The Associate Director of ERP Development provides strategic and technical leadership for the design, development, and maintenance of the institution’s custom development ecosystem, centered around the ERP. This position oversees custom development, integrations, cloud ERP extensions, and modernization initiatives to ensure systems meet evolving academic, administrative, and regulatory needs, and translate those needs into achievable technical scope.
The Associate Director leads a team of developers, establishes development standards and lifecycle governance, and partners closely with functional stakeholders to translate complex business needs into secure, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the technical design, development, testing, and deployment of ERP enhancements across functional areas such as Student, Human Resources, and Finance.
- Lead and manage custom development within and alongside the ERP environment, including data pipelines, custom people code and modernization efforts across on‑premises and cloud platforms.
- Supervise, mentor, and evaluate developers.
- Partner with functional stakeholders to translate business processes into scalable technical solutions within the ERP ecosystem.
- Ensure security, compliance, auditability, and institutional policy alignment for all customizations and integrations.
- Participate in strategic planning for enterprise systems and contribute to budgeting, staffing, and vendor relationship management.
KSAs
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic and technical leadership for large-scale, enterprise ERP ecosystems supporting complex academic and administrative environments.
- Extensive knowledge of ERP technologies, relational databases, and integration patterns, including strong proficiency in SQL and experience with legacy and modern development languages and tools such as COBOL, Java, JavaScript, XML, and related middleware and API frameworks.
- Expertise in ERP integration technologies and methodologies, including APIs, component interfaces, messaging frameworks, integration brokers, and data pipelines.
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex performance, scalability, and functional issues.
- Experience partnering with functional and business stakeholders to translate institutional policies and business processes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience leading or supervising technical development teams
- Technical development experience, including any of the following: scripting, data integrations, event driven APIs, Rest APIs, ETLs, or JSON.
- Experience aligning technical solutions with complex business needs.
- Experience developing in any of the following languages: PS-SQL/T-SQL, Oracle Development Tools, PeopleTools, SQR, Java, Java Script, and XML, Python, C-sharp.
