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SkyWater’s practice areas are each led by highly-experienced executive recruiters who constantly screen, interview and network with top professionals and executives within their specialty.

IT Executive Recruiters


Looking for the next member of your IT executive team? Are you focusing your search in Minnesota? You’ve come to the right place.SkyWater Search Partners is the leading IT executive search firm in Minnesota. This is because we have a specialized group of executive recruiters that focus on the information technology space. Our focus is to find and secure the best IT executive talent for our client’s specific business needs. Our detailed sourcing and evaluation process results in clients only seeing top-tier candidates – their short list.We’ll find, vet, and secure talent with the skill set you’re looking for – but we won’t overwhelm you with a multitude of candidates. You’ll only see your best choices based on your specific requirements. Our goal is to make the IT recruiting and hiring process more focused, efficient, and effective.

What We Hear From Our Clients:

  • We need fresh talent that has had exposure to a variety of technologies.
  • We can teach the ways of our business, but we need someone who can come in and contribute right away.
  • We’re having trouble finding someone who not only has the technical capabilities for the role, but also excels in soft skills, and is a good fit for our company culture.

Why SkyWater?

  • We not only thoroughly screen each IT candidate ourselves but also use our extensive network and resources to test a candidate’s technical ability. This ensures that every candidate our client sees has the necessary experience to be successful in the open role.
  • The best candidates want to utilize their full skill set and know that they’re making an impact. We have access to those candidates.
  • 85% of our clients returned to partner with us on additional roles.
  • We need a higher caliber candidate. Today, sifting through applications is time-consuming and not fruitful.
  • To ensure we understand the culture of a company, we meet with the decision-makers and hiring managers to gain an understanding of your company’s culture and goals.

To talk more with our IT executive recruiters about the roles within your organization that need filling, give us a call at 952-767-9000 or submit your information right on this page.

Looking for additional resources to assist your HR team with IT recruiting? We’ve got you covered. Check out our tips for IT Executive Recruiting.

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Our specialized team of IT recruiters help clients fill a wide range of IT leadership and specialty positions including:
DIRECTOR AND ABOVE
  • Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • VP of Information Technology
  • Director of Development
  • Director of IT
  • Director of Software Engineering
  • Director of DevOps
  • Director of IT Operations
  • Director of E-Commerce
ENGINEER & ANALYST
  • UI/UX Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • IT Analyst
  • Software Engineer
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • QA Engineer
  • Product Owner
  • Scrum Master
  • iOS/Android Engineer
  • Test Automation Engineer
  • Cloud Engineer
  • Data Scientist
  • Machine Learning Engineer
DEVELOPMENT/ARCHITECTURE
  • Software Developer
  • Mobile Developer
  • Web Developer
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Application Architect
  • Data Architect
  • Senior Machine Learning Developer
ADMINISTRATOR / MANAGER
  • Project Manager
  • System Administrator
  • Network Administrator
  • Support Specialist
  • SQL DBA
  • IT Manager
  • Network Administrator
  • Business Intelligence
  • Infrastructure Manager
  • SRE Manager
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