Status: Permanent
Reports to: Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
Direct reports: Technology Operations Managers (EMEA/APAC & Americas), Cyber Security Lead, AV Lead
Job Purpose: The Director of Technology Infrastructure and Cybersecurity leads the strategy, delivery, security, and continuous improvement of the IFRS Foundation’s global technology environment, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives. Supporting 350 staff across six countries, the role ensures resilient, secure, and high-performing services in a 24x7 operational model. Combining strategic oversight with operational accountability, the Director is responsible for infrastructure, end-user computing, AV, cybersecurity, and third-party suppliers. The role is central to managing risk, maintaining service continuity, and enabling organisational effectiveness across a distributed global footprint.
Operating within a cloud-first model, the infrastructure landscape is primarily delivered through platforms such as Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365
The Team: The Director of Infrastructure and Cyber Security is a global role managing the delivery, management and update of Infrastructure and Cyber Security at the Foundation’s 6 offices (Beijing, Frankfurt, London, Montreal, San Francisco, and Tokyo). The role works with colleagues from other regions and with the Enterprise Applications Manager and Project Manager - IT Initiatives. The role reports into the CTO for the organisation.
Principal accountabilities: The Director of Technology Infrastructure & Cybersecurity oversees infrastructure teams and is accountable for core technology services, including infrastructure, digital workplace, AV, and cybersecurity. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across these areas, manages supplier relationships, and works with business leaders and the CTO to shape the organisation’s infrastructure and security roadmap. The Director ensures innovation, resilience, risk management, and service continuity in a distributed environment. IFRS prioritizes cloud-based technology platforms.
Infrastructure Strategy & Leadership
- Drive standardisation across multiple offices while accommodating regional requirements.
- Develop strategies for managing the cloud infrastructure, digital workplace and security operations, providing technical leadership to optimise the performance and cost base of the services
Operational Excellence (24x7 Global Environment)
- Ensure high availability and performance of all core systems supporting a 24x7 international operation.
- Establish and monitor SLAs, KPIs, and operational metrics to maintain service quality.
- Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes.
- Ensure effective disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities across all locations.
- Oversee the planning, installation, maintenance and acceptance of new and updated infrastructure, digital workplace and security components and services. Defines safety and security procedures to be followed, and delegates tasks at the appropriate level.
- Service levels: Ensures that the Cloud infrastructure, Digital Workplace and Security operations team meet Service or Operational Level Agreements. Reports and presents service level information to stakeholders. Reviews of service level information and reports to stakeholders, recommending appropriate action.
- Incident management: Reviews incidents and breaches of service level agreements. Reports on findings and initiates improvement actions.
- Problem Management: Conducts investigations of significant operational outage and provides recommendations for problem mitigation. Initiates reviews of infrastructure performance to surface & resolve problems and build infrastructure resilience.
- Ensure effective delivery of technology services across six international offices, considering local regulations, time zones, and operational differences.
- Build and lead a globally distributed team and/or vendor ecosystem.
- Foster collaboration between regional stakeholders and technology teams.
Risk Management & Compliance
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technology infrastructure risks across all regions.
- Maintain and continuously improve technology controls in line with organisational risk frameworks and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure infrastructure and operations meet audit, compliance, and governance standards.
- Lead infrastructure-related input into enterprise risk management processes.
- Monitoring and reporting: Ensures that operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored and resolved. Provides appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users and managers.
- Policies, operational procedures and standards: Designs and develops operational standards and procedures for cloud infrastructure, digital workplace and security operations management, aligning all operations procedures to service expectations and other quality standards.
Cybersecurity
- Ensure infrastructure is secure by design and aligned with cybersecurity policies.
- Oversee implementation of security controls including endpoint protection, network security, identity management, and vulnerability management.
- Ensure proactive threat detection, response, and remediation capabilities.
- Promote security awareness initiatives across the organisation
- Lead the Information Security Group (ISG) comprising of key stakeholders across the Foundation
- Incident management: Review and report on incidents and breaches of cybersecurity. Initiate improvement actions.
End-User Computing & Desktop Services
- Own the strategy and delivery of end-user computing, including desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and collaboration tools.
- Ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience across all offices and remote workers.
- Drive automation, modern workplace solutions, and device lifecycle management.
- Automation tools: Investigates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
Audio Visual (AV) & Collaboration Technologies
- Oversee AV infrastructure supporting global meetings, hybrid working, and events.
- Ensure reliable, high-quality conferencing and collaboration capabilities across all locations.
- Partner with business stakeholders to continuously enhance user experience in meeting spaces.
Financial & Resource Management
- Develop and manage infrastructure budgets, ensuring cost control and value for money.
- Optimise resource allocation across internal teams and external partners.
- Support business cases for infrastructure investments and transformation initiatives.
Supplier & Outsourcing Management
- Manage relationships with outsourced service providers and strategic technology partners.
- Define, negotiate, and monitor contracts, SLAs, and performance outcomes.
- Ensure suppliers deliver value, innovation, and compliance with organisational standards.
- Mitigate vendor-related risks and avoid over-dependency on single providers.
Skills and attributes
- Report writing
- Governance
- Development of KPIs and Service Level Agreements
- Project resource allocation
- Business Relationship Management
- Policy creation
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Asset Management
- New service integration
- Proven leadership experience in technology infrastructure within an international, multi-site organisation.
- Strong expertise in cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, networking, and end-user computing.
- Demonstrated experience managing outsourced services and third-party vendors.
- Deep understanding of technology risk management, cybersecurity principles, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience supporting 24x7 operations with high availability requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across global teams.
Personal Attributes
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Pragmatic and solutions-focused with strong decision-making capability.
- Resilient and calm under pressure in a global operational environment.
- Collaborative leader who builds trust across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on service quality and innovation
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational oversight.
- Self starting.
Qualifications & experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent industry experience.
- Significant experience in technology roles, with proven experience in a senior leadership position covering infrastructure and cybersecurity.
- Knowledge of Cloud environments specifically Azure
- AWS a benefit
- Experience in vendor management and contract negotiation.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
- Knowledge of security best practices and industry compliance standards.
- CISSP a benefit
- Knowledge of ITIL based environment
- Use of ITSM platforms
Application Closing Date: 24th May 2026
Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate before the closing date.
About us
At the IFRS Foundation, we believe better information leads to better decisions. We set financial reporting standards that enable companies to meet the evolving information needs of the global capital markets. United by our purpose to foster trust, growth and long-term financial stability in the global economy, we engage in challenging, meaningful work every day—across all our areas of expertise.
If you share our passion for this mission, we want to hear from you.
Diverse perspectives. International expertise.
Working for our global organisation offers many benefits, including:
- rewarding work that serves the public interest;
- engagement with diverse international experts;
- inclusive and collaborative teams;
- intellectually challenging projects;
- flexible working arrangements;
- numerous areas of specialisation; and
- opportunities for professional growth and development.
Diversity and inclusion are seen as key strengths of our organisation. These qualities are essential for us to engage with and meet the needs of our varied global stakeholders, and they are part of what makes the IFRS Foundation a great place to work.
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