VP Technology Infrastructure and Delivery
Compeer Financial

Compeer Financial is seeking collaborative, innovative and dynamic professionals to be a part of our Top Workplace culture!

Tell me more about this opportunity.

Position Overview:
This position is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of all BT infrastructure including transformation strategy, operational planning and the effective and efficient delivery of all BT infrastructure services and solutions used to support business processes and services across the organization. Provides value-based and inspirational leadership to the BT Operations Team by setting goals and direction aligned with the organization and directs the team in achieving those goals. This position offers ahybrid work option up to 50% remote, and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Leadership and Execution (35%)

• Champions the brand; serves as a role-model for the vision, mission and values of the organization. Supports Compeer's strategic initiatives.
• Leads the development and execution of the infrastructure transformation strategy, including cloud transition strategy, user-experience & service delivery strategy, technical roadmap and change leadership approach; ensures the strategy aligns and integrates with the overall BT and enterprise strategic plans.
• Maintains currency on new technologies and platforms, including artificial intelligence, Edge computing, Cloud and other emerging technologies and provides direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated and introduced to infrastructure in a way that enhance the teams value
• Ensures that BT capabilities respond to the needs of the organization's business strategy.
• Designs, directs, manages and oversees infrastructure services by establishing and implementing short and long-term strategies to accomplish the goals and objectives to deliver in-scope BT services to the Compeer organization within budget, schedule, and quality objectives.

Team Leadership (35%)

• Creates and promotes a positive culture and work environment that leverages the talents and abilities of team members in achieving the goals for the Infrastructure and Delivery team.
• Creates and promotes a values and trust-based culture of high-performance and execution across the Infrastructure & Delivery team.
• Selects, develops, motivates, and engages great talent to create and maintain a high-performing team; ensure a talent-pipeline to meet the future needs of the team.
• Effectively initiates, inspires and leads change within the team, BT and at times across the Compeer organization.
• Creates/modifies team structure and identifies capabilities and roles needed to evolve the Infrastructure & Delivery team as new technologies such as Cloud are introduced to the organization.
• Determines performance standards and development plans and effectively communicates them to team members.
• Manages the evaluation and compensation processes for direct and indirect reports.
• Drives continuous process improvement and develops best practices within the team.
• Coaches team members on more complex and challenging issues and decisions.
• Manages human capital budget and forecasting.

BT Operations Management and Roadmaps (20%)

• Ensures that all infrastructure and networks operate according to identified standards, regulatory and legal requirements.
• Determines focus areas, workloads and projects for the roadmap based on corporate direction and anticipated technology trends and requirements.
• Directs project scope and deliverables, spending, vendor selection, project team selection, time, solutions and acceptance.
• Establishes policies and standards to ensure continued security and operation of the network and supported technologies.
• Provides resources for the computing environment to ensure secure, reliable and operational efficiency in supporting all business operations and systems.

Budget and Technology Investment Management (10%)

• Develops and controls the annual operating expenditure and capital expenditure budgets for infrastructure to ensure that it is consistent with the overall strategic objectives of BT and the organization.
• Manages the audit process.

Minimum Qualifications & Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
• Minimum of 10 years of information technology experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of leadership and management experience preferred.
• Exceptional people leadership and talent development skills including the ability to select, evaluate, engage, motivate, mentor, train, delegate, reward and lead team members.
• High learning agility with demonstrated ability to apply past experiences and learnings successfully in new situations.
• Demonstrated ability leverage values-based leadership to shape and influence culture; able to lead in a hybrid work environment.
• Proven experience leading technology transformation and change initiatives.
• Proven ability to develop high-impact technology strategy.
• High degree of curiosity across leadership and technology disciplines.
• Strong listening, written and verbal communication skills, with ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Skill in developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships.
• Strong problem solving, decision making and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations.
• Solid knowledge of agile solution delivery principles.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with other teams to achieve goals and represent the business.
• Demonstrated success in implementation of large, complex programs.
• Strong strategic thinker, able to deliver tactical deliverables.
• Solid project management skills.
• Valid driver's license.

Responsible to appropriately protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the organization's systems and data and clients' data.

Who is Compeer Financial?
Compeer Financial exists to champion the hopes and dreams of rural America. By joining our team, you will help empower those in agriculture and rural communities to achieve their goals and expand their possibilities. We embrace business agility and innovative approaches to serving our clients and communities.

Why join our team?

• Amazing team members who are passionate about serving agriculture and rural America.
• Investment in our team members' education, growth and development.
• Engagement in our communities through giving back and volunteerism.
• Flexible, collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Great benefits:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
  • 401K (3% Compeer contribution & up to an additional 6% match)
  • Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays, volunteer time)

Find out why our team members choose Compeer Financial by watching this video.

How do I apply?
Qualified candidates, please apply online at www.compeer.com/careers.

Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

---