Director, It, Global

**About Vantage Data Centers**

Vantage Data Centers is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equality, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

**CIO Organization**

The CIO organization drives technological innovation for the company and advances the technology strategy to support global growth. This includes IT, Software Development, OT / Automation Systems, and business process improvement. At Vantage Data Centers, we are very hands on. In most cases, we specify, purchase, configure and maintain all networking and server hardware. We also work closely with partner VARs to learn about the latest technology changes so we can make informed purchase decisions. The CIO organization participates in designing each of our new data center building’s networking infrastructure, including but not limited to diverse pathways connecting to carriers, meet-me room (MMR) hosting (rack, cabs, ladders, cross connect panels ), wireless AP coverage, etc.

We rely on extreme collaboration with Sales, Construction, Operations and Corporate Functions to drive simplification, establish global standards with continuous improvement and speed to value. We are working to build a reliable, scalable, sustainable, and secure technology roadmap/landscape that enables us to better serve our customers and employees and be the partner of choice. Our focus on speed to value with extreme collaboration and financial/execution discipline. We strive to double the good, halve the bad, in half the time.

**Position Overview**

Vantage Data Centers is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative, detail-oriented Director, IT, Global to be the Regional CIO Partner for APAC. This role will report to the CIO, Global and have dotted line reporting to the COO, APAC. This role will provide the overall technology leadership and management of the company’s IT operations in the region.

You will be expected to contribute to the global technology strategy, roadmap, standards, and policies. This role will be responsible to work with CIO leadership team to develop plans for improvement that meet regional requirements and ensure compliance to global standards in APAC. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a strong foundation of technology services and practices that enable and accelerate the company’s growth in APAC. The position could be either based in our Singapore or Hong Kong office.

**Essential Job Functions**
- As part of CIO staff, influence the global technology strategy and roadmap to address regional requirements and challenges while reducing NVA (non-value add) work and technical debt
- Advocate for consistent global technology strategy, roadmap, standards, policies and prioritization to the APAC Leadership team
- Advocate for APAC specific requirements and challenges to be understood and addressed by CIO organization
- Manage key relationships to ensure services are aligned and delivered to business requirements
- Be the local mentor, coach and leader for CIO resources in APAC that may be part of your peers’ team viz. Automation Systems, Networking, IT Infrastructure, IT ServiceDesk, IT Corporate Systems

**Duties**
- Collaborate with APAC business leaders to understand their technology needs and regional business goals
- Collaborate with CIO leadership team and internal business partners to identify and evolve service offerings
- Partner with CIO leadership team and APAC leadership team to drive alignment on timeline and prioritization
- Responsible for Global environment, including local network & storage, laptops, tablets, cloud services, device management.
- Manage and lead a team of IT professionals and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction with IT services
- Ensure compliance to global technology strategy and standards in APAC
- Oversee implementation of new technology projects/systems, ensuring successful deployment and adoption
- Manage the regional IT budget, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure that the IT infrastructure and systems within the region are secure, reliable and comply with all relevant regulations and global standards.
- Stay current with new and emerging technologies, making recommendations for improvements and upgrades as necessary.
- Provide regular status reports to the Global Chief Information Officer and senior management on the performance of the IT operations within the region
- Essential functions of this position are to be performed