Eaton Corporation has an opening for a Vice President IT - Cloud Transformation & Migration.  This person will report directly to the Vice President IT & CTO.  This position can be based in any of our core locations (Beachwood OH, Raleigh NC, Houston TX, Moon Twp PA, Galesburg MI, Menomonee Falls WI), or possibly any Eaton location.

The Vice President IT - Cloud Transformation will be at the forefront of our technological transformation, modernizing our capabilities into one that is leveraging Cloud capabilities, unlocking access to new ways of working and capturing gains in experience, speed and productivity that translate into better outcomes for Eaton.  The Cloud Transformation leader will lead a vertically integrated team of over 60+, including employees, leaders-of-people, and contractors that is distributed across Eaton’s footprint.  The VP will take the lead in defining our Enterprise Cloud strategy and migration roadmaps.

As a part of the Infrastructure Services leadership team, this position will have significant leadership and interface responsibilities with the Eaton operational leaders, vendor partners and information technology product teams across the enterprise. This position will have direct responsibility for the IT profit plan related to Cloud.

Essential Functions:
•    Develop and execute on Cloud strategy as a part of Eaton overall IT strategic intent that address the foundational elements such as governance, cybersecurity, network, automation, cost management and operating model.
•    Pivot to an IT product and business outcome-based delivery model to support the functional excellence and digitization efforts.
•    Promotes a digital mindset oriented, product-centric and business outcome focused culture.
•    Work across teams to develop and/or ensure maintenance of end-to-end roadmaps for digital capabilities and ensure delivery of those solutions conform to standard delivery process (waterfall, agile).
•    Influence the enterprise technology roadmap for infrastructure management, be the gatekeeper for the definition of implementable strategies for cloud infrastructure, drive the implementation of these strategies and deliver the initiatives on target, on budget, and on time.
•    Ensure the incremental delivery of efficient technology solutions that are strategic in nature, while supporting tactical objectives as well.
•    Develops and deploys strategic modernization approaches that enable and prepare Digital application management teams to cost effectively shift legacy applications to cloud platforms and Infrastructure-As-Code. 
•    Participate in deep technical design discussions within the team, across partner teams, and ensure that we're building the right solutions with business outcomes as a priority.
•    Accountable for tracking cloud consumption (FINOPS), budget and forecast along with finance team and working with product teams to manage cloud consumption costs.
•    Manages the department budget and recoveries, ensuring we meet our profit plan and forecasts.
•    Maintains control over the P&L for Cloud Transformation and migration, assuring that costs are aligned to business requirements and that expenses are continuously evaluated, measured against a competitive marketplace, and optimized.
•    Drive productivity, usher in new infrastructure technologies, and systematically eliminate legacy infrastructure technology debt.
•    Collaborate and support the leadership team with process excellence and digitization recommendations and partner with other teams to deliver actionable and innovative technical and functional guidelines.
 

•    Requires 15+ years of relevant experience, preferably managing virtually in a global environment.
•    Experience migrating from a mature/legacy technology stack to a modern technology stack. Proven expertise with large cloud service providers.
•    Experience with controlled technical data in the Cloud and GovCloud implementation models
•    Experience with migration of solutions from on-premises to public cloud and be well versed with migration strategies.
•    Legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.

Eaton Leadership Attributes:
•    Effectively drives and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new and innovative ideas.
•    Demonstrates professional presence, communicates articulately and confidently.
•    Effectively leverages functional and cross-functional resources to solve problems, improve processes and meet objectives.
•    Demonstrated written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills. 
•    Demonstrated success in effectively and confidently providing “leadership” to employees in a constantly changing environment.

Education:
•    An undergraduate degree is required.  A Master’s degree is preferred.

Compensation:
•    Eaton recognizes this role as a critical position within the corporation and will create a compelling package consisting of a base salary, employee incentive compensation, including long term incentive and complete benefits.

Location:
•    This position can be based in any of our core locations (Beachwood OH, Raleigh NC, Houston TX, Moon Twp PA, Galesburg MI, Menomonee Falls WI), or possibly any Eaton location.

About Eaton:

Why Work at Eaton? EVP Manifesto Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KDo7fQwno

Eaton at a Glance:  https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/careers/Why%20work%20at%20Eaton.pdf

Sustainability Report:
https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/sustainability/files/eaton-sustainability-report.pdf

Global Inclusion & Diversity Transparency Report:
https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/inclusion-diversity/eaton-inclusion-diversity-report.pdf
 

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At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $195000.03 - $286000.04 a year.  This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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