Vice President IT - Edge Transformation and Services

Vice President It - Edge Transformation & Services

Eaton Corporation is seeking a Vice President IT - EDGE Transformation & Services to join our team. This position can be based at the following Eaton locations : Beachwood OH, Moon Township PA, Fort Worth TX, Raleigh NC, Southfield MI, or Milwaukee WI. Relocation within hirifong country is only offered to the Beachwood, OH location.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Vice President and CTO, this position will be at the forefront of our technological transformation, modernizing our capabilities into a one that is leveraging modern EDGE capabilities, unlocking access to new ways of working and capturing gains in experience, speed, and productivity. This role will be responsible for the strategy, vision, architecture, investment, and the primary driver of implementing / deploying AI forward Edge capabilities. These capabilities enable digital manufacturing and Physical AI across the entire Eaton ecosystem through contemporary technology and platforms. Transforming connectivity from a commodity to a strategic function will be key outcome. This directly impacts all of Eaton's 100k+ employees and contingent workforce and 600+ locations via its focus on Eaton's next generation Edge compute, storage, and layered connectivity solutions.

The Edge transformation and services leader will lead a geographically diverse team of over 70+ reports, including leaders of people, employees, and contractors. This leader will collaborate with the broader IT value chains, operational and manufacturing leadership as well as IT leadership (CIO and direct staff). This role will influence and lead the strategy, architecture, design, development, and governance of the end-to-end Edge experience which includes technology solutions, data flows, and process architecture across the enterprise. Partnerships at all levels of the organization will drive the goal to improve Edge resiliency allowing Eaton employees to focus on delivering value, growth, and business performance.

As a part of the Infrastructure Services value chain leadership team, this position will have significant leadership and interface responsibilities with the Eaton operational leaders, vendor partners, and information technology product teams across the enterprise. This position will have direct responsibility for the IT profit plan related to the value stream teams. Finally, the role will partner across Infrastructure Value streams on communication related aspects and ensure we are telling "our story" more broadly. This includes partnership with corporate communications and other IT value chains.

Essential Responsibilities :

Develop and execute a global strategy for EDGE technologies aligned with Eaton's digital manufacturing and industrial / physical AI aspirations.

Lead, mentor, and engage a global diverse team of approximately 70+ employees and contractors across Eaton's global footprint to drive the Infrastructure and Edge strategies.

Influence the enterprise technology roadmap for infrastructure management, be the gatekeeper for the definition of implementable strategies for Edge infrastructure; drive the implementation of these strategies and deliver the initiatives on target, on budget, and on time.

Lead the modernization of edge infrastructure including compute, storage, and networking to support real-time data processing, analytics, and AI workloads.

Establish and manage strategic partnerships with technology providers (e.g., AT&T, Cisco, HCL, Dell, MSFT) and ensure that we're building the right solutions with business outcomes as a priority.

Set the strategy to maximize the use and growth of the Edge platforms, while returning the required investment for the platform to the business.

Develop roadmap including investments in tools, technology, and training (onboarding of teams to their platforms). Ensures their platform offerings remain innovative and keep pace with changing external market conditions.

Partner with Eaton Cyber security organization to establish proper governance and best practices regarding Edge security and network operations. Lead Edge related components of the Zero Trust journey.

Partner with IT Support and Operations Teams and Leadership (SIS, GSC) to define, establish, and implement a strategy related to leveraging strategic technologies to preemptively identify end user incident trends and auto deploy solutions / fixes / updates via targeted campaigns to reduce, mitigate, and deflect tickets.

Establish a strategic model for APM and infrastructure monitoring and observability which is integrated into the Eaton Cloud Strategy to infer performance anomalies, automatically raise ITSM incidents, and build self-healing into the organizations cloud and infrastructure strategies.

Ensure high quality, on-time delivery related to key platform modernization programs employee experience, productivity, and workplace solutions.

Collaborate with key business and IT partners across LOBs and functions to align technology and business priorities; negotiate and execute program improvements aligned with business strategy, service quality objectives, and financial goals.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications :

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, or related field from an accredited institution.

Minimum fifteen (15) years IT experience.

Minimum five (5) years leadership experience in global environments.

Experience developing and executing strategies for EDGE technologies in global matrixed environments.

Experience managing a team of professionals and engineers in technology platforms and solution architecture.

Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications :

MBA Degree

Experience in manufacturing environments / knowledge of manufacturing business processes

Position Success Criteria :

Promote a digital mindset oriented, product centric, and business outcome focused culture.

Evangelist for the Edge team and the overall culture both internally and externally.

Cultivates the next generation of technology leaders through direct upskilling of strategic thinking, measured risk taking, and leadership development aligned to Eaton values.

Seek to continuously innovate on new capabilities in line with industry trends and identify cost efficiencies.