As Director of IT you will be responsible for overseeing the organization’s IT infrastructure and ensuring that all IT Systems are running properly at all times.
RESPONSIBILITIES MANAGEMENT:
- Prioritize, plan and oversee IT projects and required staffing
- Oversee recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all IT staff based on upcoming projects and budget requirements
- Coach, mentor, motivate, supervise and evaluate team members, and promote positive actions and accountability for their assigned work
- Manage and develop all IT procedures, policies and standards to improve quality and efficiency
STRATEGY & PLANNING:
- Be mindful of and committed to the long term corporate vision and objectives and technological tools that can help achieve them
- Identify areas of potential business development and keep up to date with emerging industry trends and technologies
- Implement IT systems, strategic and operational plans and ensure that current and future IT needs are met
- Oversee the production of pre-planning studies, execution, and finalization of all IT projects according to strict deadlines and within budget? Architecture
- Evaluate, identify and oversee the integration of optimal technology platforms to deliver the company’s services (web application frameworks, email service and communication systems, web application hosting providers, etc…)
- Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization
- Monitor network security and ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s data and servers
- Plan enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plans
- Oversee the deployment process of applications and platforms
CODING
- Participate in the scoping process of new projects
- Review technical designs, wireframes and specification documents to ensure conformance to development standards
- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing
- Set forth development methodology and oversee testing, coding conventions and documentation standards
- REQUIRED SKILLS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering, Business with IT background or equivalent experience
- Over 10 years of experience in software development and IT system management
- Over 5 years of experience managing a software development team
- Excellent leadership and communication skills – verbal and written
- Excellent time-management, organizational and prioritization skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Experience with web application deployment and frameworks
- Knowledge of software development standards and best practices
- Experience with risk management, data recovery, information security and PCI compliance
- Knowledge of Internet protocols and RFC standards, database management and revision control systems
- Experience with UNIX system administration and web server configuration
- Strong working knowledge of PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, one or more JavaScript frameworks, and AJAX
- Experience in Java, Ruby on Rails, Grails JSON, HTML5/HTML,Flex/Flash or JavaScript an asset
- Experience with iPhone, iPad and Android mobile applications
- Strong interest in the latest trends and innovations in the IT industry
To apply for this job email your details to alex@kovasys.com