Sr Dir, Corporate Applications

Responsible for managing the corporate application product teams and systems, which includes core systems around Human Resources (HR), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Finance and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Capital Project Management, as well as shared systems that support data transfer and integrations. Managing the software includes administration, configuration, integration updates, system upgrades, outage planning, and patch management.

In addition to supporting the systems, this position will own the complete corporate application portfolio to help manage the maintenance and enhancement plans, patches, upgrades, decommissioning life-cycles, and dependencies with other systems. This planning will take place with leadership across business and IT groups.

Direct Reports for this position include IT application managers, IT application directors, as well as individual contributors. These teams will be responsible for different groups of systems and processes. Indirectly, this position will manage a diverse team of technology professionals including software engineers, systems and business analysts, and solutions architects to deliver quality technical solutions to complex business needs in a timely manner.

• This position will work with the IT Chief Information Officer (CIO), the Vice President of Applications, other IT leaders, as well as business leadership to manage an overall strategy for the corporate applications portfolio. This strategy will include the lifecycle of all corporate application systems, upgrade plans, decommissioning plans, as well as budget needs to accomplish the plan. This portfolio will be maintained regulatory and used for continuous improvement of the corporate applications landscape.
• This position will manage various teams in support of the corporate systems. This includes both the sustainment of current systems through patches, updates, fixes as well as through new projects to deliver substantial changes and new systems. While leading these groups, alignment will need to be maintained with business leadership, other IT groups, as well as budgetary commitments.
• For managing current systems, this position will both directly and indirectly establish and support on-going support processes. This includes system changes, updates, upgrades, and outages. This position will help lead teams in the testing, documenting, implementation, and maintenance of a suite of corporate application systems.
• For establishing new systems or implementing large updates, this position will both directly and indirectly lead the evaluation, scheduling, and resourcing needs of the project. This person will also be involved with cost estimation, design, development, programming, and configuration of these projects.
• While the systems are maintained and projects delivered, this position will ensure that application processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation. 
• As a leader of application group personnel, this position will develop team skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the organization, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps. This position will define job roles, recruit candidates, and manage a team of applications leaders and senior information management professionals in different regions or business units across a complex, international group enterprise.
• This position will also manage any third party contracts related to the corporate application systems (hardware, software, resources). This includes defining scope, participating in reviews, meeting with partners to negotiate positive outcomes, and managing adherence once the contract is in place. This vendor relationship management will ensure that they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization. 
• This position will establish strong stakeholder relationships with business partners as well as IT leadership. While working with the business teams, this position will ensure stakeholder satisfaction is being met for support, product quality, budget expectations, portfolio planning, and project delivery. This will also be supported with adherence to any related key performance indicators (KPI).
• As a leader in IT, this position will also participate in technology strategy planning sessions while making corporate application technology choices for Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company.

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. (Typically, four years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)
• Masters (or MBA) in business, statistics, info