Enterprise Applications Manager

Purpose of position:
Lead the development of the Enterprise Application strategy and roadmap and ensure the teams integration with the overall IT and enterprise strategic plans through coordination with the CIO, and other IT and Business leaders. Responsible for key decisions and deliverables within the integration domain, and specifically oversee the effective solution of the platform with the internal and external development partners.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

- Promote Enterprise Architect (EA) strategies within Information Technology Services (ITS), the functions and member firms.
- Provide insights into the organizations current state architectures, especially in supporting future state architectures developed within business strategy workshops and needs of the lines of business.
- Provide leadership, vision, and direction to the Enterprise Applications organization to foster a business-oriented culture to ensure alignment and contribution to the company and functional goals and objectives
- Provide leadership, direction, and day-to-day oversight to the Enterprise IT Applications teams (including staffing, budgeting, user support, and other relevant management and administrative functions)
- Develop and control the annual operating and capital expenditure budget for the team to ensure it is consistent with the strategic objectives and aligned to the plan
- Pursue and builds relationships across business and technical teams to better understand the utilization and prioritization of capabilities
- Develop various formal and informal artifacts to communicate the vision, roadmap, architectural decisions, patterns, adopted reference standards, etc.
- Drive consistency in architecture patterns and building blocks. Enable readiness to adopt standards, principles, and models
- Help support of architectural governance and enable consistent adoption of standards, principles, and models.
- Assesses user needs to provide support and proactive service, including analysis of opportunities in order to take advantage of available tools.
- Acts as a focal point for communicating related system problems within the department and collaborates with other teams and vendors on changes, fixes, and updates.- Identifies opportunities for improvement.
- Negotiates resolution of conflicting requirements across the business and/or departments.
- Sets and measures performance objectives and provides regular one-on-one feedback to all members of the team.
- Hires and evaluates the performance of direct reports and provides ongoing coaching and staff development.
- Addresses individual staff performance problems as needed.
Develops relevant metrics, measures, and publishes the performance of the services provided and enables continuous improvement activities in collaboration with peer groups
- Works closely with the ITS Leadership Team in identifying, evaluating, selecting, and implementing specific information technologies that support the business plans and ITS strategy.
- Ensure department adheres to policies and procedures that are compliant with industry and regulatory policies.
- Prepares analysis and or proposals for other infrastructure departments when necessary.
- Serves as an internal consultant to other IT management staff and operations community as needed.
- Develop and maintain an effective support structure.Person specification:
**Relevant skills and qualifications**
- A Bachelor''s degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience is required.
- Minimum eight years of enterprise architect experience; preferably from a professional services firm
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- _Experience in _Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)._
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- _Experience in _Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
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- _Experience in _Microsoft Dynamics CRM_._
- Experience in Data Warehousing (ETL) methodologies and database management
- Experience in Data Visualisation through Microsoft Power BI
- Excellent communications, written and verbal skills and aids in training and presenting
- Confidence in dealing with staff, managers, and partners across the firm
- Consulting or client facing experience advantages
- Industry standard certificates such as TOGAF 9 Certification and or ArchiMate 3 Certification preferred
- Demonstrable experience of full lifecycle implementations for small to medium sized projects.
- Knowledge and understanding of goals and the interdependencies of functional departments and groups and the ability to lead large-scale complex IT projects in addressing overall business needs.
- Knowledge and ability to direct staff in integrating information technology services with the work requirements and deliverables of the unit.
- Excellent written, oral, instructional, presentation, and interpersonal skills focused on motivation and positive attitude
- Highly self-motivated, directed, and change oriented
- Ability to handle confrontation with appropriate grace, pr