Full-Time
Director of IT Program Management
IT Program Management
Posted on 10/1/2025
LightEdge Solutions
201-500 employees
Secure hybrid IT infrastructure and services
No salary listed
Des Moines, IA, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid work arrangement.
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- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or related field (Master’s preferred)
- 10+ years of experience in IT program and portfolio management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role
- Proven expertise in leading enterprise-scale IT initiatives and business process transformation
- Strong knowledge of enterprise applications and business processes across finance, HR, operations, and sales
- Demonstrated success in establishing IT governance, portfolio management, and intake frameworks
- Experience with AI initiatives and master data management is highly desirable
- Executive presence with exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills
- Professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, or SAFe Agilist strongly preferred
- Define and champion the IT Program Management function, setting the vision, strategy, and standards for program execution and governance
- Partner with the CIO and executive leadership to prioritize IT investments that enable business growth and operational efficiency
- Collaborate closely with the Operations PMO to ensure alignment, eliminate duplication, and drive coordinated delivery of enterprise-wide initiatives
- Act as a change agent, ensuring that IT programs deliver transformative impact across the enterprise
- Direct technology enablement for mission-critical processes: Drive end-to-end integration and automation across sales, billing, and finance platforms; Modernize and streamline processes for both employees and customers to enhance experience and compliance; Lead integration of AI into business and IT workflows to drive innovation and efficiency; Establish governance and accountability to ensure trusted, high-quality data across the organization
- Establish and oversee the IT portfolio management framework, ensuring that all initiatives are strategically prioritized, transparent, and delivering measurable business outcomes
- Implement and refine intake and demand management processes that balance business needs with IT capacity
- Govern delivery practices across the IT organization to ensure alignment, scalability, and risk management
- Oversee execution of cross-functional IT initiatives, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality are consistently met
- Manage interdependencies across programs and identify opportunities for synergies
- Drive adoption of program management best practices and continuous improvement in delivery methodologies
- Serve as the primary liaison between IT and business leadership on all program and portfolio matters
- Ensure effective communication, transparency, and reporting of IT program performance at the executive and board levels
- Build strong partnerships across business units, including alignment with the Operations PMO, to ensure enterprise-wide coordination and unified delivery
- Experience with AI initiatives and master data management is highly desirable
- Professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, or SAFe Agilist strongly preferred
LightEdge Solutions provides hybrid IT infrastructure services focused on security and compliance. Its core offerings include secure colocation, a high-performance private cloud, and easy integration with hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, enabling a resilient, end-to-end IT environment. The company emphasizes physical security and cyber defense to protect client assets continuously, and offers professional cloud services to guide customers through their cloud journeys—from strategy evaluation to implementation, testing, and ongoing security management. It also provides managed services that augment a client’s internal IT team for hardware, software, and cloud environments, and collaborates with partners like Nutanix to build and deliver modern hybrid cloud infrastructure. Overall, LightEdge aims to help businesses run secure, compliant, and flexible IT operations with trusted, expert support.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$5M
Headquarters
Des Moines, Iowa
Founded
1996
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kansas City 3MW Tier III data center acquisition on May 1, 2026, adds immediate capacity.
- VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 deployment cuts storage TCO by 34 percent.
- Connectria acquisition in 2024 adds six data centers and 400 mission-critical customers.
What critics are saying
- Connectria integration disrupts IBM Power and AWS services, losing clients to CoreSite.
- GI Partners' debt from 2024-2026 acquisitions breaches covenants by mid-2027.
- Broadcom VMware hikes force VCF 9.0 migrations, slashing private cloud margins 30 percent.
What makes LightEdge Solutions unique
- LightEdge leads as largest IBM Power cloud provider in North America.
- LightEdge holds 13 compliance certifications including HITRUST, CJIS, and ITAR.
- LightEdge integrates private cloud with AWS, Azure, and GCP via low-latency connectivity.
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↑ 7%Lightedge, a Broadcom VMware Cloud Service Provider Pinnacle partner, has become one of the first providers globally to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 as a fully managed service. The Des Moines-based company is operationalising VCF 9.0 to accelerate enterprise adoption of modern private cloud infrastructure. VCF 9.0's unified architecture combines compute, networking, storage and cloud management on a single platform. Lightedge delivers this as a turnkey managed service, enabling enterprise IT teams to focus on applications rather than platform lifecycle management. The service offers measurable improvements including up to 10x administrator productivity gains, 38% lower memory and server total cost of ownership, and 34% reduction in storage costs. Lightedge provides managed VCF services across hosted infrastructure, edge deployments and hybrid architectures, serving clients in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and government sectors.
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Lightedge, the leading provider of hybrid infrastructure solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.
LightEdge, a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation for nearly three decades, has entered into an agreement to acquire Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions serving mission-critical workloads for more than 400 customers.
Combined Company Becomes One of the First U.S. Infrastructure Providers Offering Colocation, Private Cloud, and Public CloudDES MOINES, Iowa, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LightEdge , a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation for nearly three decades, has entered into an agreement to acquire Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions serving mission-critical workloads for more than 400 customers. Connectria adds six data center locations to LightEdge's existing footprint of 12 highly interconnected facilities across eight U.S. markets. The acquisition — LightEdge's fourth since GI Partners' investment in 2021 — is the latest demonstration of LightEdge's strong and growing leadership role in the data center and cloud infrastructure sector."With this acquisition, LightEdge becomes one of the only secure and compliant infrastructure providers in the country offering both hybrid colocation and tailored multi-cloud solutions," said LightEdge CEO Jim Masterson. "The acquisition extends LightEdge's colocation and private cloud offering into public cloud services, while bringing together two incredibly talented and diverse teams and two highly complementary product suites, geographies, and customer bases
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