Senior Director of IT - Cheshire, CT

Lane Construction is one of America’s leading construction companies, specializing in large, complex civil infrastructure. For 135 years, it has contributed to the development of the country’s transportation systems including the Interstate Highway System and a vast network of roads, bridges, airports, metros, and railways. Lane specializes in mobility, tunneling, and water resources to address sustainable development and climate change adaptation challenges.

Responsibilities

• Defines and executes Lane’s IT strategy and multi-year technology roadmap, translating business priorities and construction operations needs into actionable initiatives, programs, and measurable outcomes.
• Provides strategic IT leadership for Lane by aligning technology priorities with business needs and parent company standards, while leading enterprise systems integration across ERP, project management, collaboration, data, security, and field tools through governance and execution discipline.
• Partners with executive leadership, business functions, and project teams to identify technology-enabled improvements, influence adoption, and build a customer-focused IT culture grounded in business outcomes.
• Leads major IT programs and technology projects from business case through execution, ensuring clear scope, governance, milestones, stakeholder engagement, change management, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Leads the implementation, integration, optimization, and ongoing management of enterprise applications, including ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or comparable systems, as well as HRIS, CRM, project management, and collaboration platforms.
• Leads cloud architecture and infrastructure modernization initiatives from strategy through implementation, partnering with project teams to improve scalability, reliability, performance, and cost effectiveness.
• Leads infrastructure, hardware, asset, procurement, and lifecycle planning while staying closely connected to implementation timelines, field needs, vendor performance, and operational readiness.
• Leads cybersecurity strategy, risk management, and compliance execution, working directly with internal teams, risk, audit, and parent company stakeholders to implement controls, address vulnerabilities, and meet industry standards.
• Sets the direction for IT service management (ITSM) and stays engaged in service delivery to improve support quality, operational consistency, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Directs collaboration, communication, and end-user technology platforms, ensuring solutions are effectively implemented, adopted, supported, and measured against performance, availability, and service expectations.
• Guides data architecture, database administration, reporting, and business intelligence capabilities to support timely decision-making, operational visibility, and effective project controls.
• Owns IT budget, investment planning, vendor governance, and contract performance, ensuring technology spend supports strategic priorities, delivery commitments, service quality, and cost efficiency.
• Builds and leads a high-performing IT organization by developing team capability, mentoring leaders, managing performance, strengthening project delivery discipline, and fostering accountability and continuous improvement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required. Master’s degree (MBA or related) preferred.
• Certifications: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) preferred. Professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, or CompTIA Security+ preferred.
• Employment Conditions: 15+ years of IT experience. Experience leading enterprise-wide technology strategies, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with regulatory and data protection frameworks, such as GDPR.
• Knowledge of industry frameworks, including TOGAF, ITIL, COBIT, and ISO standards.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing enterprise ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or comparable systems is required.
• Strong experience leading project management, implementation planning, cross-functional alignment, and execution of enterprise technology initiatives is required.

Physical Requirements

• Employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must be able to use fingers to grasp, move and manipulate small objects.
• The employee must have the ability to sit at a computer terminal for extended periods.
• The employee is regularly required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• The employee must have the ability to speak clearly so listeners can understand and understand the speech of another person.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and will occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• The work environment will consist of low levels of noise (i.e., typical office).

Lane Construction offers a comprehensive benefits package with an excellent opportunity to grow and be part of one of the most respected names in the construction industry. Lane is an Equal Opportunity Employer.