Manager Information Technology (Server Administration)

At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. Our employees take pride in the work we do when disaster strikes, as well as all the days in between. We prioritize safety, offer volunteer opportunities, and provide competitive pay, comprehensive health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, and paid time off.

About the role

Lead a team responsible for a large-scale Windows and Linux server environment, supporting critical systems that power our business and serve our customers. Drive our hybrid cloud strategy, balancing cloud capabilities with a complex on-premises environment while providing leadership for Active Directory, identity services, resiliency, and infrastructure modernization efforts. This is an opportunity to influence both strategy and execution while leading a high-performing infrastructure team.

Responsibilities

• Perform all leadership duties including hiring, rewarding talent, fostering an inclusive and safe workplace, setting clear goals and expectations, providing performance feedback, developing improvement plans, addressing conflict, and identifying growth opportunities.
• Manage the lifecycle of products or services including maintenance, patching, and new version introductions.
• Lead and participate in technology planning processes to align priorities across IT services.
• Focus on outcomes and objectives and key results (OKRs) to deliver cost-effective, customer-driven technology solutions by developing long-term strategic relationships with customer and industry leaders.
• Develop solutions, scope, prioritization, and delivery of systems and functions in collaboration with business leaders.
• Ensure effective utilization of product group resources and timely, cost-effective delivery of solutions.
• Provide leadership for communication and implementation of new practices to increase organizational performance.
• Direct teams to ensure solutions meet customer needs and are appropriately prioritized.
• Leverage Sourcing department and manage vendor relationships to ensure quality services, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to service levels and contract terms.
• Engage in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy’s Values and help deliver on our Purpose.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.
• 8 years of professional experience.
• 3 years of supervisory experience or equivalent (e.g., project management, work direction, leadership in community or external organizations).
• Experience managing and executing solutions to diverse and complex business problems that enable business strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree.
• Agile methodology experience.

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• API Integration
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cloud Architectures
• Cloud Computing
• DevSecOps
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Software Testing
• Stakeholder Management
• System Migrations
• Systems Integration
• Vendor Management
• Leadership

Benefits

Alliant Energy offers a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

Pay

Pay Range: $106,000-$145,000. This position is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity, and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Support and foster a culture of belonging while demonstrating a strong commitment to equal employment opportunity. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a background check and a drug screen where applicable. Visa sponsorship is not supported.