Director Applications Development Jobs in Michigan

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The role:

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, delivery, support, and continuous evolution of the firm's enterprise applications portfolio, including Workday and other core platforms supporting HR, Finance, Marketing, and related internal firm services functions.

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle for enterprise applications - from planning and investment prioritization through design, implementation, enhancement, release management, support, and sustainment - ensuring reliable and scalable services for the firm.
• Partner with firm services leaders and business owners to understand goals and challenges, translating needs into clear roadmaps, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Serve as the senior IT relationship leader for enterprise functions, building trusted advisory partnerships, shaping demand, and helping leaders make informed tradeoffs across scope, sequencing, investment, risk, and value.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year enterprise applications strategy and roadmap aligned to firm priorities, technology strategy, architecture standards, and business needs.
• Lead the application portfolio with a firmwide perspective, including evaluation of current capabilities, identification of gaps and redundancies, and recommendations to enhance, standardize, consolidate, modernize, or retire solutions to improve business value and total cost of ownership.
• Ensure operational excellence across supported platforms through strong service management, issue resolution, support processes, release/change discipline, and performance against defined service levels and business expectations.
• Establish and mature governance, intake, prioritization, and planning processes, ensuring transparent decisions and alignment across competing demands.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, Infrastructure, and delivery teams to ensure enterprise applications are secure, well-integrated, support high-quality data flows, and align with enterprise standards for architecture, integration, controls, and sustainability.
• Provide financial leadership for enterprise applications, including investment planning, resource forecasting, budget oversight, vendor spend management, and business cases for major initiatives.
• Own strategic vendor and partner relationships, including performance management, roadmap alignment, contracts, licensing, and value realization.

The qualifications.

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred (technology, information systems, engineering, or business).

• 15+ years of progressive experience in technology/enterprise applications/ERP (or related), with substantial leadership overseeing delivery, support, and transformation at scale.
• Proven domain experience leading enterprise application portfolios that support multiple corporate functions such as Finance, HR, Marketing, Operations, or other internal services areas.
• Experience with Workday and/or other enterprise SaaS platforms, including strategy, implementation, enhancements, operations, release/change management, and vendor partnership.
• Strong experience partnering with senior business leaders to define roadmaps, prioritize investments, resolve competing demands, and ensure technology initiatives drive measurable business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams, including managers and cross-functional delivery resources, while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and talent development.
• Experience with enterprise operating models including governance, intake/prioritization, portfolio and change management, service management, and disciplined execution.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture, information/data architecture, controls, and security considerations for enterprise systems.
• Experience with vendor management and building strategic partnerships with software providers, implementation firms, and managed service partners.
• Excellent analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• Exceptional verbal, written, interpersonal, and executive communication skills, including the ability to facilitate complex discussions, influence decisions, and represent IT credibly with senior leadership.
• Experience working in professional services or similarly complex, matrixed, multi-stakeholder environments is strongly preferred.

This is an exempt position, so you may have to work hours that exceed the standard 40-hour work week.

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Interestedapplicantsmust submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of interest in our positions, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, with the exception of qualified candidates who are bilingual in either Japanese and English or Chinese and English. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and become the property of Plante Moran.

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We are pleased to offer eligible staff a robust benefits package. Eligibility and contribution requirements for some of these benefits vary based on the number of hours staff work per week. Highlights include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. In addition to this, eligible staff are able to take advantage of our Flexible Time Off and various pre-determined holidays, as well as a 401(k) plan, flexible benefits plans, business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use. A pension plan is also available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff. A discretionary bonus plan is available for eligible staff. Plante Moran also offers some contingent staff positions the option to elect health insurance in addition to limited paid sick time.

The compensation range reflects the base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this position across our offices in the following regions: CO, IL, OH, and MA. Please review the position description for the applicable geographic location. Generally, experienced hires are not hired at or near the maximum salary range, as compensation decisions take into account a wide variety of factors, including but not limited to: responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. For early career roles, including campus hires, we offer standardized, market-based starting salaries among individuals within the same hiring group. This approach ensures fairness and reflects current industry benchmarks for entry-level talent.

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The compensation range for this role in CO, IL, OH, and MA is: $160,000-$250,000.

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