Group Manager - Enterprise Applications

About the role

Brookhaven National Laboratory is seeking a highly skilled technical and strategic leader for the Applications and Software Engineering department within the Information Technology Division (ITD).

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for enterprise applications that supports our organization’s business goals and objectives.
• Own, maintain and promote awareness of the application strategic roadmap.
• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of IT professionals.
• Evaluate employee performance, set group and individual expectations. Foster a culture of innovation, excellence, urgency and ongoing improvement.
• Build strong working relationships with Laboratory partners, jointly identifying strategic needs and influence how applications can enable new sources of value.
• Oversee the management of our enterprise applications portfolio, ensuring it meets current and future business requirements.
• Evaluate and prioritize objects based on strategic alignment, return on investment and risk.
• Identify opportunities for system modernization, integration, and automation.
• Safeguard the reliability, availability and performance of our enterprise applications. Implement best practices for application life cycle management, including development, deployment, maintenance and support.
• Manage master data across applications.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key vendors and partners. Develop a thorough understanding of strategic vendors’ roadmaps and how these will support the Lab’s business objectives.
• Build a strong relationship with our internal procurement teams.
• Work with our internal governance and cybersecurity teams to ensure enterprise applications comply with all relevant laws, regulations and industry standards. Oversee risk management processes to identify, assess and mitigate risks associated with applications and database systems.
• Develop and manage the budget for enterprise applications, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and cost-effectiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, information systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience on a basis of 2:1)
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Extensive experience and in-depth knowledge with ERP or other business-critical applications
• Five years or more in a leadership role - directly managing a team of software development professionals
• Ability to use strategic planning to translate business goals into technology solutions
• Strong project management skills
• Demonstrated success in vendor and stakeholder management
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills: Ability to collaborate with executives (e.g. often interacting with CFO and CIO), stakeholders and teams across the organization, and to influence people to achieve common goals

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, business administration
• Experience with PeopleSoft 9.1 Financials/Supply Chain Management and newer cloud-based versions
• Leading, creating or working in an Agile environment, leveraging DevOps best practices
• Preferred: Experience with cloud-first architecture

Skills

• Strategic planning
• Project management
• Vendor and stakeholder management
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Leadership and team management
• ERP or business-critical applications expertise
• Agile methodologies
• Cloud-first architecture

Benefits

Brookhaven National Laboratory offers a comprehensive benefits program that includes:

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• Employee assistance programs
• Professional development opportunities

Pay

The full salary range for this position is $133,550 - $222,500/year. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.

Schedule

This is a remote position with on-site presence available at BNL in Upton, NY.