Director of Web Applications Development

About the role

Under the general direction of the Associate Vice President of Technology, the Director of Web Applications Development provides strategic and operational leadership for the University’s web application development function. The Director leads a team responsible for planning, designing, developing, integrating, securing, and maintaining enterprise websites, custom applications, application programming interfaces, automation services, and related platforms that support the academic and administrative mission of California Baptist University.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, leadership, coaching, and work coordination for developers and other assigned staff supporting web applications, enterprise websites, integrations, APIs, background services, and related solutions.
• Partner with University stakeholders to identify business needs, define scope, analyze requirements, establish priorities, manage expectations, and translate functional requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap for web applications and development platforms aligned with institutional priorities, enterprise architecture, information security, accessibility, and service objectives.
• Plan and manage concurrent projects, including schedules, milestones, resources, risks, budgets, dependencies, testing, communications, implementation, and post-launch support.
• Perform and oversee solution architecture, business analysis, software design, development, code review, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and technical documentation as needed.
• Establish and enforce secure software development lifecycle practices, coding standards, source control, peer review, automated testing, release management, change control, and separation of development, test, and production environments.
• Ensure applications follow University information security requirements, including secure coding, identity and access management, least privilege, vulnerability remediation, logging, monitoring, data protection, and incident response support.
• Oversee application lifecycle management and