Director, Enterprise Applications

Role overview

Portfolio and delivery

• Owns multi-year application strategy, roadmap, lifecycle planning, and portfolio governance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and other business platforms.
• Sets development standards and oversees design, engineering, testing, deployment, documentation, maintenance, and support.
• Leads major implementations, upgrades, integrations, enhancements, and transformation initiatives.
• Sets sustainment, incident, backlog, release, change-control, and service-performance standards.

Architecture and governance

• Provides design authority for application, solution, integration, and platform architecture.
• Establishes architecture, configuration, integration, environment, lifecycle-management, and development standards.
• Ensures solutions align with security, privacy, data, infrastructure, records, audit, regulatory, resilience, and continuity requirements.

Commercial and business leadership

• Manages operating and capital budgets, forecasts, licensing, subscriptions, and total cost of ownership.
• Leads vendor selection, procurement, RFP/RFI processes, contract negotiation, performance management, and renewals.
• Partners with leaders across Finance, HR, Operations, Project Delivery, Marketing and Communications, Business Development, Health and Safety, and Corporate Services.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, Commerce, or related discipline; equivalent education and experience will be considered.
• Requires 12+ years of progressive enterprise technology, business systems, or enterprise applications experience, including at least five years leading application teams at senior management or director level.
• Requires experience leading complex application portfolios, a large-scale implementation or transformation, application teams and functions, and solution architecture governance.
• Requires experience managing multidisciplinary teams, budgets, contracts, licensing, vendors, integrators, and managed service providers.
• Significant Dynamics 365 and Microsoft ecosystem experience is required; listed product areas and Microsoft Fabric or Power BI are preferred.
• Relevant certifications and experience in multi-office engineering, consulting, professional services, or project-based organizations are preferred or assets.
• Requires knowledge of secure development, delivery methods, source control, automated testing, CI/CD, environment management, release orchestration, and project-based professional services processes.

Benefits and compensation

• Salary range is stated as $160,000–$200,00; posting does not specify a pay cadence.
• Benefits include pension matching, health, dental and vision coverage, fitness allowance, assistance programs, paid time off, professional development, and potential company share ownership.
• Flexible or hybrid working arrangements are offered depending on position.

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