About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of Position
The Director, IT leads multiple teams within Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, Network/Telephony, Project Management, Business Relationship Management or Deskside Support. The Director, IT owns executive-level relationships and serves as a single point of focus, working to converge IT solutions across multiple functions, departments, and business lines. As an experienced change agent, the Director will diplomatically and effectively drive improvements on the team and at the organizational level.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Facilitate IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals demonstrating true strategic decision-making abilities aligning to long term technology road map.
- Partner with department leaders to understand business strategy, demand, and priorities and help the business propose programs/projects to drive those strategic goals
- Direct continuous improvements of systems and procedures
- Anticipate how the business strategy or policy changes will impact systems and processes
- Participate in the development of departmental IT budget
- Assist in developing business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives
- Measure effectiveness of deployed solutions
- Coordinate and facilitate consultation with senior-level stakeholders to define technology roadmap and systems requirements
- Develop strong relationships with senior business leaders, articulate risks, negotiate tradeoffs facilitate decision-making, prioritize, and remove cross-team impediments
- Work across organizational boundaries to manage communications and build positive relationships
- Lead strategy for end point engineering, automation and IT service management