Director of Information Technology

Title : IT Director

Full Time

Location: Hybrid-Chicago

Our Company

Goldfinch Asset Management is a family office offering its clients investment, financial, administrative, and concierge support.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced IT Director to play a dual leadership role across our organization. This individual will be leading complex infrastructure operations and business application projects while also serving as the founding technical lead for a new consulting practice.

This role serves as a hands-on senior technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and securing enterprise-scale infrastructure and application environments across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud platforms. The position leads modernization initiatives spanning servers, virtualization, networking, storage, security, and core business systems while ensuring high availability, resilience, and performance. Acting as an escalation-level engineer and trusted advisor, the role drives architecture standards, cybersecurity strategy, compliance alignment, and long-term technology roadmaps. In addition to hands-on technical leadership, this position mentors engineers, supports client and leadership engagement, and contributes to solution design, service development, and strategic growth initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement enterprise infrastructure across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments
• Lead server, virtualization, storage, networking, and cloud modernization initiatives
• Architect high-availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
• Establish technical standards and documentation practices
• Lead deployment and integration of enterprise business systems (ERP, CRM, line-of-business applications)
• Design secure and scalable application architectures
• Support identity integration, access controls, and system interoperability
• Provide Tier 3 / escalation-level support across infrastructure, business solutions, and security domains
• Serve as senior technical advisor to leadership and clients
• Implement and optimize firewalls, EDR/XDR, SIEM, IAM, vulnerability management, and data protection solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and help scale technical operations
• Contribute to long-term technology roadmap and strategic planning
• Define and develop cybersecurity service offerings, standards, and delivery methodologies
• Establish tooling strategy, vendor partnerships, and technical best practices
• Conduct security assessments, remediation planning, and incident response
• Participate in client discovery, solution design, and proposal development

Requirements and Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Information Technology roles with emphasis in enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, or infrastructure engineering
• Experience leading complex technical projects end-to-end
• Strong client-facing communication and solution design capabilities
• Ability to operate independently in high-responsibility and growth-focused environments
• Entrepreneurial mindset with hands-on execution ability
• Demonstrated expertise across network security, cloud platforms, identity management, and enterprise systems
• Preferred certifications: CISSP, Security+, CEH, or equivalent.

Role Offers

• Direct impact on service development and technical direction
• High-level autonomy and decision-making authority
• Foundational leadership across a broad range of technology offerings
• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives
• Health, Vison, Dental, 401(k), and other customary benefits

DISCLAIMER:

The list under Duties and Responsibilities is not exhaustive but is merely the most accurate list for the current job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description and to require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change.