Director Enterprise Academic Applications

Job Description

  • Job code: 010197
  • Pay grade: J
  • Pay type: Exempt/salaried

General summary

Manages the development and maintenance of enterprise-wide academic applications.

Major duties

  • Plans and manages large scale implementation projects.
  • Ensures that applications comply with University requirements and professional standards.
  • Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with information technology vendors.
  • Develops, documents and promotes standards to ensure the reliability and accessibility of academic applications.
  • Gathers and documents requirements for new or modified academic applications and user access programs. Creates or modifies programming, or configures application software. Installs, tests and debugs application software.
  • Maintains software through upgrades, patches, data migration, backup and recovery, and writes programs to automate these processes.
  • Hires, trains and evaluates performance of staff.
  • Provides training to end-users or develops programs or documentation for end-user training. Provides end-user-support. Provides technical expertise to project teams and production support programmers.
  • Researches and recommends new software or technology to maintain academic software.

Minimum qualifications

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

Required education

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited institution or Bachelor’s degree in a non-related field from an accredited institution combined with relevant experience.

Required experience

  • Five years’ relevant experience.
  • Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
  • Project management experience.
  • Experience developing programming standards.
  • Supervisory or lead experience.
  • Vendor management experience.

Physical requirements

Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.

Working conditions

Work is generally performed in a well-lit temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2024-04-15

This description indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees in the above job. It is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.