Director, Infrastructure-Investment Management Company-Hybrid Schedule

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Position Summary

BACKGROUND :

Columbia Investment Management Company, LLC, ("IMC") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia University charged with stewarding Columbia's endowment for the current and future support of University operations and with preserving the purchasing power of the endowment over the long-term after inflation. Almost all assets across the $15B+ endowment are managed externally in a diversified strategy that uses active and passive management techniques across a wide range of asset classes.

The IMC seeks professionals who can contribute materially to the management of the portfolio. The IMC environment is one in which staff members are expected to develop professionally, work collaboratively, and assume greater responsibilities according to ability and impact.

POSITION SCOPE :

Technology is critical to the execution of our mission at the IMC which manages a diverse set of software as a service (SaaS) products and an internally developed data analytics platform to support our portfolio management, research workflow and investment selection process. Our goal is to provide world class, integrated technology to reduce risk, increase efficiency and analyze data with the goal of generating additional alpha for our portfolio.

The Director of Infrastructure will be responsible for the management of our cloud infrastructure that supports both internal and commercial software products. This hands-on role will be asked to identify and solve opportunities for reducing risk and increasing operational efficiency. In addition to the dedicated team of technology, investment and operations professionals at the IMC, this role will work closely with our partners at Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) and our Managed Service Provider who provides cloud management and help desk support. This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Responsibilities

Cyber Security

• Drive the development of security policies, procedures, and documentation
• Participate in analyzing security breaches to identify the root cause and implement corrective actions
• Manage security awareness training for the IMC staff including phishing and in person training sessions
• Monitor, manage and patch our infrastructure
• Collaborate with the development team to ensure security controls are integrated into system designs and CI / CD pipelines

Infrastructure Management

• Direct our Managed Service provider to manage and enhance our Azure and AWS infrastructure
• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery planning, policies, procedure and testing
• Manage productivity tooling including Teams, Zoom, Office 365, etc.
• Collaborate with our A / V vendor to ensure a robust and dynamic hybrid work environment across our five recently built conference rooms.
• Ability at a high level to troubleshoot third party and bespoken in-house systems
• Work along side our Managed Service provider to test AWS changes and desktop computing setups

Project Manage Digital Efforts

• Collaborate with our operations and investment teams to identify opportunities to leverage new products and technology that can help execute our mission
• Support our mission to adopt Artificial Intelligence with secure infrastructure and data privacy

Vendor Management

• Identify and select key vendors to help further our risk management and organization efficiency efforts.
• Perform Vendor due diligence and manage vendor relationships
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 5-7 years related experience.

Other Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of information technology experience.
• Minimum 5 years of infrastructure management experience.
• Office 365 (hybrid environment) experience.
• AWS and / or Azure cloud management experience.
• Project Management experience.
• Must be detail-oriented with strong analytical skills and organized work habits.
• Must be able to identify priorities within multiple assignments in a high-pressured, short-deadline environment, and be able to work with diplomacy and efficiency in such an environment.
• Must be able to demonstrate excellent organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Work well with all levels of employees, be flexible in nature, have sound judgment with an open and collaborative style that encourages teamwork and cooperation beyond the immediate team to the broader organization.
• Experience with endowment and foundation or financial services vendors is strongly preferred (ex : BNY Mellon, Northern Trust, Fundamatic, Bloomberg, S&P, Cambridge Associates, Albourne, Canoe intelligence).

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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