Back to jobsStrategic Leadership: Define and maintain multi-year technology roadmaps for the Operations and Engineering departments, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and RWE’s corporate strategy. Lead strategic transformation initiatives, including cloud migrations, application rationalization, and modernization programs
Business Alignment: Partner with departmental leaders and subject-matter experts to communicate program status, core system health, and evolving priorities. Translate business objectives into technology initiatives, ensuring IT investments deliver measurable outcomes for Operations and Engineering stakeholders
Mentorship & Talent Development: Build high-performing, resilient teams through strategic hiring, mentoring, and performance management. Develop staffing models that support organizational growth, reduce knowledge silos, and grow internal capability from entry-level analysts through senior architects. Champion succession planning and career development at all levels
Agile & DevOps Excellence: Standardize Agile and DevOps practices across all IT teams within the portfolio. Use industry metrics such as DORA to baseline and improve deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore — driving sustained gains in velocity, quality, and reliability
System Modernization & Architecture: Establish architectural standards and review processes that ensure new solutions are built for longevity and maintainability
Operational Excellence: Ensure the availability and reliability of core systems, including Aveva PI and enterprise integration platforms, targeting 99.9% uptime through proactive monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement. Implement dashboards and reporting that provide real-time visibility into system health
Integration Strategy: Own the integration strategy within operations and the engineering domain, governing data flows between 30+ systems and the enterprise data and analytics platform. Ensure data quality, reliability, and discoverability across publishing and subscribing systems, establishing integration standards, and reducing point-to-point dependencies
Enterprise Platform Management: Provide strategic oversight for SAP Plant Maintenance and Materials Management, leading a local Technical Manager to streamline governance between central and local operating company teams. Identify opportunities to reduce cycle times and improve platform adoption and data quality
Vendor & Budget Oversight: Manage large-scale IT budgets, balancing innovation investment with operational cost discipline. Lead strategic vendor selections, contract renewals, and third-party performance reviews to optimize cost, reduce risk, and align vendor capabilities with long-term technology direction
Governance & Compliance: Set and guide governance frameworks for IT delivery across the Engineering & Operations portfolio, establishing policies for security, testing, deployment, and change management. Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure all solutions meet corporate security standards and regulatory requirements
Portfolio Management: Maintain a complete, accurate application portfolio covering all departmental systems, with validated business owners, defined support tiers, and clear lifecycle plans including deprecation roadmaps. Use this foundation to right-size team capacity and prioritize investment decisions
