Business Application Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing functional and technical team, providing direction, coaching, and development opportunities to foster accountability, technical depth, and customer focus.
• Build strong relationships between all technology groups to create multidisciplinary teams that work together (remove silos).
• Lead the evaluation, installation, configuration, and deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications, ensuring they meet business and compliance requirements.
• Oversee application lifecycle management, from initial deployment to ongoing enhancements and upgrades, adhering to best practices in project and change management.
• Oversee application incident management and performance evaluation to maintain high availability and functionality.
• Participate in compliance efforts for SOX, NERC-CIP, and other regulatory standards, including managing quarterly and annual testing, gap analysis, and audit preparations.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and other technology teams to ensure application security measures align with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, and responsiveness within the team to meet and exceed service expectations.
• Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures and attain knowledge and remain knowledgeable of regulations, laws, standards, and best practices applicable to functional area.

Qualifications

• Education and Training: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field.
• Knowledge And Experience: Minimum 8 years’ experience in technology leadership positions with an emphasis on application implementations and support, preferably in a similar industry or within a utility company.
• Experience supporting mission critical applications optimized to run in the cloud or virtualized environments.
• Strong knowledge of system architecture, process mapping, functional design, technical design, integration design and system and software development technology.
• Experience employing SDLC methodologies including Agile and Scrum.
• Experience in integrating and managing technology solutions to improve business processes and services.
• Experience in application rationalization, budget, vendor and change management.
• Experience in project management within a matrix environment.
• Experience in Oracle Fusion, Salesforce, Service Now, SharePoint, GIS, Documentum, or similar applications.
• Experience in supporting applications for Legal, Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Finance, HSSE and Field Operations.

Skills

• Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with a track record of building and developing high-performance teams.
• Hands-on leadership skills with the ability to provide both strategic direction and tactical support to teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, with a strong focus on operational efficiency and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Strong project management abilities, with a focus on hands-on involvement in key projects and initiatives.
• High attention to detail, commitment to service excellence and continuous improvement.

About Us

Tri-State is a wholesale power supply cooperative, operating on a not-for-profit basis, with electric distribution cooperatives and public power district members in four states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. Together with its members, Tri-State delivers reliable, affordable and responsible power and energy services to nearly a million electricity consumers across roughly 200,000 square miles of the West. Founded in 1952 by its member systems to provide a reliable, cost-based supply of electricity, Tri-State is now headquartered in Westminster, Colo., employing approximately 1,000 people across five states. Tri-State's electricity is generated from coal, natural gas, hydropower, wind, and solar. This power reaches members via a transmission system that includes substation facilities, telecommunications sites and almost 6,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines. As a member-owned and -governed cooperative, every member has a voice and an equal vote in the future of Tri-State.