Director Of Enterprise Applications
Company: King's Hawaiian
Location: Torrance
Posted on: January 20, 2023
Job Description:
Joining King's Hawaiian makes you part of our `ohana (family).
We are a family-owned business for over seventy years, respecting
our roots while thinking about our future as we continue to grow
and care for our customers and the communities we serve. Our `ohana
members build an environment of inclusivity as they freely
collaborate, pursue learning through curiosity, and explore
innovation as critical thinkers. Beyond that, we are also
passionate about supporting the long-term health and well-being of
our employees and their families. If you're excited to rise with
our team, come and join our `ohana!The purpose of the Director
Enterprise Applications, position is to provide strategy,
leadership, and direction for the delivery of Enterprise
Application Services within King's Hawaiian. This position has
overall responsibility for the execution and success of service
delivery across the breadth of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, HR,
Finance, Plant Operations, and other corporate departments
applications as well as alignment to enterprise-wide initiatives,
such as Workday and SAP. Primary services provided in the
Enterprise Applications Operations space are Application Production
Support, Application Lifecycle Management, and Support for Vendor
delivered Departmental Applications. This position works closely
with the leadership team, key business stakeholders and internal
customers to ensure organizational alignment with business
strategy, ensuring the appropriate use of team resources,
methodologies, tools, and metrics within Enterprise Applications.
The Director of Enterprise Applications manages a team comprised of
system architects and analysts that develop, deliver, and sustain
King's core enterprise business applications. As we grow, the
Director of Enterprise Applications will focus on development,
deployment, and support of software applications enabling the
King's Hawaiian Digital Transformation and ongoing business process
optimization.ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESLeadership
and Strategy Responsibilities:
- Lead the enterprise applications organization to the successful
delivery of business outcomes.
- Manage the functional and technical budget, with ongoing focus
on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.
- Build strong working relationships with business leaders to
ensure software engineering teams meet expectations and contribute
to the achievement of business goals.
- Collaborate with Data & Technology Services and business
leaders to develop short- and long-term strategic plans.
- Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software
development work to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time
frames.
- Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the software
engineering organization.
- Work with architects to design, manage, and/or execute
roadmaps.
- Be a champion for Data Governance with Enterprise Applications
and ensure the team is maintaining good data practices.
- Explore innovations and trends in technology for institutional
applicability.Talent Management Responsibilities:
- Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization's current
and future technical and functional needs through developing,
hiring, and/or sourcing talent.
- Manage resource allocation across teams to maximize business
impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and
capabilities needed to achieve its objectives.
- Manage functional and technical talent, playing a key role in
performance management and compensation processes, role and
competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion
initiatives.
- Partner with the People department to create learning and
capability building opportunities aligned to the organization's
strategic plan; provide mentorship and coaching to the Enterprise
Apps functional and technical employees to help them grow in their
career.
- Facilitate collaboration and partnership across the enterprise
apps teams and stakeholders.
- Build a culture that supports learning, collaboration,
transparency, and inclusiveness.
- Manage employee engagement and promote a compelling employer
value proposition to retain software engineering staff.Oversight
Responsibilities for Enterprise Apps Team Activities:
- Implement and champion best practices and modern software
development methods and tools
- Lead software engineering teams and other stakeholders to set
goals for improving code quality, maintainability, security, and
scalability. Monitor progress against these goals.
- Implement and manage software development status reporting,
metrics, and benchmarks.
- Manage collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations to
ensure software performs well in production and meets SLAs.
- Work with the Chief Information Officer to ensure software is
effectively secured and that risks are mitigated.
- Oversee management of relationships with consultants, vendors,
and contractors and support negotiation of statements of work and
business terms with suppliers.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Security, Business
Solutions, DTS Ops and Governance and Business Transformation and
Data & Analytics leaders, oversee DevOps processes and practices,
including automating the handoff of code releases from development
to operations.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE)
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering,
or related field.
- 10 years of experience in ERP implementation and application
development, deployment, and support, with at least 4+ years of
experience managing architects.
- Supply chain, food manufacturing process background is
preferred.ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (JOB SKILLS, ABILITIES,
KNOWLEDGE)
- Proficient Portfolio and project management experience.
- Proficient Full System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for the
implementation of technology-based business solutions.
- Expert knowledge of ERP functionality, data, and integration
capabilities, including extending functionality outside the core
product.
- Strong customer service orientation, including the ability to
work effectively in a professional manner with technology teams,
business stakeholders, end users, leaders, and others outside the
organization.
- Expert Computer programming languages, utilities and
applications used in Consumer Product Goods.
- Expert data management practices, data governance, data
warehousing and reporting.
- Expert Web application development, maintenance, and
integration.
- Proficient advanced principles and techniques of systems
analysis, design, programming, and documentation.
- Proficient Management system backup, system continuity, data
protection, and security techniques
- Proficient business analysis and process reengineering
skills.
- Proficient ability to plan, organize and direct daily
operations of assigned areas to achieve outcomes in the defined
time frame.
- Proficient ability to analyze and evaluate data processing
programs and make recommendations/modifications.
- Proficient ability to perform difficult and complex programming
in the analysis of systems requirements and development of computer
applications.
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient ability to work well independently as well as with
co-workers, peers, management team, and executives.
- Proficient ability to handle multiple competing priorities
effectively and efficiently.
- Proficient ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced,
and agile team environment.
- Proficient ability to analyze situations accurately and adopt
an effective course of action.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Ability to activate and amplify aloha via King's values of
excellence, dignity, telling it like it is in a way it can be
heard; and curiosity, collaboration, critical thinking and
emotional intelligence.King's Hawaiian is an equal opportunity
employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an
inclusive environment for our ohana.
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