Habitat for Humanity is hiring a
Remote Senior Director, IT Strategy & Architecture

The Senior Director, IT Strategy & Architecture proactively and holistically helps guide the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of future strategy. The Sr. Director’s scope of activities includes helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to grow revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks. The position’s focus is to:

• Engage business and IT stakeholders, creating and building relationships

• Facilitate IT Strategy and Roadmaps based on business operating vision

• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services

• Design and build an EA team oriented around internal management consulting

• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model

• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the IT landscape

• Coach and mentor EA practitioners

This position will be responsible for defining the advisory process, EA process, and architecture governance, and for leading the integration of those processes with related business and IT functions.

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

• Ten or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis.

• Ten or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.

• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• Strong leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.

• Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture, business and IT principles and processes.

• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills.

• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.

• Comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.

• Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.

• Vendor- and technology-neutral — more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences, or in vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

• Experience in nonprofit organization

• Active support of HFHI Values:

• Safeguarding: HFHI requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Managers at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation, and abuse safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially children), and promotes the implementation of Habitat for Humanity’s code of conduct.