Director/Senior Director, IT
About The Position
Odyssey is seeking a Senior Director, IT to lead the operational execution of our enterprise technology environment — infrastructure, service delivery, and cybersecurity — across a hybrid on-premises and AWS footprint. This role leads our IT and security team and day-to-day operations, while developing the multi-year technology and security roadmap that will guide how we scale securely and reliably. This is a hands-on operational leadership role for someone who thrives on execution, team development, and driving measurable improvement in a fast-moving, biotech spanning early discovery through to a regulated clinical environment.
Requirements
- 10+ years in IT leadership spanning infrastructure/operations and cybersecurity, ideally in a regulated life sciences or healthcare environment.
- Experience operating under GxP, SOX, or comparable compliance frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
- People leadership experience, including managing managers.
Nice To Haves
- Security certification (CISSP, CISM, or similar) preferred, not required.
- Exposure to clinical systems (CTMS/EDC) and AI governance frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Own IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and service delivery across our hybrid on-prem and AWS environment, ensuring performance, availability, scalability, and high-quality ITSM practices.
- Drive a proactive and strategic vendor management program, including contract negotiation, performance monitoring, SLA compliance, and fostering strong, mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Lead the enterprise cybersecurity program — architecture, controls, and incident response — across prevention, detection, response, and recovery.
- Ensure IT compliance with industry regulations (SOX, GxP) and data privacy standards, and emerging AI governance and data privacy requirements.
- Develop, implement, and regularly test disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure organizational resilience.
- Partner with Clinical Operation, Quality and Lab Operations on IT support for clinical trials and scientific systems — including CTMS, EDC, LIMS and ELN platforms — ensuring data integrity, security, and GxP compliance.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing IT and Cybersecurity team, fostering an environment that encourages continuous learning, professional development, and technical excellence.
- Drive the adoption and optimization of modern infrastructure and cloud technologies (AWS, hypervisors, networking)to support enterprise platforms, including approved AI tools.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
