About the Role
The Director, Cloud, Connectivity & OT shapes the technology foundations that enable secure, resilient and increasingly connected industrial operations. This role sets the enterprise direction for operational technology, connectivity, cloud and edge environments, creating a consistent digital backbone between plant systems, production environments, and enterprise technology. It creates value by improving the reliability, scalability, and maturity of industrial technology while enabling automation, real-time operational insight, and data-driven decision-making. Additionally, it strengthens the convergence of OT and IT while ensuring architecture, platforms, and technology investments remain aligned with operational priorities and enterprise standards. Through enterprise governance, modernization, and capability building, this role enables the scaling of digital and autonomous operations while enhancing operational resilience and managing industrial technology risk.
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What You Will Deliver
Enterprise OT, Cloud & Connectivity Strategy
- Shape and execute the enterprise strategy and roadmap for OT architecture, cloud, edge, connectivity, and industrial technology, aligned with enterprise architecture and technology priorities.
- Establish standards, governance, and lifecycle principles that create consistent, scalable, and resilient industrial technology environments across sites.
- Translate operational priorities and technology maturity gaps into targeted transformation initiatives with clear performance outcomes.
Resilient Industrial Technology
- Drive the modernization and standardization of critical OT systems and controls, including PLC, DCS, SCADA, MES, LIMS, and historian environments.
- Strengthen the availability, reliability, interoperability, and lifecycle performance of technology supporting mining and processing operations.
- Enable resilient cloud, edge, hosting, and connectivity environments that provide dependable data exchange across industrial and enterprise systems.
Digital & Operational Enablement
- Build the technology foundations required to scale automation, advanced analytics, remote operations, and increasingly autonomous operating models.
- Enable secure, reliable, and high-quality OT data flows into enterprise, cloud, and Data & AI environments.
- Improve operational visibility and technology performance through remote monitoring, optimization, and proactive management of industrial systems.
Governance, Risk & Transformation
- Strengthen OT governance, architecture, and controls to manage technology risk, cybersecurity dependencies, obsolescence, and lifecycle requirements.
- Direct enterprise modernization initiatives that improve technology maturity, operational resilience, and scalability across sites.
- Establish meaningful KPIs for OT availability, reliability, resilience, and maturity, using performance insights to prioritize investment and improvement.
Enterprise & People Leadership
- Align Operations, IT, Data & AI, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity and Innovation around integrated technology roadmaps and transformation priorities.
- Lead and develop multidisciplinary capability across OT architecture, infrastructure, connectivity, and related technology disciplines.
- Provide authoritative advice to executive stakeholders and strengthen decision-making on industrial technology priorities, investments, risks, and strategic partnerships.
What Success Looks Like
- Enterprise OT, cloud, connectivity, and edge architectures are standardized and adopted across relevant operations.
- Critical industrial technology environments achieve targeted levels of availability, reliability, resilience, and scalability.
- Technology modernization delivers measurable improvements in operational performance, automation readiness, and technology maturity.
- OT and enterprise technology environments exchange secure, reliable, and high-quality data that enables analytics, automation, and operational decision-making.
- Industrial technology, cybersecurity, and lifecycle risks are proactively governed and reduced through effective standards, controls, and investment planning.
- Enterprise technology teams and operational stakeholders execute against integrated roadmaps with clear accountability, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Electrical, Control, Industrial or Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience
- 10–15 years of relevant experience in operational technology, industrial automation, infrastructure, or industrial technology environments.
- Significant experience leading enterprise-scale OT modernization, systems integration, connectivity, or cloud and edge transformation.
- Strong experience with industrial environments incorporating SCADA, DCS, PLC, MES, LIMS, historians, and networked production technologies.
- Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary technical teams and complex transformation initiatives across enterprise and operational environments.
Skills That Matter
- Enterprise OT architecture and industrial automation
- Cloud, edge, hosting, and industrial connectivity
- OT/IT convergence and systems integration
- Industrial control and production systems
- OT cybersecurity, resilience, and technology risk
- Technology strategy and transformation roadmaps
- Operational performance and lifecycle management
- Large-scale modernization and program delivery
- Executive stakeholder and vendor management
- People leadership and capability building
