<p>ICON is looking for a Senior Director of Information Technology and Systems to build and own a unified technology strategy across a fast-growing, multi-division company. You will lead ICON's corporate IT, infrastructure, and information security functions, ensuring our technology stack drives business innovation, protects our systems and data, and scales with the company.</p> <p>ICON operates across Construction, Technology, and Public Sector divisions, and builds robotic construction systems that are themselves connected, networked products. That makes this role broader than a typical corporate IT seat. You will define the boundary between our enterprise environment and our product environment, set the strategy for commercial and government-regulated work, and scale support through automation and smart architecture rather than headcount ratios as ICON grows significantly over the next two years.</p> <p>You'll be a senior voice in executive decisions about technology. When leadership weighs a major choice, such as moving infrastructure on-premises or extending government-grade controls across the company, you'll lay out the cost, resourcing, risk, and second- and third-order impacts so the decision is made with full context, and you'll push back when the tradeoffs warrant it.</p> <p>This role is a full-time, on-site position based at ICON's Austin, TX HQ Campus and will report to the President.</p> <h3>RESPONSIBILITIES</h3> <p><strong>Strategy and leadership</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and develop the IT, infrastructure, and security teams, including hiring and developing team leads, setting operating principles, and defining service level agreements.</li> <li>Own the multi-year roadmap for AI tooling and core digital infrastructure, aligned to ICON's divisional strategies and growth plans.</li> <li>Advise executive leadership on major technology decisions, presenting cost, resourcing, security, and organizational impacts in decision terms.</li> <li>Lead change management for company-wide technology shifts, including potential expansion of government-regulated environments across the business.</li> <li>Define clear ownership models for systems and roles that span corporate and divisional needs, deciding what lives in central IT versus within the teams it supports.</li> <li>Deliver data-driven insights and technology performance reporting (ticket trends, automation impact, cost, and risk) to executive leadership on a regular basis.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Corporate IT and infrastructure</strong></p> <ul> <li>Oversee all corporate IT functions, including end-user support, device management and procurement, SaaS platforms, identity and access management, and enterprise system integrations.</li> <li>Scale IT support efficiently as the company grows, using automation and self-service to keep support ratios lean.</li> <li>Partner with People and Recruiting on hiring forecasts so equipment, access, and onboarding are ready for every new hire.</li> <li>Oversee cloud and on-premises infrastructure across multiple regions, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.</li> <li>Guide build-versus-buy and SaaS-versus-on-premises decisions, making ownership and support costs explicit before commitments are made.</li> <li>Lead vendor management, licensing, and technology procurement to maximize value and minimize risk.</li> <li>Partner with data and analytics teams to ensure enterprise systems and infrastructure support cross-functional business intelligence needs.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security and compliance</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own ICON's information security posture across corporate and product environments, including network segmentation between enterprise systems and connected product systems.</li> <li>Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks and standards, including those required for government contracting, and oversee secure environments such as virtual desktop infrastructure for government work.</li> <li>Demonstrate security and compliance credibility to public sector stakeholders, including government program partners.</li> </ul> <h3>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS</h3> <ul> <li>12+ years of progressive experience leading technology or information organizations, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role overseeing multiple teams through managers or team leads.</li> <li>5+ years of experience leading technology teams in regulatory complex environments.</li> <li>Proven track record managing corporate IT at scale, including enterprise systems, end-user computing, and IT operations, through a period of significant company growth.</li> <li>Experience overseeing infrastructure and security teams, with working knowledge of network segmentation, cloud platforms, on-premises infrastructure, and the shared responsibility model.</li> <li>Proficiency with cybersecurity frameworks and compliance requirements.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to influence executive decisions, build business cases, and push back with data.</li> <li>Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.</li> </ul> <h3>PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE</h3> <ul> <li>Experience supporting or working within a government contracting environment, including standing up or expanding regulated enclaves.</li> <li>Experience securing and supporting connected products (IoT, industrial controls, or robotics) alongside a corporate environment.</li> <li>Track record of using automation to scale IT