Chief Information Officer (CIO)

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced leader to take up the role of CIO for our client who operates in the gaming and entertainment industry out of Johannesburg. For applications and enquiries email

Requirements:

University Degree in Computer Science or similar (non-negotiable)

Master Degree will be advantageous

10 – 15 years applicable experience

Responsibilities:

• Participate in strategic and operational governance processes as a member of the senior management team.
• Lead IT strategic and operational planning to achieve goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT infrastructure, networks, support, communications and wagering systems across the group.
• Develop and maintain an appropriate IT organisational structure that supports the needs of the business.
• Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• Assess and make recommendations on the improvement or re-engineering of the IT infrastructure, communications, wagering systems and support.
• Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations.
• Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of IT, Communications and Wagering systems performance.
• Provide leadership, guidance and advice to direct reports and division.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, please regard your application as unsuccessful.