Job Description:
POSITION SUMMARY
As a key contributing leader of the Digital and IT leadership team, the Senior Director, Infrastructure and Digital Platforms will own and execute the strategy, engineering, lifecycle management of the company’s networking, on-premise and cloud infrastructure environments. This leader will also build and maintain the shared digital platforms that enable the enterprise, such as, but not limited to the creation of an enterprise data and analytics platform and the application workload platform. This leader will be charged with the following mandates:
Own and continuously modernize resilient, secure and scalable networking, on-premises and cloud infrastructure environments that support business growth and critical global operations.
Create and operate enterprise digital platforms, including a trusted data and analytics platform and a standardized application workload platform, that accelerate delivery, reuse and innovation.
Partner tightly with business and technology domain teams and the Cybersecurity team to embed guardrails, automate policies and controls, and enable teams to deliver securely at scale.
As a visible leader in the organization, you will build trusted relationships, translate enterprise needs into platform capabilities and deliver measurable outcomes. You will be a player and a coach, setting clear technical direction while enabling teams to use infrastructure, data and application platforms to advance TransMedics’ mission.
RESPONSIBILITIES
This position is responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
Infrastructure Strategy and Operations
Define and execute a multi-year infrastructure strategy spanning enterprise networking, data centers, on-premises environments, cloud services, connectivity, compute, storage, backup and recovery.
Ensure infrastructure services are resilient, observable, secure, cost-effective and capable of meeting business continuity, disaster recovery, performance and regulatory requirements.
Seek a high level of AI and automation adoption through infrastructure as code and self service, driven to reduce all manual efforts
Establish service ownership, architecture standards, capacity planning, lifecycle management, operational metrics and continuous-improvement practices across the infrastructure portfolio.
Manage technology partners and cloud providers to dependable service levels, financial commitments and measurable business outcomes.
Partner tightly with other Digital and IT domain teams to understand product and business needs, co-create roadmaps and provide reusable infrastructure and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.
Work closely with the Cybersecurity team to translate security, privacy, compliance and risk requirements into automated technical guardrails, policy as code, continuous compliance checks and actionable monitoring
Digital Platforms
Create and maintain the enterprise level platforms that are used to build and deploy our mission critical business applications. Such platforms will include the build and maturing of an enterprise data and analytics platform.
Create and maintain the application workload platform, providing standardized environments, deployment patterns, runtime services, integration capabilities, observability and developer enablement for modern applications.
Apply platform-product management practices, including clear roadmaps, service catalogs, adoption measures, reliability objectives, cost transparency and feedback loops with domain teams.
Embed AI capabilities and standardized DevOps tools to increase standardization and consistency across the application landscape
Enable transparency of capabilities and provisioning through service catalog to further increase automation abilities
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Build and maintain a high performing team responsible to execute the scope of responsibility
Manage and maintain partner relationships across technology and service providers that support your…