Sr Director Enterprise Applications

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.

We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet the team

The Sr Director Enterprise Applications will report to the VP IT and will be a trusted advisor and the primary IT point of contact to business line executives and managers. The IT Business Partner (ITBP) has the overall responsibility to serve as the strategic interface with the Finance, Human Resources, Quality, and Product Lifecycle Management leadership (Enterprise Application Leadership) for the purpose of business technology strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management, and relationship management. 

Where you come in

• Establish the business relationship link between the Enterprise Application Leadership and IT at the executive level.  

• Partner with business and IT leadership to identify areas of greatest impact and determine technology solution(s) to execute. 

• Development and execution of an IT roadmap aligned with business leadership’s priorities and long- term strategic imperatives, including a target to optimize our system footprint and drive digital transformation that realizes a high value to the business.

• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing solutions and develop strategies and/or new proposed tools/applications for improvement.  

• Work collaboratively across and within the IT Enterprise in planning, designing, developing, and deploying new applications and enhancements to existing ones. 

• Lead a team of IT professionals, driving a high performing team culture aligned to business outcomes, focused on global best practices to leverage scale. 

• Ensure technology remains in compliance with security and data privacy policies, standards, including accessibility, vulnerability, and website inventory management. 

• Provide leadership with high value strategic guidance through key IT initiatives. 

• Lead development and upkeep of the technology roadmaps in alignment with the business strategic objectives. Continuously share knowledge of new technology opportunities and risks that can help drive competitive advantage, improved efficiencies, and effectiveness for each of the respective teams. 

• Work with peers in Global IT to define and address limitations and establish best practices for the implementation and adoption of new systems, including relevant training standards. 

• Educate business partners on IT project intake and governance processes and standards, and effectively manage the annual portfolio process  

• Communicate decisions, priorities, and relevant project information back to appropriate teams within IT, regarding business unit requests for projects and initiatives. 

• Maintain the total cost of ownership of enterprise applications and cost and scalability with the growth of the company. 

• Budget for planned needs and present justification for all unplanned expenses by assessing the business need and the Return on Investment  

• Ensure department understands and complies with quality standards and requirements as documented. 

• Continue to innovate by assessing new technology and reviewing the performance of existing systems so that the organization remains on the leading edge of innovation and continues to benefit from the technology investments. 

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