Director of Digital Platforms

Egon Zehnder is one of the world’s foremost leadership and talent consultancies. Our firm provides senior-level executive search, board search, advisory, CEO succession, family business advisory, as well as leadership assessment and development to the world’s most respected organizations. With more than 600 consultants in 71 offices and 37 countries, we work closely with public and private corporations, family-owned enterprises, and nonprofit and government agencies to help them define great leadership in the face of changing economic conditions, emerging opportunities, and evolving business goals.

At Egon Zehnder, you have the opportunity to deliver digital transformation initiatives across the globe for the organization. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a “Best Place to Work.” We are 2500+ employees across the globe and still growing. Come along and grow with us!

Egon Zehnder is investing heavily in our continued transformation to reinforce and build our position as the de-facto global leader in leadership advisory services. A critical component of our transformation includes the deployment of modern, seamless technology platform that empowers us to serve our clients, grow as individuals, and connect with our global community as One Firm. Our undertaking is a strategic modernization of our principal database and workflow engines.

These systems currently serve as the backbone for all client engagements, candidate relationships, internal collaboration, and proprietary data in the firm.

We are looking for an experienced Digital Platforms Director with the capability to build and maintain a best-in-class digital platform to enable the Firm’s proprietary software tools and hosted third-party SaaS offerings. The Digital Platforms

Director will develop and execute the strategy for the digital ecosystem aligned to the Firm’s Executive & Board Search and Leadership Advisory service offerings.

The Digital Platforms Director will be responsible for the following:

• Architect, manage and coordinate all technical deliverables for the Firm’s Client, Candidate and Colleague Portal platform

• Manage the continuous improvement and development of the firm’s software engineering capabilities across its digital ecosystem; including but not limited to end-user facing applications, Back-office digital services and systems, re-usable software development components and libraries, APIs and Microservices - all aligned to the technology standards provided by Digital IT’s Network, Operations and Security teams.

• Create and/or collaborate on enterprise architecture, technical strategy, solutions architecture and technical reference materials.

• Liaise with senior business stakeholders in the accurate and transparent capture of programme and project level requirements to ensure alignment with the Firm’s strategic technical roadmaps

• Drive broader coordination and collaboration across the Egon Zehnder’s Digital IT landscape; liaising with Cloud Ops, Cyber Security, Enterprise Data, Functional and Digital IT Teams to ensure all Enterprise software, services and processes are aligned in furthering the overall scope and capabilities of the Firm’s digital ecosystem.

• Maintain and evolve the delivery and operational support models for all proprietary software development and third-party tools within the digital ecosystem.

• People management of high performing globally located technical teams.

• Delivery orchestration of multiple concurrent projects developed by globally located cross functional teams

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Minimum 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, technical management, solution delivery and RunOps.

• Extensive experience of Cloud-native software engineering, mobile, web technologies and industries.

• Strong preference for experience within the Professional Services industry

Experience

ESSENTIAL

• 5-10 years of experience leveraging Umbraco and/or other enterprise content management systems (CMS) is a global, enterprise environment leveraging enterprise design systems

• 5-10 years experience building applications in a Microsoft Azure environment build web and mobile responsive applications

• 3-5 years of experience leveraging AI supporting the software development lifecycle

• Extensive experience of building and managing globally dispersed, multi-disciplined software engineering teams.

• Extensive experience in managing the delivery and operation of web and native mobile applications, back-office digital systems and services in a global, cloud-native enterprise environment.

• Ideally Microsoft Azure, but transferable/comparable experience in other platforms such as AWS and GCP considered.

• Excellent people management and staff development experience.

• Strong understanding of API and Microservices based architecture.

• Strong understanding of Security-by-design concepts and current secure engineering best practices and standards.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the demonstrable ability to gain the confidence, respect and trust of team members, peers, and senior leaders through influence

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate internally as well as externally with remote locations, external partners and clients.

• Experience identifying, assessing and working with external vendors to build, operate and transfer custom software solutions into enterprise cloud environments.

• Ability to work independently but also to lead in a matrixed environment.

• Proven ability to exercise sound judgment and strong problem-solving skills

• Proven project and time management skills. Must be resourceful in developing alternative solutions and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Proven ability to work well under pressure, juggle tasks and work efficiently against deadlines

• The ability to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information and thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually demanding and service-oriented environment.

ADVANTAGEOUS

• Experience in the development and operation of Content Management and/or Digital Asset Management systems.

• Experience working within modern data environments, concepts and technologies (e.g. Data Lake, Data Factory).

• Experience of modern software development languages such as .NET, JAVA and JavaScript.

• Scrum and Agile software development experience.

• Experience working with Azure DevOps tools (work item management, queries, boards etc.)

• Recruitment, candidate screening and interviewing experience

Benefits

At Egon Zehnder, we operate as one unified team with expertise across industries, functions, and geographies. Our organization can be described as high-performing and collaborative, combined with a caring and respectful culture. Employee safety, well-being, and engagement are top priorities and at the core of our culture. We are proud to build relationships and live our Values through our Employee Resource Groups and initiatives. We have global programs focused on:

• Wellbeing,
• Sustainability,
• EZ+ (LGBTQ+),
• Neurodiversity, etc.

Be part of an international, highly professional, dynamic, and close-knit team! In addition to a competitive salary, we offer an annual performance-based bonus to reward our employees for their hard work and dedication. We offer additional paid holidays between Christmas and New Year, allowing our employees to spend time with their families and loved ones during the festive season. Our private medical care package ensures that our employees have access to high-quality medical care when they need it most. We understand the importance of work-life balance, and our flexible hybrid work model allows our employees to work from home or in the office, depending on their needs and preferences. The policy varies by country and is subject to change by Egon Zehnder at any time. Our cafeteria provides a variety of meal options for our employees to choose from, ensuring that they have access to healthy and delicious snacks throughout the day.