About the job

Company Description

A privately held energy company headquartered in Abu Dhabi is developing a large-scale LNG export terminal in Alaska, together with the associated marine, pipeline and administrative infrastructure. The project is in its development phase, with the corporate structure, project delivery organisation and support functions being built up from a small core team. The IT Director will be the first and only senior IT appointment and will design the company's technology function from a near-blank base, covering both the Abu Dhabi corporate office and the US project organisation.

Job Description

• Define and own the IT strategy, architecture and roadmap for the corporate entity and the project organisation.
• Build the core corporate IT stack from scratch: identity and access management, cloud environment, collaboration and document management, endpoint management, networking and telephony across two geographies.
• Select and implement business systems — ERP/finance, HR, procurement, document control and project controls — and manage the vendors delivering them.
• Establish cybersecurity: policy, governance, threat monitoring, incident response and disaster recovery, at a standard appropriate to critical energy infrastructure and to a US-regulated environment.
• Set up IT for remote and construction-site operations in Alaska: connectivity in a low-infrastructure, extreme-climate location, site networks, field devices and support model.
• Own the IT budget, capex/opex planning and the contracts with MSPs, integrators and software vendors.
• Ensure compliance with data protection and data residency obligations across UAE and US jurisdictions, and support the company's obligations to lenders, partners and regulators on IT and cyber matters.
• Build and lead the IT team as the organisation scales through FID and into construction.