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Role: Chief of Staff – Cloud Infrastructure
Location: Chicago preferred – hybrid 3 days/week onsite
Contract to hire: September start
Job Summary:
Our client, a Global Financial Institution headquartered in Chicago, is seeking a strategic and operationally-minded Chief of Staff to support the Global Head of Cloud within Infrastructure. This role will serve as a trusted advisor, driving alignment across cloud infrastructure initiatives, managing cross-functional priorities, and ensuring operational excellence in a fast-paced, enterprise-scale environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning & Execution
- Serve as the right hand to the Head of Global Cloud & Infrastructure, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, project execution, and enterprise objective
- Partner with leadership to define and execute the cloud infrastructure strategy.
- Drive governance for cloud and infrastructure programs, including budget oversight, delivery cadence, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.
- Drive alignment across engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams including governance for cloud and infrastructure programs, including budget oversight, delivery cadence, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.
- Implement delivery health reporting, KPI tracking, and executive dashboards for program transparency.
Cloud & infrastructure Strategy
- Oversee design and delivery of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, ensuring alignment with banking security, compliance (FFIEC, PCI-DSS, SOX), and resiliency standards.
- Partner with enterprise architecture teams to define cloud reference architectures, migration blueprints, and technology standards.
- Champion infrastructure automation, DevOps/DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code adoption
Program & Project Oversight
- Oversee high-impact cloud transformation programs and ensure timely delivery including coordination across architecture, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and compliance teams to ensure seamless program delivery
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and remove roadblocks to execution.
- Track budgets, timelines, and resource allocation across cloud initiatives.
Operational Excellence
- Lead cadence of leadership meetings, including agenda setting, follow-ups, and action tracking.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools for executive visibility.
- Identify and implement process improvements across cloud operations.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a liaison between the Head of Cloud Infrastructure and internal/external stakeholders.
- Prepare executive-level communications, presentations, and briefings.
- Support talent development, team culture, and onboarding initiatives.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in technology strategy, cloud infrastructure, or program management within banking or highly regulated industry.
- Proven experience in a Chief of Staff, Technical Program Manager, or similar leadership support role.
- Proven experience leading enterprise cloud migrations and infrastructure modernization initiatives at scale.
- Strong understanding of banking technology, operational risk, security frameworks, and regulatory compliance.
- Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and enterprise IT environments.
- Exceptional communication, organizational, and analytical skills.
- Ability to influence without authority and manage multiple priorities.
- Relevant certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, PMP, TOGAF, ITIL) highly desirable.
Heitmeyer Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to minority status, gender, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.