The Director of Enterprise Application Development leads a team that provides strategic planning, custom development, analytical, and systems support for a wide-variety of projects aimed at optimizing the utilization of the University’s information systems, business intelligence, and data.

• Prioritize customer success and manage technical resources to meet objectives and deadlines within the Agile framework.
• Contribute to the development of high-performance teams through rigorous goal setting, continuous process improvement, and mentorship.
• Manage, coordinate, and deploy teams’ skillsets to ensure accurate and timely delivery of requirements while driving quality.
• Lead team(s) of internal and external 3rd party resources performing design and development activities for University business.
• Responsible for the development of application suites supporting the University, understanding their capabilities, limitations, and strategies.
• Collaborate with department leadership to develop annual budgets for enterprise application initiatives, including software licensing, development projects, and ongoing maintenance costs.
• Partner with users to understand their business needs for information and opportunities for use of technology to improve their processes and help them meet their departmental, school and/or University objectives.
• Understand the best-of-breed solutions and tools available in the market, develop proposals and recommendations to bring the relevant ones to the organization, and periodically report the return on such investments.
• Monitor and develop strategies for data management and integration throughout the transactional input systems and the analytical processes needed to support each business segment.
• Work closely with the IS Operations Team to develop procedures, standards and processes for the monitoring and support of the University’s system infrastructure.
• Develop and execute test plans to ensure that a product or system meets the design specification, security, and other requirements.
• Coordinate with IS to develop and utilize methodology standards in a coherent, consistent, accountable, and repeatable manner. Identify templates, tasks, and forms for a development lifecycle.
• Support effective change management through coordination of upgrades and patches across business applications including communication, user training and acceptance testing.
• Contributes to sustaining and enhancing an inclusive working and learning environment.

Required:

• Four-year university degree in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge and work experience required
• Minimum 8 years' work experience integrating complex systems
• Five years of managerial experience
• Strong knowledge of the latest Microsoft technologies including: ASP.Net, MVC, C#, MS-SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX
• Requires a technical visionary and business leader who is able to manage business area while building workflow processes and controls
• Must be current on emerging technology developments and competitive offerings to proactively promote new business solutions
• Must be able to scope, define, manage, and lead the implementation of projects from inception to production launch and post-launch assessment based on business requirements defined by the stakeholders.
• Knowledge of healthcare, educational, and/or financial regulatory requirements as well as data compliance standards, such as HIPAA, HITECH, FERPA, PCI, and GDPR, and their implications for enterprise application management a plus.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, influence and relationship management skills that enable collaborative working relationships to be developed with other departments
• Ability to manage multiple projects of varying complexity on concurrent timelines within deadlines and constraints
• Demonstrated focus on customer service and building positive relationships with leadership team, end users, and peers in high-pressure and complex environments
• Ability to translate business and technical concepts into function specification documents
• Highly motivated, organized, able to multi-task and work under tight deadlines
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment

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About Us
Established in 1823, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) is the oldest institution of higher education in Boston, a city that is home to many of the world’s top universities and healthcare institutions. We are one of the largest and most highly-ranked schools for health- and life-sciences, and our alumni and faculty continually distinguish themselves in healthcare settings around the globe. MCPHS has more than 7000 students across campuses in Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA), downtown Worcester, MA and downtown Manchester, NH. Our vision is to empower our Community to create a healthier, more equitable world, which we strive to achieve through our strategic priorities of collaboration, inclusion, success, sustainability, planning, and support.
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that include a substantial contribution toward the cost of medical, vision, and dental insurance, generous time off, retirement and pension plans, and flexible work arrangements to support work/life balance for our employees while supporting the MCPHS strategic plan.
MCPHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer that celebrates a diverse community. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.
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