Head of Information Technology

17 hours ago


Doha, Baladīyat ad Dawḩah, Qatar TRS Staffing Solutions Full time

We are currently assisting a well-known company based in Qatar and looking to hire a Head of IT.

Job Objective:

To lead and manage the IT function in alignment with the strategic goals of the offshore marine industry, ensuring seamless and secure IT operations across global assets.

Responsibilities:

  1. Lead the execution of a digital workplace strategy that ensures employees have the tools and work environment to be more engaged, productive and effective.
  2. Provide direction and oversight for the design, development, operation and support of IT systems and programs that fulfill the needs of the business, including enterprise architecture management, application management, security and risk management, and infrastructure and operations support management.

Business Relationship Management:

  1. Create synergies across the organisation to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions in achievement of business goals.
  2. Ensure high levels of professionalism and support services within the IT team.

Digital Transformation:

  1. Collaborate with management to define and execute the digital business strategy.
  2. Participate in and contribute to the assessment of external digital opportunities and threats, and internal technology capabilities required to achieve desired competitive positioning.

Data Science:

  1. Provide leadership and direction across a programme of multidisciplinary data science projects, managing resources to ensure delivery.
  2. Interpret, organize, and present data as needed.
  3. Oversee the implementation of Corporate IT directives, policies, procedures and security standards.
  4. Ensure all relevant procedural and legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality and cost-effective service to all internal customers.

Outsourcing and Vendor Management:

  1. Identify aspects of IT operations that require additional third-party service support to meet business objectives.
  2. Oversee the selection and management of IT contractors in terms of both cost and quality.

IT Infrastructure and Applications:

  1. Monitor the IT infrastructure and applications across all locations.
  2. Ensure compliance with statutory requirements in relation to intellectual property, copyrights, data protection, etc.
  3. Facilitate utilization of collaborative tools such as SharePoint, internal blogs, etc.

Information Security & Disaster Recovery:

  1. Ensure the adequacy and effectiveness of security policies, standards and guidelines to avoid any potential data leakage or loss.
  2. Ensure the implementation of a disaster recovery plan to enable the company's recovery of business data in the event of an emergency and ensure IT availability for business continuation post such an event.

Budget:

  1. Organize quotations (including work scope specification) and capex approval process.
  2. Develop and control the annual operating and capital expenditure budget for IT to ensure it is consistent with overall strategic objectives.

Management:

  1. Develop and maintain an IT workforce with the appropriate mix of business knowledge, technical skills, and competencies that balance the needs between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient.
  2. Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to the IT team.

Other:

  1. This position description provides a general guide as to the major accountabilities of this role. It should not be taken as a definitive list of duties that may be reasonably expected of the incumbent and may vary from time to time and include any tasks commensurate with the role and required by the Line Manager.

Qualifications:

  1. Tertiary qualifications in IT and/or Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) certification.
  2. Must have a minimum of 10 years' experience in a similar role, preferably in the maritime industry.
  3. Proven experience in IT project management and implementation.
  4. Develop and maintain an infrastructure system which includes SAN, VMWare, Windows and Messaging environment globally.
  5. Implement, support and manage network infrastructure including routers, firewalls, switches, LAN, and WAN globally.
  6. Develop upon the existing infrastructure safeguards relating to system security within a global environment.
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