Head of Information Technology

• Community banking, financial services, or similarly regulated-industry experience.
• Experience supporting organizational growth, geographically distributed locations, and critical operations with limited tolerance for downtime.
• Experience planning cloud and hybrid environments, data-center simplification, outsourcing, and third-party integration.
• Familiarity with banking technology ecosystems, core and digital banking integrations, secure file transfer, payment or transaction platforms, and conversion support.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Relevant technical, security, cloud, risk, or service-management certifications.
• Progressively responsible experience leading technology operations in a regulated, security-sensitive, or highly available environment.
• Prior formal supervisory or management experience, including responsibility for staff development, performance expectations, delegation, and team accountability.
• Strong, current technical expertise in enterprise networking, including LAN/WAN operations, routing, VPN connectivity, firewalls, DNS, certificates, and multi-site connectivity.
• Strong experience with cybersecurity operations, infrastructure, Microsoft 365, identity and access management, endpoint administration, monitoring, backup, recovery, and incident response.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a realistic IT roadmap and to connect technical priorities with business needs, risk, cost, and organizational capacity.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing technology capabilities, improving scalability or resilience, and leading significant technology change without disrupting critical operations.
• Experience evaluating legacy constraints and determining when to modernize, simplify, integrate, standardize, outsource, or retain existing technology.
• Experience working with regulatory examinations or independent audits, technology risk management, vendor oversight, and business continuity or disaster recovery.
• Experience managing service providers, technology vendors, budgets, contracts, renewals, and escalations.

Ability and willingness to work hands-on while also leading people, setting direction, and communicating with senior management and business leaders

You can enjoy the following perks:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Health, Dental, and Life Insurance
• Partially paid Short and Long-Term Disability
• Company-matched 401K retirement account
• Bankers’ hours
• Paid Federal Holidays

Salary: $130k - $170k / annually

The Head of Information Technology is a hands-on, business-aligned technology leader responsible for the security, reliability, and effective operation of the bank’s technology environment. The role requires strong technical depth in networking, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, together with proven supervisory experience and the ability to lead a capable team through the bank’s next stage of growth.