Director IT Infrastructure - Financial Institution

This is a leading financial institution with strong presence across APAC, looking for a strong infrastructure leader to head up a team for infrastructure and end-user computing. Responsibilities

• Lead the Infrastructure, End User Computing, and IT Operations teams to ensure high availability, stability, and performance of enterprise platforms.
• Own the design, implementation, and operational management of on-premises and cloud infrastructure environments.
• Drive infrastructure modernization, automation, standardization, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Lead cloud adoption and migration projects, ensuring smooth transition of services with minimal business disruption.
• Establish and maintain infrastructure governance, security controls, capacity planning, and configuration standards.
• Oversee Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR), and infrastructure resiliency programs.
• Manage infrastructure vendors, managed service providers, and technology partners, ensuring SLA compliance and service quality.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure roadmaps aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement activities.
• Manage infrastructure budgets, resource planning, procurement, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with application, security, architecture, and business teams to support strategic technology initiatives.
• Mentor and develop infrastructure engineers and operational support staff. Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or enterprise technology operations.
• Proven experience managing enterprise infrastructure environments across Windows, virtualization, storage, network, and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud technologies.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure automation, scripting, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and operational best practices.
• Experience leading cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, or modernization projects.
• Solid understanding of IT service management, incident management, change management, and operational governance.
• Experience managing technology vendors, managed service providers, and outsourced support teams.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, infrastructure hardening, and regulatory requirements within financial services is preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.
• Experience supporting mission-critical environments with high availability and resilience requirements.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Azure, ITIL, VMware, CISSP, or equivalent would be advantageous.
• Excellent commands in Chinese and English.