Director of Application Architecture

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Great Base Salary
Medical - 4 different health care plan options, dental, and vision
Short and long-term disability and life insurance
Health savings and flexible spending accounts
Generous paid time off starting at 4 weeks, 7 holidays and 3 floating holidays
8 Hours of paid volunteer time off

Role will lead significant functional transformation of the technology of our organization. The central tenet for the services organization will be a shift from adhoc on-demand commodity services to a leveraged Platform services model focused on value pursuit and incorporating both platform technology sustainment and key stakeholder engagement (Business Partnering). This leveraged services and business partnering model will incorporate service Platform leaders for:

• Decision Support Services (BI)
• Financial Application Services (ERP),
• Human Capital Application Services (HCM)
• Employee Productivity Services (M365, Desktop, mobility)
• Technology Infrastructure Services

Should have some of the following….
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop the specific metrics for the service category; used to monitor existing SLA’s and advancement of the Decision Support services model to the agreed strategies. This will incorporate analysis of the existing services from an ITIL services model perspective and development of a plan to execute the transition of service enablement to the strategic objectives (order taking to self service provisioning, many local to regional or leveraged, on premise to cloud, custom solution to off the shelf, insource to outsource, outsource to insource etc.)
• Develop a Decision Support Service function, data and solution architecture; As the Leader for Decision Support Service, this individual will translate strategic requirements into an enterprise information architecture to guide enterprise solution development and achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio. Accountable for developing the information architecture standards, policies and procedures for the organization, applying accepted data content standards to technology projects. Will anticipate events within the organization and optimize business intelligence and data warehousing tools to enable a data driven, analytical and performance aware environment.
• Implement and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise business intelligence program; The Director, Decision Support Services is the Leader of all business intelligence software and related services. Will be accountable for developing an approach to ensure that quality information is best discovered, maintained and reported to the organization while balancing the need for access against security and performance requirements. Will work with the business units and key stakeholders to determine data requirements and the best way to deliver, maintain and optimize solutions. A key part will be liaising with the business applications, technology infrastructure and employee productivity teams, as well as the rest of the IT team as required. Will also ensure the design, maintenance and implementation of database management systems provides the organization with quality methods of data storage and controlled access to data. Ultimately, the Director, Decision Support Services is an expert in data intelligence technologies and how they can best be leveraged within an organization
• Develop relationships with internal partners; Will develop strong team relationships with all the BP&S leadership team, meaning their peer service category owners, the three business partners and the IT functional excellence leaders as well as the CDO.
• Manage external partners; Will lead the use of external resources as required to develop the business intelligence program. This will include interviewing, managing external partnerships and negotiating and monitoring contracts.
• Build a strong Decision Support Systems team; Will design, develop and manage the enterprise's business intelligence organization, consisting of direct reports and indirect reports (such as individuals in data mining and data warehousing). This will include hiring, training, developing, performance management and conducting annual performance reviews. Will be a thought leader, a consensus builder and an integrator of people and processes. Will lead a geographically dispersed team and motivate the team and develop this group into a fully integrated organization capable of being a real player in a multinational organization.