Chief Information Officer with A/E Industry Background

Position: Chief Information Officer(CIO) with A/E Industry Background

Location: Indianapolis, IN (on-site)

Duration: Full Time

As a member of the executive leadership team, the CIO will ensure technology investments support business growth, operational excellence, employee engagement, innovation, and exceptional client service. The CIO serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and is responsible for aligning technology priorities with enterprise objectives while ensuring a secure, reliable, scalable, and customer-focused technology environment.

Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Executive Leadership

• Develop and execute an enterprise technology strategy aligned with business goals, growth, operational performance, and client service.
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, cybersecurity, digital transformation, data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
• Establish a multi-year technology roadmap with clear priorities, budgets, timelines, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead technology governance and participate in strategic planning, acquisitions, and enterprise transformation initiatives.

IT Operations & Infrastructure

• Oversee infrastructure, networks, cloud environments, hardware, software, telecommunications, collaboration platforms, and IT support.
• Ensure technology systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and responsive to employees across all locations.
• Direct business continuity, disaster recovery, data backup, system availability, and incident-response planning.
• Manage technology standards, vendors, consultants, contracts, licensing, and service-level performance.

Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance

• Lead the enterprise cybersecurity strategy, including risk assessment, access management, threat prevention, monitoring, incident response, and employee awareness.
• Establish policies and controls that protect company, employee, client, and project information.
• Maintain alignment with applicable frameworks and requirements, including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, and Zero Trust principles.
• Partner with Legal, Risk Management, Human Resources, and business leaders on privacy, regulatory, contractual, government, and cyber-insurance requirements.
• Regularly report the company’s cybersecurity posture, vulnerabilities, mitigation efforts, and risk exposure to executive leadership.

Business Applications & Digital Transformation

• Oversee the strategy, governance, integration, optimization, and lifecycle of enterprise applications and specialized AEC technologies.
• Partner with business leaders to streamline workflows, reduce manual processes, improve system adoption, and increase efficiency.
• Guide digital transformation initiatives that improve employee experience, project delivery, decision-making, quality, and client service.
• Ensure technology implementations include effective change management, communication, training, and adoption plans.

Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

• Establish an enterprise data strategy covering quality, ownership, accessibility, security, consistency, retention, and appropriate use.
• Expand business intelligence, executive reporting, dashboards, analytics, and KPI capabilities.
• Lead the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence through governance, policies, controls, training, risk assessment, and approved use cases.
• Identify high-value opportunities for analytics, automation, and AI while protecting confidential information.

Technology Solutions Group / IT Consulting Practice

• Provide executive oversight of the Technology Solutions Group as a revenue-generating IT consulting practice.
• Establish objectives for revenue growth, profitability, utilization, backlog, client service, delivery performance, and market positioning.
• Partner with operations, business development, and practice leaders to develop services, identify opportunities, and support proposals.
• Monitor financial and operational performance, project quality, client satisfaction, pipeline, and resource capacity.
• Guide staffing, recruiting, skills development, and resource planning while maintaining alignment with enterprise technology and security standards.

Financial & Portfolio Management

• Develop and manage enterprise technology operating and capital budgets.
• Oversee Technology Solutions Group revenue, profitability, pricing, utilization, margins, and financial reporting.
• Evaluate investments based on business value, total cost of ownership, operational impact, cybersecurity risk, and expected return.
• Maintain a prioritized portfolio of technology initiatives and report on status, cost, risk, benefits, and outcomes.
• Optimize technology spending through vendor management, system consolidation, contract improvements, and technical-debt reduction.

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop technology leaders and their teams.
• Establish clear roles, goals, accountability, succession plans, workforce plans, and professional-development opportunities.
• Foster a service-oriented culture centered on collaboration, responsiveness, transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Build strong partnerships with operational leaders and employees to understand needs and improve the technology experience.
• Determine the appropriate mix of internal expertise, centralized resources, external partners, managed services, and consultants.
• Monitor technology and workforce trends affecting the AEC and professional-services industries.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible technology leadership experience, including significant leadership experience within a complex, multi-office organization.
• Experience leading managers, directors, and enterprise technology functions.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise technology strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Experience leading IT operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, data governance, and large-scale technology initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of cloud environments, enterprise architecture, systems integration, business continuity, disaster recovery, and information-security practices.
• Experience leading or overseeing revenue-generating technology consulting, professional services, or client-delivery functions with accountability for revenue, profitability, utilization, client satisfaction, and delivery performance.
• Experience managing technology budgets, vendor relationships, contracts, project portfolios, procurement, and organizational change.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technology issues, risks, and recommendations to executives and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams.
• Understanding of CAD, BIM, GIS, design, modeling, visualization, reality-capture, and other technologies used in the AEC industry is preferred.
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, or similar standards is preferred.