IT Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation

BOK Financial•Tulsa, OK

About The Position

We're building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people can bring their best, be their best, and work for the best. You've come to the right place to grow your career. You place great value on building meaningful relationships, leveraging technology to transform business outcomes, and creating clarity across complex enterprise initiatives. Bring your knowledge, skills, and abilities to us as a Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation. You will be positioned to lead one of the organization's most important modernization efforts while shaping the future direction of cloud, platform, automation, and transformation services. The Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation leads an expert team of highly skilled and diverse technology leaders, Cloud Architects, Engineers, Platform Specialists, and Transformation professionals responsible for establishing, advancing, and governing BOKF's cloud adoption strategy and modernization journey. This position provides strategic oversight of enterprise cloud services, application modernization programs, cloud platform engineering, automation capabilities, production support, project execution, and transformation initiatives that enable the lines of business to meet corporate strategic objectives. The Director serves as the communications link and strategic liaison between business leadership, technology teams, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, risk management, vendors, and executive stakeholders. This role is accountable for developing technology plans, roadmaps, operating models, and investment recommendations that advance BOKF's long- and short-term strategic goals. The Director translates business needs into secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud and platform capabilities that improve speed to market, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and enterprise resiliency. Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through the delivery of resilient, secure, and customer-centric technology. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in technology, modern engineering practices, cloud capabilities, automation, and a deep understanding of our business units.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Information Management, or a related field and at least 12 years of progressively responsible technology experience delivering enterprise-level IT solutions, leading highly skilled technical professionals, managing financial operations, administering service contracts, and driving organizational transformation.
Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, application modernization, platform engineering, DevOps, or digital transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated success leading managers, architects, engineers, and technical professionals through large-scale technology change.
Experience managing multi-million-dollar technology budgets, vendor relationships, cloud providers, managed service relationships, and contract negotiations.
Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
Consideration is given to advanced technical certifications in cloud technologies, infrastructure architecture, cybersecurity, DevOps, automation, project management, and technology leadership.
Deep understanding of AWS services, architecture, landing zones, multi-account operating models, migration strategies, cloud governance, and operational best practices.
Strong knowledge of Azure, hybrid cloud architectures, enterprise network integration, identity integration, and secure cloud connectivity patterns.
Experience designing highly available, resilient, scalable, secure, and compliant cloud platforms for enterprise workloads.
Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CloudFormation, automation frameworks, and modern software delivery practices.
Experience establishing platform engineering capabilities, reusable service patterns, self-service capabilities, developer enablement models, and shift-left practices.
Ability to guide engineering teams toward automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and measurable operational maturity.
Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, networking, data center services, business continuity, disaster recovery, and hybrid operations.
Experience with observability platforms, monitoring solutions, operational analytics, Site Reliability Engineering principles, incident management, problem management, change management, and ITIL practices.
Knowledge of proactive lifecycle management, platform currency, technical debt reduction, resiliency planning, and operational readiness practices.
Knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns, application migration strategies, modernization approaches, containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, microservices, API-driven integration, and modern application delivery methodologies.
Ability to partner with application, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams to establish migration and modernization priorities based on business value, technical risk, and operational impact.
Advanced knowledge of technology-based information resource management systems and management information systems.
Advanced management, project management, relationship management, and team-building skills.
Advanced vendor management, service contract administration, and contract negotiation experience.
Ability to negotiate compromise, build consensus, influence executive decision-making, and align diverse stakeholder groups around enterprise outcomes.
Excellent interpersonal, oral, written, presentation, and executive communication skills.
Strong financial management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, business case development, investment prioritization, and value realization capabilities.
Good understanding of leading-edge technologies and how they are applied in a business environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
Consideration is given to advanced technical certifications in cloud technologies, infrastructure architecture, cybersecurity, DevOps, automation, project management, and technology leadership.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement enterprise cloud enablement and transformation plans that support strategic long- and short-term goals for BOKF and its lines of business.
Develop a thorough understanding of business strategies, operating processes, information needs, and administrative procedures to ensure cloud and modernization initiatives enable measurable business outcomes.
Serve as a trusted advisor and communications link between business leadership, technology leadership, and enterprise stakeholders regarding cloud strategy, modernization priorities, technology risks, and investment decisions.
Envision, produce, and advance strategic playbooks and multi-year roadmaps that encompass cloud platforms, application modernization, automation, observability, platform engineering, lifecycle management, and emerging technology enablement.
Orchestrate and deliver foundational cloud capabilities that accelerate enterprise digital transformation initiatives and enable modern, resilient, and scalable business technology solutions.
Establish modernization frameworks, migration patterns, reference architectures, and transformation playbooks that help applications move from legacy environments to cloud-enabled and cloud-native architectures.
Drive initiatives that reduce technical debt, improve operational efficiency, strengthen resiliency, and increase technology agility through automation and modernization.
Lead an expert team responsible for designing, building, improving, operating, and advancing cloud platform services across AWS and other strategic cloud environments.
Establish enterprise standards for cloud architecture, automation, platform engineering, reliability engineering, observability, governance, and operational excellence.
Champion Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, GitOps, self-service engineering capabilities, and shift-left practices that improve developer productivity and accelerate solution delivery.
Direct the design, development, implementation, support, and operation of automated systems and cloud platforms to ensure delivery teams adhere to business requirements, company methodology for project management, enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and compliance expectations.
Establish KPIs and KRIs that measure platform health, cloud adoption, transformation progress, operational effectiveness, resiliency, customer experience, and value realization.
Make recommendations for system enhancements, platform improvements, procedure improvements, and technology investments that strengthen the effectiveness of technology delivery.
Prepare and manage annual operating and capital budgets, including resource planning, project financial analysis, cloud consumption governance, forecasting, optimization, and financial tracking.
Provide leadership for strategic vendor partnerships, cloud providers, managed service relationships, consulting engagements, contract negotiations, and service agreements.
Ensure technology investments are aligned with enterprise priorities and deliver measurable business, operational, risk, and resiliency outcomes.
Direct leaders, architects, engineers, and transformation specialists by creating, delivering, and monitoring meaningful performance goals and clearly understood expectations.
Build organizational capability through recruiting, coaching, mentoring, training, succession planning, and internal mobility opportunities.
Establish a culture focused on accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, operational excellence, and responsible risk management.