CIO - Contract - Fortune 500 - Kuala Lumpur

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CIO - Contract - Fortune 500 - Kuala Lumpur

Edelway Ltd is a global IT Executive Staffing Consultancy.
We are urgently looking senior exciting and challenging contract opportunity for one of our best client, a large global multinational (Fortune 500) with HQ in the USA.

The role will be based in Kuala Lumpur with some travels to the other national branches;
Part time can also be discussed for the next coming months. This will be a long term relation and we are particularly interested to hear from local candidates or keen to relocate to KL for the next years.

Our global Client is rapidly expanding in South East Asia and you will be responsible for the Architecture, set up and deployment of the new IT Infrastructure in Malaysia. The role encompasses managing future IT professionals, managing Data interfaces with the USA, Infrastructure, Storage and Backup systems and services, ERP interface with other countries (Oracle Applications).

You will report to the Head of Operations in South East Asia and with dotted line report to the head of IT in the USA.

The position will oversee all phases from initial solution design to procurement, setup and deployment. In this capacity you will act as a partner with other IT Leaders in order to design infrastructure plans meeting Customers' needs and insuring those solutions meet Operational and Architectural standards.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide leadership/IT strategy
Set up infrastructure throughout initially: 1 HQ and 2 branches in Malaysia
Key partner for the HQ, assisting in gathering requirements and understanding business needs and ability to translate them into IT solutions
Deliver high availability services in a multi-site Data Center environment
Understanding of current IT Security and Compliance standards and requirements and ability to translate them into reasonable and effective policies and procedures as well as ability to insure IT decisions meet and satisfy these standards
Ability to manage an IT budget
Ability to manage, transform and use business datas provided by the branches
Ability to manage diverse Data Center environments, including leveraging world class solutions and operational processes to deliver quality customer service and to meet operational objectives
Proven ability to manage vendor relationships, including understanding cost and support models

Qualifications
Previous proven successful experience setting up IT/Infrastructure for a global company (European or USA)
Experience setting up an IT department with various national branches reporting into the system. Experience in delivering infrastructure for branches
7 to 10 years of supervisory management experience in an IT-related discipline such as network engineering, data center operations, or open systems
Experience working with enterprise architecture & infrastructure platforms
Strong working understanding of network, hardware, storage and operating system concepts
Experience of application security and compliance related requirements defined by and ability to articulate them in terms of impact on Business and IT decisions
Knowledge of Oracle Applications (Finance) would be appreciated.
Exceptional talent for creatively utilizing technology, people and processes to analyze and solve unique business problems in a cost-effective manner
English speaking is required; Malay will be a strong plus

If this sounds like your next challenge send us your CV and we will contact you to discuss it in more details. Your application will remain confidential.

Keywords: CIO, Director, Head of, infrastructure, hardware, Malaysia, Malay, Servers, Oracle, data center, IT strategy, enterprise architecture

Start date
ASAP/Urgent
From
Edelway
Published at
27.02.2013
Project ID:
495911
Contract type
Freelance
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