Director – Enterprise Applications

As a Director - Enterprise Applications you will direct activities related to the design, development, and implementation of enterprise application functions within assigned application. You will manage multiple development teams supporting different products or lines of businesses. You will direct and guide the managers, reviews different project requests, timeline and cost. You will develop, distribute, support, enforce, and integrate the best practices and technology standards across the organization. You will create functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets, policies, procedures to support the organization. You will coordinate enhancements and maintenance of information systems to ensure highly reliable and cost effective operations.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees assigned Enterprise Applications function(s), responsible for people management and driving a positive team culture that continually encourages creativity, ownership, and accountability.
• Develop a sustainable enterprise applications strategy to ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead strategic technological planning as it relates to applications and cloud-based distributed systems to achieve organizational goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, development, deployment, and management of current and future application technologies with all stakeholders.
• Manage existing EA technology programs, products, and services for all lines of business, including the CRM, ERP life-cycle, cloud platforms, application integrations, and third-party software.
• Manage functional application support activities ensuring timely resolution of open issues, accurate documentation, and service delivery focus.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields required.
• Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields preferred
• 10 years required of technical leadership experience in systems administration, network administration, web application technologies, platform management, data security risk management, or similar fields.
• 5 years required of experience in the design, implementation, and management of enterprise applications.
• 3 years required, 5 years preferred of experience managing projects and contracts with outside vendors and consultants. Administrative experience including organization, planning, cost and benefit analysis, budgeting and project management, and evaluation.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with IT leadership teams, and with the ability to build coalitions across organization.
• Strong knowledge of systems development life cycle methodologies, change control, change management, and project management.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving capability.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Strong project management skills.