IT Director, Global Infrastructure

The IT Director, Global Infrastructure provides strategic leadership and is responsible for Infrastructure across all manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, and corporate offices. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a robust, secure, and scalable IT infrastructure that supports global operations. The IT Director, Global Infrastructure oversees data centers, networks, cloud services, end-user support, IT operations, and hybrid infrastructure that enables our enterprise platforms to ensure high availability, performance, and alignment with business goals and supporting a 24/7 manufacturing and supply chain organization.

General Responsibilities

• Directs the activities related to Information Technology in the company, involving the definition, development, maintenance and operation of technology
• Advises on the selection of hardware, software and supplies
• Oversees and determines timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages
• Oversees and reports on allocation of IT budget
• Directs team and overall IT business operations to achieve company goals
• Transparently communicating throughout the IT organization and business
• Identify areas of improvements and concerns and accordingly develop action plans

Experience / Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Business ethics - Ability to practice and behave consistently and effectively in areas of business practice and conflicts of interest
• Communication - Ability to communicate effectively by getting the right message across to the right people at the right time on a regular basis
• Customer Orientation - Ability to meet customers’ expectations by identifying and anticipating customers’ needs and integrating these into work; ability to develop new added value for customers and act with the customer in mind
• Result orientation - Ability to take steps personally to ensure that mutual goals and performance targets are met within the appropriate timeframe
• Teamwork - Ability to work with others and work synergistically with fellow team-members
• Planning and Organizing - Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work and schedules in all areas to meet requirements
• Problem solving - Ability to reach logical conclusions to situations by appropriately analyzing the situation. Balances the benefits, risks and consequences of actions
• Time Management - Ability to assessing your ability to manage your time, and the effectiveness of your team to reach department objectives
• Conflict management - Ability to recognize and work towards a mutually agreeable solution when confronted with conflict
• Decision making - Ability to think through possibilities and make sound decisions with appropriate degree of risk; knows when he / she has enough data to make an informed decision
• Resilience - Ability to work under pressure and prioritize
• Strategic thinking - Ability to turn strategy into action, to see the big picture and use this ability productively
• Managing objectives - Ability to decide what needs to be accomplished and design a plan to achieve the desired results
• Team Management - Ability to delegate, motivate, mentor, develop and manage team to achieve objectives. Manage external resource against SLA and operational metrics
• Budget Management - Ability to project and present annual operation Expense and Capital budget in departmental budget process

• Strategic Leadership:
  Develop and execute a global IT infrastructure strategy aligned with the company’s business objectives and digital transformation roadmap.
• Infrastructure Management:
  Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of global infrastructure including data centers, networking, cloud platforms (e.g., Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure), storage, and compute resources.
• Global IT Operations:
  Ensure 24/7 operational support, monitoring, and incident management for infrastructure services across all regions.
• Cybersecurity & Compliance:
  Collaborate with the CISO and security teams to ensure infrastructure complies with industry standards, data privacy regulations, and best practices.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  Manage a globally distributed team of infrastructure engineers, architects, and operations staff. Foster a high-performance, accountable, collaborative, and inclusive culture between this team of employees and contractors and the broader IT organization
• Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Migration:
  Evaluate existing Infrastructure design and determine if changes to the strategy are needed to meet business needs.
• Vendor & Budget Management:
  Negotiate and manage relationships with infrastructure vendors and service providers. Partner with internal sourcing for vendor evaluation, selection and contract negotiation. Develop and control the infrastructure budget.
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery:
  Design and implement robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Assist in developing and executing a robust technical department process that spans both our enterprise infrastructure and our operational technology. Operational experience with the convergence of IT/OT and infrastructure supporting global MES platforms.
• Program Management:
  Oversees the development and execution of many projects across the global infrastructure from onboarding acquisitions, offboarding divestures, technical upgrades, implementation of new technologies that impact end users.

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Base Salary Range:

$177,800.00 - $244,420.00

At Sensata, our employees are the key to our success and growth.  We recognize that each individual brings their own unique experience, therefore the base salary range information shown above is a general guideline only.  Sensata considers several factors when extending an offer, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience and qualifications, as well as internal equity, market and business considerations. In addition to base salary, Sensata offers competitive medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans, along with education reimbursement, wellness programs, a 401(k) retirement plan with Company matching, and a variety of paid time off, such as vacation or flex-time, sick, bereavement, and parental leave. Certain positions are also eligible for short-term incentive and long-term incentive programs.

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