At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead tech strategy, manage cloud infrastructure, and drive innovation in a dynamic environment.
- Company: FirstOntario Credit Union, committed to health, wellness, and employee growth.
- Benefits: Top-tier health benefits, flexible work, and up to $1000 for professional development.
- Other info: Hybrid role in Stoney Creek with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in tech while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in IT management, strong leadership, and cloud expertise required.
The predicted salary is between 169238 - 211548 $ per year.
Top-tier health and wellness benefits, including comprehensive benefits packages, a yearly health spending account and personal spending account. Enhanced mental health benefits through SunLife and TELUS Health. Up to $1000 per year towards professional development. Pension Plan. Flex-work environment. Company-wide Employee Volunteer program (Blue Wave Program). Employee and Family Assistance Program.
Job Overview: The VP of Technology & Cloud Engineering drives technology strategy, oversees the design of IT infrastructure (cloud/on-prem), manages related budgets, ensures security by design, leads the Infrastructure team, oversees site reliability engineering (SRE), aligns tech with business goals, and champions innovation, focusing on reliability, scalability, cost-efficiency, and compliance through strong financial acumen and stakeholder partnership. This role ensures the entire technology stack, including cloud services, is designed efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively to support the company's growth, often bridging the gap between technical execution and business strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute technology roadmaps, aligning IT Infrastructure with business objectives.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Platform Delivery: Oversee design of global cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure, SRE, and network operations for high availability.
- Oversee the structure of the infrastructure as a code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm) and ensure the CI/CD pipelines, build environments, and monitoring systems are built to maximize developer productivity and deployment quality.
- Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and manage high-performing technology teams.
- Budget & Finance: Manage large IT budgets, control costs, and optimize technology spending.
- Security & Compliance: Implement robust cybersecurity, data protection, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards (FSRA, ISO27001 and others as applicable).
- Innovation: Champion emerging tech like AI/ML, support digital transformation, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Policy Management: Contribute to IT policy management process, ensuring consideration for Infrastructure, Cloud and Security best practices.
- Stakeholder Management: Partner with business leaders to understand needs and ensure tech delivers value.
- Operations Excellence: Optimize ITIL processes (incident, change, problem) and ensure reliable service delivery.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Required Skills:
- Computer Science Diploma or equivalent with 10+ years of experience managing infrastructure teams.
- Exposure to ITIL concepts and adoption, certification desired.
- Foundational knowledge in IT frameworks such as ISO27001, ITIL, COBIT, NIST, etc.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), DevOps, SRE, networking, and cybersecurity.
- Experience managing IT Infrastructure and/or IT Operations Teams in a highly available complex infrastructure with 24/7 availability and support.
- Deep experience with employee enablement tools including Microsoft suite of employee enablement products such as 365, Entra, Teams and others.
- Experienced with regulatory compliance, as well best practices in application and network security.
- Proficient in project management, strategic planning, change management, successful management of large-scale projects, advocacy of critical business requirements, and enabling business process improvements and culture change.
- Datacenter management and migrations.
- Aware of and mitigate enterprise risk factors and ensure compliance with applicable regulations, legislation and FirstOntario policies and procedures.
- Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure management and digital transformation.
- Strong financial acumen for budgeting and ROI analysis.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and their business application.
- Willingness to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends as the job demands and travel as required.
This role is hybrid in Stoney Creek, ON. This posting is for an existing vacancy. Salary Range: $169,238 to $211,548 annually. Compensation for this role reflects a combination of skills, experience, and internal equity. Those whose experience more closely aligns the role's requirements may be placed higher within the salary range. You will learn more about FirstOntario Credit Union's total rewards package during the interview process. Our inclusive work environment welcomes diversity and supports accessibility. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know.
VP, Technology & Cloud Engineering in Hamilton employer: FirstOntario Credit Union
FirstOntario is an exceptional employer that prioritizes employee growth and community engagement, making it a rewarding place to work as the Vice President of Wealth Management. With a strong focus on mentorship and team development, employees are encouraged to excel in their careers while contributing to meaningful outreach initiatives in Stoney Creek. The hybrid work model and commitment to compliance ensure a balanced and dynamic work environment, fostering both personal and professional success.
