Sr. Director, Application Development

Overview

Now is the time to join us and make a difference. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.  Here at the American Heart Association, you matter and so does your career.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Director, Application Development our National Center office located in Dallas, TX.

 

The primary responsibility of the Sr. Director, Application Development is to provide strategic direction, planning and support of all internally facing enterprise applications at the American Heart Association. The Director is also responsible for understanding the needs of the various business units and building relationships with the different business unit leaders. Additionally, the Director is responsible for building strategic relationships with the technology partners / vendors and for creating technology roadmaps for future application enhancements and upgrades. Technologists in this department have deep levels of understanding in their various areas of expertise and as such they provide critical application support to the business units. The Director is responsible for ensuring high performance outcomes from these resources and that the needs of the organization are being met or exceeded. Emphasis on business value and quality of service is critical while working to reduce the cost of application maintenance and support. 

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

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Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and direction in the management of American Heart Association internally facing enterprise applications.
• Mentors the Enterprise Applications Team’s managers for Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Cloud, Workday, MS SharePoint and MS Dynamics CRM as well as a variety of other business unit specific applications.
• Working with business unit leaders, directing strategic planning for enterprise application roadmap for American Heart Association.
• Liaises with leadership across American Heart Association to ensure technology services American Heart Association needs and determine future needs.
• Manages staff issues and other administrative duties.
• Manages relationships and negotiations with strategic vendors for enterprise applications.
• Evaluate the application support model in pursuit of process improvements, productivity improvements, and growth opportunities for staff members.
• Determines processes, projects and procedures to create efficiencies, secure data, and cut costs within the department. Finds opportunities for doing so across American Heart Association.
• Researches and implements new technologies enabling new business processes and opportunities for American Heart Association.
• Provides leadership to implementation planning for software rollouts, products and services.
• Defines new KPIs and builds roadmaps to advise decision making and prioritization.
• Sets Goals and Expectations for performance and works with employees to establish specific, measurable goals and commitments.
• Mentors, coaches, and encourages a team of analysts and programmers.
• Leverages American Heart Association technology investment by maximizing the life, utility, and maintenance of systems. 

 

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technology, Information Systems, Analysis, Business or a related field of study.
• Minimum of (5) years of experience supporting/implementing enterprise software application technology environments such as Oracle Cloud, Workday, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics with management of managers.
• Prior experience building and leading teams that tackle sophisticated problems and perform broad technology implementations.
• Broad-based leadership and general business management experience gained in a variety of assignments, functions, and business environments including distributed team and remote management
• Ability to negotiate contracts with controls and service levels
• Broad understanding of technology and technology evaluation techniques.<