Director, Enterprise Applications

About the role

The Director, Enterprise Applications will lead and mature ATI’s enterprise application function during a critical period of transformation. This role will assume responsibility for Oracle EBS and PSIMetals and play a critical role in stabilizing and delivering application components of a major business unit transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead Oracle EBS and PSIMetals application execution through UAT, go-live readiness, cutover support, and hyper care.
• Intervene where needed to stabilize delivery, resolve execution gaps, and improve team performance.
• Ensure ERP and PSIMetals workstreams are coordinated effectively with MES, analytics, LIMS, integration, and business process dependencies.
• Evaluate current team structure, skills, performance, and internal/external delivery mix; make changes within budget authority as needed.
• Ownt the Accenture managed services relationship for ERP and mature the operating model, governance, performance expectations, knowledge transfer, and accountability mechanisms.
• Partner closely with BU transformation leadership, functional DT leaders, BU DT leaders, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, and application teams to drive execution and readiness.
• Build and mature ATI’s future enterprise application capability across a broader enterprise application portfolio.
• Mature ATI’s enterprise application practices across solution ownership, SDLC, release management, testing, support, vendor governance, application lifecycle management, business transformation support, and enterprise application architecture.
• Lead Oracle EBS and PSIMetals teams with a focus on execution quality, accountability, business process alignment, and operational stability.
• Create a culture of proactive issue resolution, fact-based decision-making, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Audit and upgrade team capability through coaching, role clarity, upskilling, restructuring, hiring, or changes to delivery model where needed.
• Step directly into active transformation delivery and provide leadership across ERP and PSIMetals application readiness.
• Drive UAT readiness, defect resolution, cutover preparation, go-live support, and hyper care planning.
• Identify material risks quickly and bring forward options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Partner with program leadership to ensure application delivery is aligned with overall transformation objectives, timing, and business outcomes.
• Establish a more disciplined SDLC and application delivery model for ATI.
• Develop a practical roadmap for centralizing and maturing enterprise application ownership.
• Build stronger confidence from DT and business stakeholders in application delivery, support, and solution leadership.
• Contribute to ATI’s ERP strategy and future enterprise application architecture direction.
• Build a team and operating model capable of supporting future business unit transformations.

Qualifications

• Significant enterprise applications leadership experience at director level or equivalent.
• Strong Oracle EBS experience or substantial ERP leadership experience in complex industrial, manufacturing, aerospace and defense, or metals environments.
• Proven ability to step into distressed or underperforming application delivery environments and stabilize execution.
• Experience leading ERP or enterprise application delivery through UAT, go-live, cutover, and hyper care.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge functional and technical teams directly, validate assumptions, and drive decisions.
• Experience managing large systems integrator or managed services relationships, preferably Accenture or comparable partners.
• Strong people leadership experience, including assessing talent, upgrading capability, managing performance, and building accountable teams.
• Experience maturing SDLC, release management, testing, change control, support, and application governance practices.
• Ability to operate hands-on when needed while building scalable management systems and long-term organizational capability.
• Experience contributing to ERP strategy, roadmap development, architecture decisions, and multi-business-unit application standardization.

Skills

• Enterprise applications leadership experience.
• Oracle EBS experience or ERP leadership experience in complex industrial, manufacturing, aerospace and defense, or metals environments.
• Stability and execution experience in ERP or enterprise application delivery.
• Leadership and management experience in large systems integrator or managed services relationships.
• People leadership experience, including assessing talent, upgrading capability, managing performance, and building accountable teams.
• Experience maturing SDLC, release management, testing, change control, support, and application governance practices.
• ERP strategy, roadmap development, architecture decisions, and multi-business-unit application standardization experience.

Benefits

Immediate Priorities: Lead Oracle EBS and PSIMetals application execution through UAT, go-live readiness, cutover support, and hyper care. Ensure ERP and PSIMetals workstreams are coordinated effectively with MES, analytics, LIMS, integration, and business process dependencies. Evaluate current team structure, skills, performance, and internal/external delivery mix; make changes within budget authority as needed. Own the Accenture managed services relationship for ERP and mature the operating model, governance, performance expectations, knowledge transfer, and accountability mechanisms. Partner closely with BU transformation leadership, functional DT leaders, BU DT leaders, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, and application teams to drive execution and readiness.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Full-time