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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for enterprise applications that supports our organization’s business goals and objectives. Own, maintain and promote awareness of the application strategic roadmap.
- Team leadership and development: Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of IT professionals. Evaluate employee performance, set group and individual expectations. Foster a culture of innovation, excellence, urgency and ongoing improvement.
- Business engagement: Build strong working relationships with Laboratory partners, jointly identifying strategic needs and influence how applications can enable new sources of value.
- Portfolio management: Oversee the management of our enterprise applications portfolio, ensuring it meets current and future business requirements. Evaluate and prioritize objects based on strategic alignment, return on investment and risk. Identify opportunities for system modernization, integration, and automation.
- Operational excellence: Safeguard the reliability, availability and performance of our enterprise applications. Implement best practices for application life cycle management, including development, deployment, maintenance and support. Manage master data across applications.
- Vendor management: Establish and maintain strong relationships with key vendors and partners. Develop a thorough understanding of strategic vendors’ roadmaps and how these will support the Lab’s business objectives. Build a strong relationship with our internal procurement teams.
- Risk management and compliance: Work with our internal governance and cybersecurity teams to ensure enterprise applications comply with all relevant laws, regulations and industry standards. Oversee risk management processes to identify, assess and mitigate risks associated with applications and database systems.
- Budget management: Develop and manage the budget for enterprise applications, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and cost-effectiveness.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, information systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience on a basis of 2:1)
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Extensive experience and in-depth knowledge with ERP or other business-critical applications
- Five years or more in a leadership role - directly managing a team of software development professionals
- Ability to use strategic planning to translate business goals into technology solutions
- Strong project management skills
- Demonstrated success in vendor and stakeholder management
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills: Ability to collaborate with executives (e.g. often interacting with CFO and CIO), stakeholders and teams across the organization, and to influence people to achieve common goals
Preferred Knowledge and Skills
- Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, business administration
- Experience with PeopleSoft 9.1 Financials/Supply Chain Management and newer cloud-based versions
- Leading, creating or working in an Agile environment, leveraging DevOps best practices
- Experience with cloud-first architecture
Other Information
- This is a remote position with on-site presence available at BNL in Upton, NY
- Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position
Brookhaven Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. The full salary range for this position is $133550 - $222500/year. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.
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