QuidelOrtho
Senior Director, Technology Infrastructure & Operations
US - CA - San Diego - Summers Ridge · Director
H1B sponsorship available$10k-$15kDetected 22 days ago
Cloud PlatformsBudgetingPerformance ManagementMedical DevicesLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- QuidelOrtho unites the strengths of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, creating a world-leading in vitro diagnostics company with award-winning expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing, clinical chemistry and transfusion medicine.
- We are more than 6,000 strong and do business in over 130 countries, providing answers with fast, accurate and consistent testing where and when they are needed most - home to hospital, lab to clinic.
- Join us in our mission to transform the power of diagnostics into a healthier future for all.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the enterprise infrastructure and operations strategy with accountability for long term functional impact and alignment to business priorities, resiliency objectives, security requirements, and the technology roadmap.
- Define and manage service level objectives, operational KPIs, and executive reporting for uptime, response times, issue resolution, customer satisfaction, and cost performance.
- Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives include automation, observability, standardization, technical debt reduction, and lifecycle management for platforms and hardware.
- Manage strategic vendor relationships, outsourced services, and infrastructure partners, including commercial negotiations, performance management, and make-versus-buy decisions.
- Shape the talent strategy and organizational design for infrastructure and operations teams, including workforce planning, capability development, and succession planning.
- Own the architecture, delivery, and ongoing operations of core infrastructure services including cloud platforms, networks, compute, storage, identity, collaboration, endpoint management, and site technology.
- Partner closely with cybersecurity, enterprise applications, data and AI, and business teams to ensure infrastructure services meet security, integration, performance, and compliance requirements.
- Lead disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and operational resilience planning to reduce risk and improve recovery readiness across critical systems and sites.
- Perform other work-related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- No strenuous physical activity required.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree required in related field
- advanced degree preferred.
- Typically requires 15+ years of relevant experience, or 10+ years with a combination of progressive leadership experience, scope, and demonstrated impact at scale within a complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure, operations, cloud platform, or enterprise technology roles within complex global enterprise environments, with responsibility for multiple teams
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise infrastructure and operations teams with accountability for reliability, service delivery, modernization, and business continuity outcomes.
- Experience establishing scalable operational processes, service metrics, and performance management disciplines across distributed teams and global environments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to communicate with and influence executive leadership on matters of strategic importance and negotiate priorities across functions.
- Strong knowledge of operational risk management, disaster recovery, change control, and compliance requirements relevant to enterprise technology environments.
Compensation
- Salary Transparency
Company info
- Substantial time will be spent in virtual or in-person meetings, engaging with customers, and working on scientific content and documentation.
- Our culture puts our team members first and prioritizes actions that support happiness, inspiration and engagement.
- We strive to build meaningful connections with each other as we believe that employee happiness and business success are linked.
- Join our mission as our next Senior Director, Infrastructure & Operations leader to support our enterprise-wide infrastructure and operations strategy.
Equal opportunity
- QuidelOrtho is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals so that an individual can perform the duties.
- If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and require special assistance or an accommodation to apply due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@quidelortho.com. #LI-TO1
- QuidelOrtho believes in Equal Opportunity for all and is committed to ensuring all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, have an opportunity to apply for those positions that they are interested in and qualify for without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
- If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and require special assistance or an accommodation to apply due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@quidelortho.com.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not currently eligible for visa sponsorship.
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