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  We are looking for an innovative Director of IT Operations to join our IT team!    The global church is quickly moving towards more digital ministry solutions. LifeWay is hitting the gas pedal and moving towards creating cutting edge, trustworthy experiences for churches. Our next Director of IT Operations will help lead us into this new season.    Operational excellence and continuous improvement are at the heart of this position due to the critical nature of the oversight responsibilities. This includes end user services, network / infrastructure / cloud operations, DevOps, and incident/ change management across the corporate office, warehouse, distribution center, and two major data centers servicing approximately 1000 employees.   Do you have a passion for supporting the IT team responsible for all technology hardware, applications and integrations? Are you skilled at strategic planning of the IT infrastructure, supporting all systems and applications? Do you have a heart for equipping the local church?    As our Director of IT Operations reporting to the CITO, you will work closely with LifeWay IT teams (tech.lifeway.com). As a collaborator, the Director also liaises with all department leaders to facilitate current and future technology needs. As we adapt to the rapidly changing industry, you will drive skill development and nurture the exceptional engineering talents of your team.

  We are looking for an innovative Director of Data Management & Analytics to join our IT team!    The global church is quickly moving towards more digital ministry solutions. LifeWay is hitting the gas pedal and moving towards creating cutting edge, trustworthy resources for churches. Our next Director of Data Management and Analytics will help lead us into this new season.    Do you have a passion to work with internal business leaders and IT staff to support data Owners / Stewards / Analysts in understanding data management processes and data quality procedures to ensure data integrity? Do you have a heart for equipping the local church?    As our Director of Data Management & Analytics you will work closely with our CITO, LifeWay IT teams (tech.lifeway.com), and be responsible for implementing Lifeway’s data strategy, which includes: data architecture planning and execution, data operations (API, ETL development, data warehouse management), identifying current and future data needed to support the organization including governance over the business data, and providing business intelligence reporting.   As the Director of Data Management & Analytics, you will understand the ongoing requirements of our business units and will help evolve our overall Data Strategy, Governance and BI/Analytics/Big Data ecosystem to support new tools and design shifts that enable the business to be successful in a high-growth environment. This includes short and long-term planning, staff management, optimizing processes and technology, and ensuring an appropriate BI/data platform is delivered in a highly distributed, complex business environment.

  We are looking for an innovative Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), reporting to the Chief Information and Technology Officer, to join our IT team!      The global church is quickly moving towards more digital ministry solutions. LifeWay is hitting the gas pedal and moving towards creating cutting edge, trustworthy resources for churches. Our next Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)will help lead us into this new season.    LifeWay Christian Resources, headquartered in Nashville, TN, seeks an experienced, engaging, and visionary Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who wants to become part of an exciting, vibrant community of information technology professionals supporting LifeWay’s diverse business.   The CISO is an advocate for the Lifeway’s total information security needs and is responsible for the development and delivery of a comprehensive information security strategy to optimize the security posture of the company. They will lead the development and implementation of a security program that leverages collaborations and company-wide resources, facilitates information security governance, advises senior leadership on security direction and resource investments, and designs appropriate policies to manage information security risk. The complexity of this position requires a leadership approach that is engaging, imaginative, and collaborative, with a sophisticated ability to work with other leaders to set the best balance between security strategies and other priorities at an operations level. This person is expected to be a hands-on leader.