Director Active

 HIRING ALERT – “Director Active ”

Location: Islamabad

Experience: 15-20 years

Full-Time | On-Site

Sky47 is looking for highly skilled and technically proficient “Director Active” to join our expanding team.

Key Responsibilities:

A. Strategic Technology Leadership

•       Own and continuously evolve the organization's multi-year IT strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities and responsiveness to a fast-changing technology landscape

•       Serve as a technology advisor to executive leadership — shaping investment decisions, surfacing risks, and championing the role of technology as a strategic business enabler

•       Lead the organization's approach to technology adoption, including AI, cloud-native platforms, and infrastructure modernization, with a clear view of where to invest, partner, or build

•       Establish and maintain IT governance standards, operating models, and policy frameworks that drive accountability, compliance, and operational consistency across all domains.

B.  Infrastructure & Platform Governance

•       Hold accountability for the availability, utilization, resilience, and evolution of the organization's core infrastructure platforms — data center, compute, storage, and networking

•       Ensure the infrastructure estate is positioned to meet current and future business demands, with a clear modernization roadmap and disciplined approach to lifecycle management

•       Own the organization's DR and BCP posture, ensuring readiness is regularly tested, documented, and aligned with defined business continuity requirements

•       Drive infrastructure automation and operational efficiency as organizational priorities, enabling teams to scale without proportional headcount growth.

C.  Cloud & AI Infrastructure

•       Own the organization's cloud strategy and platform posture across public, private, and hybrid environments, ensuring cost efficiency, security, and alignment with business workload requirements

•       Ensure cloud and AI platforms are designed, operated and governed with appropriate security controls, cost management practices, and performance standards — positioning the organization to deliver cloud and AI services reliably at scale

•       Partner with relevant product, sales and marketing teams to anticipate infrastructure requirements for cloud/AI services, translating business ambitions into platform capabilities

•       Stay ahead of the AI infrastructure landscape to advise on platform choices, vendor partnerships, and emerging capabilities relevant to the organization's AI roadmap.

D.  Enterprise IT & Digital Workplace

•       Ensure the organization's enterprise IT environment — covering employee-facing systems, business applications, and collaboration tools — is reliable, secure, and continuously improving in its ability to support organizational productivity

•       Hold accountability for the performance and lifecycle of enterprise platforms including ITSM/ITAM/ITOM, ERP, CRM, and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of the business

•       Oversee IT Service Management standards and service desk performance, with a focus on user experience, resolution quality, and measurable service outcomes

•       Champion AI-assisted productivity tools, platform integrations and digital workplace initiatives that enhance how employees work and how IT services are delivered.

E.  Security, Compliance & Risk

•       Own the organization's IT security posture and risk management framework, ensuring a consistent and comprehensive approach to protection across all infrastructure, cloud, AI, and enterprise IT environments

•       Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory standards and industry frameworks, and represent IT in organizational risk, audit, and governance forums

•       Drive a culture of security-first thinking across the IT organization, including accountability for timely vulnerability management, access governance, and incident preparedness

•       Hold accountability for data protection and privacy standards as they relate to IT-managed platforms and AI systems handling sensitive workloads.

F.  People, Vendors, Financial & Stakeholder Stewardship

•       Build, lead, empower and develop a high-performing IT leadership team, investing in their growth and holding clear performance expectations

•       Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the IT organization, and act as a visible champion for IT talent and capability development

•       Own the consolidated IT budget (CAPEX & OPEX) across all domains, driving financial discipline, transparent reporting, and active cost optimization without compromising service quality

•       Manage strategic relationships with technology vendors, service providers, key partners and stakeholders — ensuring contractual commitments are met, partnerships deliver value, and the organization's interests are protected

•       Maintain a clear view of the IT talent landscape and build succession planning and capability development into the DNA of the organization

What We’re Looking For:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer systems/computer engineering, or a related engineering/technical field.

Minimum 15-20 years in IT with at least 8 years in senior leadership overseeing multiple mission critical technology domains across infrastructure, cloud and enterprise ecosystem

Technology leadership or management: ITIL v4, PMP, COBIT, TOGAF etc.

Technical credentials (cloud, infrastructure, security) are valued and demonstrate domain credibility, but are not mandatory at this level