Director, Platform Services

About ITT:

ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) is a diversified global leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions serving the flow, aerospace and defense, transportation, industrial, and energy markets. Through operational execution, innovation, and disciplined capital deployment, including strategic acquisitions such as SPX FLOW, ITT partners with its customers to deliver enduring solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life. 

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, ITT has a market cap of roughly $20 billion and employs more than 15,000 people across 40 countries and serves customers in approximately 125 countries. Following the acquisition of SPX FLOW, the company is expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenue.

 

Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA: 

 

Flow Technologies: A global leader in, providing a broad portfolio of pumps, valves, mixing and agitation equipment, heat transfer, homogenizers, separation, water and wastewater treatment, and engineered process solutions.Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history), Anhydro, APV, Bornemann, Bran+Luebbe, C’treat, Engineered Valves, Gerstenberg Schröder, Habonim, Johnson Pump, Lightnin, Philadelphia, Plenty, PRO Cast, Rheinhütte, Seital Separation, Stelzer, Svanehøj, Tigerholm, Uutechnic, VIDAR, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell.

 

Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include Friction Technologies, KONI and Axtone.

 

Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include ITT Cannon, Enidine, Aerospace Controls and kSARIA. 

Position Summary

The Director of Platform Services is accountable for the strategy, architecture, governance, financial management, project delivery, operational performance, and continuous improvement of ITT’s global platform services, including enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure, compute, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, database platforms, observability, automation, and core shared services as well as end-to-end hosting infrastructure including data center operations, disaster recovery, hypervisor platforms, patching, vulnerability management, and infrastructure-as-code driven automation. This role provides senior leadership for a globally distributed platform function, ensuring secure, resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and well-governed services that enable business operations and digital capabilities across the enterprise.

 

A primary responsibility of this role is building, developing, and leading a high-performing global organization with teams distributed across the United States, Greece, and India. The Director is responsible for creating an engaged, accountable, and customer-focused culture by attracting, developing, mentoring, and retaining top talent while fostering technical excellence, collaboration, leadership development, and continuous improvement across the organization.

 

This leader will partner with senior IT leadership, business executives, regional IT teams, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, application teams, data and analytics, finance, procurement, and strategic vendors to define and execute a multi-year platform services roadmap aligned to ITT’s business strategy, growth objectives, risk posture, technology modernization agenda, and global operating model.

 

Key to this role is establishing the vision, architecture, standards, governance, service levels, financial discipline, talent model, and execution cadence required to operate platform services as a reliable global enterprise capability. The Director will lead operational excellence, platform modernization, automation, observability, resilience engineering, cloud governance, vendor performance, and service transformation while ensuring alignment with business priorities, compliance requirements, cybersecurity expectations, and global architecture standards.

Essential Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning- Define and lead the global platform services strategy across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, including platform modernization, data center transformation, resilience, automation, observability, self-service enablement, and service optimization.- Establish and execute long-term strategic plans for platform technologies, service models,