IT Executive Director of Enterprise Solutions

Position Classification:

Regular, full-time, salaried, exempt and benefit-eligible staff position. For more benefit information visit Why Work at UCO?

General Schedule:

Position typically works Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm in-office at UCO's main campus in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Salary:

The salary is disclosed within the application as an application question.

Position Overview & Job Duties:

Under the general direction of the Chief Information Officer, the Executive Director of Enterprise Solutions curates long-term strategies and provides direction for centralized, enterprise-level technology service delivery for the Office of Information Technology. Accountable for ensuring alignment with IT vision and strategy within area of responsibility. Ensures the area’s technological level remains up to date, defines standards, and implements new policies, procedures, and techniques with 24x7 availability and support. Manage relationships with stakeholders and maintains the unit’s reputation and integrity. As part of the Leadership Team, the Executive Director must effectively communicate and collaborate with leadership and university stakeholders to support strong partnerships between IT and the community, and to ensure that the Office of Information Technology is positioned to meet the current and future needs of UCO. Responsible for performing job duties in accordance with the mission, vision, and values of the University of Central Oklahoma.

The Executive Director of Enterprise Solutions is responsible for the strategic and operational governance and oversight for UCO’s enterprise applications including ERP (HR, Finance, and Student), CRM, third-party applications, web services, software development, systems integrations, solutions architecture, and other enterprise applications that exist across the environment. Responsible for managing all project-related technical third-party vendors, solution delivery, internal technical project resources, and deliverables, and will be the single point of contact as needed for the appropriate UCO business functions in understanding solution details and deliverables as they relate to the project(s). Support the CIO in aligning system support functions with the needs of the institution to provide effective technology support for end users. Defines and communicates academic technology vision in collaboration with key academic stakeholders and provides leadership for the design, development, and implementation of university-wide instructional technology. These efforts include collaboration in the design and support of learning and collaborative spaces.

• Identify opportunities to make the organization more agile, efficient, and flexible, while driving end-to-end operational excellence across the organization.

• Deliver and manage prioritized project technical roadmap to enable the desired application and overall solution capabilities.

• Oversee the design and implementation of enterprise-wide application development standards and effectively manage adoption across the organization.

• Oversees support and administration for mission-critical business areas, including back-office applications and web-based platforms.

• Collaborate on the integration of application architecture through close teamwork with software engineers, application developers, project team leaders, business analysts, and business operations teams.

• Work with IT and business leadership in business continuity planning, testing, and recovery to ensure the resiliency of UCOs application portfolio.

• Provide resource management to major initiatives by forecasting and prioritizing resource demands with functional areas.

• Establishes department goals and objectives.

• Manage, coach, and mentor direct reports and others in the organization.

• Ensure team members’ technical skills are kept current by identifying and supporting appropriate training and other professional development opportunities.

• Ensures the areas’ technological level rem