Director Of Information Systems

Role: Director of Information Systems
Location: Syracuse, NY (On-Site)
Length: Direct Placement
Top Skills' Details

1. Higher Education - Candidate would ideally have experience working with some sort of ERP at a HE institution in the past (Fin/HCM/Student). Workday would be a plus. CRM also a plus.
2. Leadership - Candidate should have led dev teams in the past (ideally 5 people).
3. Development - Candidate should be okay with some hands-on dev experience.

As a member of the IT leadership team, provides leadership, management, and development of the enterprise information systems unit and associated personnel, systems, and applications to ensure the delivery of exemplary service and information management. Collaborates with key stakeholders and supports project and resource management for administrative and academic functions. Builds partnerships with business area and department leaders whose operations rely on enterprise systems, championing project management and change management strategies to align technology with desired outcomes. Actively advances and promotes Le Moyne's mission, Catholic and Jesuit identity, and commitment to social justice and care for the whole person.

Job duties specific to this position:

• Leads the EIS team to design, develop and implement successful projects and systems.
• Provides direct oversight of the college's administrative systems including Workday, Ellucian Colleague, Hyland OnBase, and other enterprise and/or assigned systems.
• Collaboratively enables and support de-centralized information systems including CRM,
• Coordinates and supervises the day-to-day operations of the unit including allocation of available resources, team management, and work assignment.
• Translates strategic unit priorities into appropriate staff organization, project plans, and task assignments.
• Promotes a security culture, secure software development, and secure systems management practices, including modeling and encouraging desired behavior and awareness including adherence to information security policies, procedures, and practices.
• Prepares project status reports and keeps management, constituents, and others informed of project status and related issues.
• Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Serves as a resource for solving complex problems and issues.
• Corrects problems pertaining to operation of college applications.
• Conducts feasibility studies, analyzes user needs, designs in-house data processing systems or subsystems, programs the systems or subsystems, develops testing criteria, and establishes documentation to support new systems.
• Maintains primary responsibility for assigned systems and applications.
• Prepares detailed database data descriptions, table layouts, queries, data exchanges and reports.
• Designs program logic and codes into authorized programming language
• Produces system documentation and trains constituents in those systems.
• Coordinates and encourages the ongoing professional development of unit staff.
• Mentors and trains programmers and analysts in the department
• Communicates with constituents to ensure that applications meet information needs
• Always maintains a constituent centric approach; demonstrates professionalism in contacts with others.

Relevant Technical Experience:

• Workday Finance, HCM, and Student
• Ellucian Colleague
• Rocket Unidata
• MS SQL Server
• MS SQL Server Reporting Services
• MS .NET and MVC Development
• Hyland OnBase
• Informer
• Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket
• Technolutions Slate
• Blackbaud Raisers' Edge
• Point n Click
• DNN Evoq

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• This position is onsite 100% of the time. Will have 5 direct reports, mostly developers.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent academic preparation from a regionally accredited college or university
• 7-10 years of leadership, management and professional programming experience with increasing responsibility in the design, development, and operations of administrative/enterprise information systems and in the professional development and mentoring of colleagues
• In-depth knowledge of principals, practices, methods, and techniques for long-range and strategic technology planning.
• Demonstrated experience with relevant enterprise systems including ERP, CRM, business analytics, data warehouse, data mining, and decision support and reporting systems.
• Technical knowledge and experience, including information architecture, information security, business process analysis, relational database design and administration, software development and systems lifecycle management Experience with ITIL or comparable service management framework.
• Intellectually curious with a passion for personal and professional development.
• Superior commitment to servicing others with empathy, timeliness, accuracy, thoroughness, and professionalism.
• Creative and critical thinker and problem solver
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; works effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community with an open and collaborative style that engenders trust.
• Self-motivated and proactive; works effectively with limited oversight and direction; attentive to detail; organized.
• Effectively manages resources, constituencies, projects of varying size, and multiple and competing priorities and deadlines.

Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $115000.00 - $150000.00/yr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Syracuse,NY.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Feb 7, 2025.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.