging technology standards to industry best practices.
• Provide regular and meaningful management information on cloud adoption, including spend, benefits, and investment view over a multiyear period.
• Drive a culture of innovation, data driven solutions and a forward compatibility mindset to ensure the workforce is seeking and leveraging emerging industry trends and changes that affect the business and the member experience.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Industry leading thought leadership and experience with internal and external cloud services, and container orchestration models.
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience with enterprise level IT projects, with 5+ years on consumer banking branch, IT infrastructure, architecture, design and deployments.
• Deep technical expertise on Azure and products and vendors in the cloud industry.
• Breadth of expertise in private and public Cloud Computing (i.e Azure, AWS, Google, IBM, Red Hat, Pivotal, Oracle platforms), technologies and architectural best practices.
• Understand cloud characteristics, models (IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and licensing practices.
• In-depth understanding of security needs for cloud adoption in the financial industry including requirements from regulators such as NCUA, CFPB etc.
• Must possess cloud industry experience and presentation ready knowledge of popular cloud platforms and related industry trends.
• Experience with taking a product to market on an internal and external cloud platform.
• Experience in providing internal cloud platform capabilities for adoption by a global enterprise IT organization.
• Expert level technical acumen with ability to identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of cloud services in conjunction with business requirements.
• Expert level ability to understand the business domain of the customer or partner and the business problems the customer or partner is facing, with the intent to solve the business problems.
• Experience with large scale, complex, application integration environments with regulatory oversight.
• Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve results that will have a significant business impact.
• Demonstrated passion for building teams, and mentoring engineering skills required for cloud adoption at an enterprise scale.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to present information to senior level audiences and regulators in simple, logical business terms.
• Diligent, disciplined and organized in her/his work: meets deadlines, strives for high quality, has complete documentation.
• Strong Leadership and team-building skills
• Extremely accomplished in communicating to all levels of management with the presentation skills necessary to communicate, and persuade, a wide range of audiences.
• Superior analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Superb project management and organization skills.
• Financial services experience is highly desired

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline; Master's degree or MBA is highly desirable; equivalent experience acceptable
• 15+ years of progressive IT leadership experience