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**Experienced Full Stack Director of Information Systems – Data Strategy, Business Intelligence, and Analytics for a Leading Citrus Cooperative**

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2025-11-03
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for driving digital transformation and innovation in the citrus industry? Do you have a proven track record of successfully implementing data-driven strategies, business intelligence, and analytics solutions that drive business growth and improvement? If so, we want to hear from you! At Florida's Natural, we're on a mission to revolutionize the citrus industry by harnessing the power of data and technology. As a Director of Information Systems, you'll play a critical role in shaping our data strategy, business intelligence, and analytics capabilities, and driving our organization towards a more data-driven future. **About Us** Florida's Natural is a farmer-owned cooperative of over 1,000 citrus growers and 800 employees, dedicated to bringing the highest-quality citrus products to the homes of America. With a rich history dating back to 1933, we've grown into the largest citrus cooperative in Florida and the second-largest orange juice producer in the country. Our commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction has earned us a reputation as a leader in the citrus industry. **Job Summary** As a Director of Information Systems, you'll be responsible for leading our data strategy, business intelligence, and analytics initiatives, and driving our organization towards a more data-driven future. You'll work closely with our enterprise architecture, information systems, infrastructure and operations, security, project management office (PMO) peers, and business unit leaders to implement best practices and transform our enterprise systems into highly reliable, elastically scalable, modern cloud environments. **Key Responsibilities** * Demonstrate strategic vision, anticipating future trends and incorporating knowledge of successful information technology to drive business growth and improvement * Collaborate with leadership peers, business, and operating stakeholders to establish direction, solutions requirements, roadmaps (priority, timing), and funding requirements, aligned with Company strategic plans and financial positions * Maintain technical depth and breadth to establish technical direction and best practices, credibly leading teams on platforms, practices, processes, and enterprise-grade approaches and patterns * Develop and implement data governance, master data management, ETL, warehousing, and analytics practices, processes, and platforms in concert with the information systems team and with the Oracle Fusion Data Model, Azure Data and Analytics, and secure data storage solutions * Lead sound data analysis and requirements definition processes and competencies * Implement and maintain structured data discovery, classification, and security capabilities, employing monitoring and compliance tools * Develop the scope of work, specifications, required deliverables, timing, and measures of success for both internal (project artifacts) and external initiatives (contract documents) * Partner with the IT Project Management Office for financial management, resource planning, portfolio, and project governance, project charter/requirements analysis, intake, and prioritization, status reporting, and business change readiness and management * Implement a data service bus model, and continuous integration / continuous development capabilities for improved data platform / systems agility and resiliency * Develop data systems monitoring, quality assurance, and security by design practices and competencies **Essential Qualifications** * Bachelor's degree, preferably in engineering, computer science, data science, or a similar discipline from an accredited institution * Minimum 10 years' experience, including enterprise-scale, cloud data initiatives, and formal program leadership, ideally in a transformation environment * Broadly knowledgeable at moderate technical depth and with information technology architecture, patterns, and platforms, including hybrid cloud, SaaS solutions, and the ability to map solution requirements to the right pattern or platform, establish best process/practice, and to develop organizational, team, and technical capabilities * Exceptional leadership skills and experience operating within formal project management frameworks and processes * Comfortable bi-modally improving legacy solutions while timely building and migrating to the future through a portfolio of significant, parallel initiatives * Exhibits an information-based, decision-making mindset, strong analytical and technical capabilities to assess and drive process improvements and solve complex problems * Senior IT leadership, motivated to inclusively collaborate with and serve others in achieving outcomes * Adept at stakeholder communications from the shop floor to the boardroom * Experience with Microsoft Azure Data and Analytics platforms, Power BI, Power Platform Dataverse, and Common Data Services, SSRA, SSAS, SSMS, DevSecOps principles, and hybrid cloud environments * Experience implementing a data integration service 'bus' or hub with Azure services or products like Oracle Integration Cloud (preferred), Informatica, Mulesoft, or Boomi * Seasoned data architecture and data modeling ability * Ability to clearly articulate a vision, enroll others in the strategy, and lead teams via influence through ambiguity and complexity to a new way of working and to support program, process, and organizational improvements across the organization * Natural curiosity to learn, ask questions, identify mistaken assumptions, and bring an open-minded approach. A high level of outcome-oriented initiative * Ability to manage fully remote teams, on and offshore * Critical thinking and business acumen * Capable of representing the breadth of IT in any forum, with aspiration and capability to ascend to the senior-most leadership role **Preferred Requirements** * Experience with Oracle Fusion and Oracle Integration Cloud implementation and adoption * Master's degree in business administration or similar from an accredited institution * Minimum of 5 years senior IT leadership experience at like or greater scale and complexity * Experience with IT governance and compliance controls and procedures, and with frameworks like SOX, COBIT, and NIST 800 **What We Offer** * Competitive salary * Medical, dental, and vision benefits * 401k * PTO * And more! **About Our Culture** At Florida's Natural, we're committed to creating a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We believe in empowering our employees to take ownership of their work, and to drive positive change in our organization. If you're a motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about driving digital transformation and innovation in the citrus industry, we want to hear from you! **How to Apply** If this role sounds like a perfect fit, don't hesitate. Apply today and let's build the future together. Apply To This Job **We're an Equal Opportunity Employer** All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Florida's Natural Growers also maintains affirmative action programs to implement our equal employment opportunity policy. Apply for this job  

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