Chief Information Officer

Our client is a specialist organization in Electricity and Natural Gas focusing on advisory, analytics, and custom behind-the-meter infrastructure, seeking a CIO who will lead the company's IT growth and modernization, leading Salesforce efforts, Databricks Analytics & Reporting, and CyberSecurity initiatives.
Reporting to the CEO, the CIO will own day-to-day IT operations, infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity across corporate and operating sites. This is a high-visibility, owner-mindset role with access to the CEO, executive team, and PE sponsor.
The CIO is a hands-on candidate with end-to-end responsibility for running, securing, and improving the Company's IT estate. The role is hands-on and pragmatic in equal measure: personally leading vendor coordination and transition workstreams in the initial build phase and operating a lean environment supported by managed service providers in steady state.
Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in the following areas:
Define and execute a target-state application architecture that consolidates overlapping systems inherited through acquisition, including several CRM platforms, with Salesforce as the designated enterprise CRM.
Lead selection, implementation, and adoption of core enterprise platforms — Salesforce as the enterprise CRM, ERP and financial systems, project controls, and contract lifecycle management.
Own the Salesforce platform end to end — data model, account and site hierarchy, product- and opportunity-based workflow, quoting and approvals, reporting, integrations to ERP and the enterprise data platform, and the release, administration, and support discipline required to sustain it.
Drive Salesforce adoption across every service line, office, and acquired brand, migrating remaining commercial activity off inherited CRM platforms so the company operates from a single pipeline of record.
Establish data governance and master data management — particularly customer, account, site, and asset hierarchies spanning tens of thousands of accounts across multiple legacy systems — so that reporting reconciles across brands.
Deliver executive dashboards and self-service reporting for pipeline, backlog, project performance, portfolio megawatts, retention, and margin.
Build, staff, and lead the enterprise cybersecurity function, including the security architecture and security analyst roles currently being established.
Implement a formal security program mapped to a recognized framework such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls, with a documented maturity baseline and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
Own identity and access management, endpoint and email security, vulnerability and patch management, logging and monitoring, and incident response — including tested playbooks and regular tabletop exercises.
Manage third-party and vendor security risk, and lead responses to client security
Partner with Engineering, Asset Management, and Commercial leadership to secure and modernize operational technology environments, including SCADA and telemetry platforms, metering, and communications supporting real-time market operations.
Establish network segmentation, remote-access, monitoring, and resilience standards for OT environments while respecting engineering ownership of control system design and configuration.
Ensure the technology supporting the 24/7 network operations center and market-facing scheduling and settlement functions meets availability, redundancy, and recovery requirements appropriate to real-time operations.
Qualifications

Bachelors degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or business
15+ years of progressive information technology experience including 5 years as a CIO, VP of IT or similar in a multi site operations
Experience in energy, utilities, power or industrial infrastructure
Any familiarity with retail energy, SCADA or metering operations is a plus.

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