Director of Enterprise Development

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Director of Enterprise Development

Job Description Summary:

Under the supervision of the Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC), Solutions Delivery and B.I., the Director of Enterprise Development, oversees the implementation of software development related projects and programs that support ACC’s vision. The director will work within an IT as a Business (ITaaB) model wherein the establishment and maintenance of core IT business processes, service/operating-level agreements and success metrics will be a primary responsibility.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Establishing processes, methodologies and operating or service-level agreements for streamlining the operations of the software development and quality assurance teams.
• Acting as a technical subject matter expert for the areas managed, including Salesforce development, cloud-native development, integration development and quality assurance.
• Supervising, training, coaching, directing, and disciplining personnel while adhering to organizational human resource policies and procedures as well as related employment laws.
• Recommending hire and termination for positions supervised.
• Participating in the development and execution of the IT department’s roadmaps.
• Ensuring the overall performance, security, stability, integrity, performance, and operations within ACC’s development ecosystems
• Coordinating with Product Owners and Program Managers on development priorities.
• Ensuring there is proper documentation of all aspects of ACC’s development environment and developed applications including platform configuration, architecture  and technical/functional capabilities.
• Establishing and maintaining constructive professional relationships with business stakeholders at all levels.
• Mentoring developers and coaching them on development best practices on all platforms used (including Salesforce development and Cloud Native Development).
• Establishing work plans and determining staffing levels for project activities and arranging for recruitment or assignment of project personnel as needed.
• Communicating and presenting to College leadership the capabilities, vision, direction, and strategy of software solution delivery.
• Aligning with Enterprise Architecture to ensure development strategy and vision is consistent with the overall strategy and vision for IT.
• Determining annual requirements for environment enhancements and team development including: hardware, software, licensing, training, renewals, maintenance, staffing, and other needs.
• Providing high-level analysis on complex requirements and providing recommendations.
• Presenting leadership with status updates and progress reports for ongoing initiatives.
• Providing extensive knowledge and expertise in software development best-practices.
• Maintaining the development environments and deployed products such that solutions perform in a highly-available, robust, efficient, and effective manner.
• Managing projects as needed and delivering results in a fast-p