Senior Director, Application Platforms & Development

Senior Director, Application Platforms & Development

What You’ll Do:

Set the Application Vision

• Define and steward the long-term vision for enterprise application platforms, including TMS, WMS, Financial ERP, EDI, and custom-built capabilities.
• Guide platform selection, modernization, and build-vs-buy decisions.
• Ensure cohesion and alignment across application roadmaps.

Lead Innovation Through Development

• Shape how custom application development differentiates our business and extends core platforms.
• Establish architectural guardrails, integration patterns, and extensibility strategies.
• Champion innovation that improves automation, scalability, data flow, and customer experience.

Empower Product & Delivery Teams

• Lead Product Managers and Business Analysts who own backlogs, requirements, and stakeholder alignment.
• Provide strategic direction and prioritization frameworks while enabling teams to execute independently.
• Oversee major initiatives from concept through deployment using disciplined SDLC and Agile practices.

Provide Executive & Organizational Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CIO and senior business leaders.
• Build strong relationships across Operations, Transportation, Warehousing, Finance, and Customer Experience.
• Lead and develop internal and offshore teams across application development, integrations, and delivery.

Ensure Stability & Governance

• Ensure enterprise applications supporting 24/7 operations are stable, trusted, and well governed.
• Partner on resiliency, disaster recovery, security, and business continuity planning.

What Success Looks Like

Year 1

• Enterprise application platforms are stable, trusted, and continuously evolving to solve real business problems and enable differentiation.
• Product and delivery disciplines operate with clarity and predictability.
• Business leaders view Application Development as a strategic partner.

Year 2

• Application strategy is clearly aligned to business growth and competitive advantage.
• Custom development meaningfully enhances core service offerings.
• Leadership depth and executive trust support growth into a VP role.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• 10 years of progressive IT leadership experience in application development and enterprise systems.
• Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, including offshore delivery.
• Experience supporting Transportation, Warehousing, Supply Chain, or Distribution environments.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence without micromanaging.

Preferred

• Experience with TMS, WMS, ERP, EDI, and integration-heavy ecosystems.
• Background blending custom development with packaged platforms.
• Experience modernizing mature platforms in operationally intensive environments.
• Master’s degree a plus.

Why Join Us

• A strong application foundation already in place
• Executive visibility and real influence
• Clear VP growth path based on performance
• Opportunity to build differentiation, not just maintain systems