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Organizational Overview
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). With a strong focus on helping lead the organization's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) modernization efforts, this individual will bring forward a strong sense of strategy, design, and execution with our key business partners and stakeholders.
With a broad portfolio of legacy, custom, and commercial applications, constructing and delivering on a prioritized modernization plan built with our partners will be a key ongoing deliverable. The individual must balance and optimize investment opportunities, operational efficiency, and business outcome delivery in conjunction with business partners and Lab leadership.
The position requires a strong technical background in enterprise financial and related systems, project/program management, and an ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to align that portfolio with business needs. Additionally, the ability to build and manage strategic vendor relationships that will help the organization achieve and maintain a stable and responsive portfolio of applications is crucial. It is expected that this leader will help our organization adopt and utilize modern cloud-based ERP-related services and platforms.
Reporting to the ITD Applications department manager, this position oversees a development team comprised of full-time internal staff and contractors, and a portfolio of on-premises applications, customizations, and related integrations. They work with their peers and senior ITD leadership to drive application strategy and execution, overseeing projects through completion. They work in close collaboration with business partners and application stakeholders.
Brookhaven Lab's Information Technology Division's (ITD) mission is to deliver safe, efficient operations that ensure the delivery of the Lab's research mission by:

• Developing and deploying state-of-the-art information and computing systems in support of scientific research and business operations
• Providing a reliable and secure, high-speed network infrastructure for scientific and business computing
• Developing a scientific computing infrastructure that can support the computing needs that are common among the scientific departments
• Providing support to scientific and administrative programs to help them address their unique computing problems
• Providing a cost-effective, highly reliable, secure, and standardized computing infrastructure
• Promoting best practices in the areas of platform support, application development, and customer service
• Providing cost-effective information services to the Brookhaven Lab community including Research Library, publications, records management, and technical editing services, in support of the research mission and in compliance with contractual requirements

ITD includes experts in information technology (IT) infrastructure and operations, cyber security, business systems, data information, and information services, including records management and the Research Library. The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator who is resourceful and innovative, and who understands that collaboration with stakeholders from across the Laboratory is critical to ensure the right expertise and technology are in place to advance our mission of bringing science solutions to the world.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership: 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.
• Team leadership and development: 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.
• Business engagement: Build strong working relationships with Laboratory partners, jointly identifying strategic needs and influence how applications can enable new sources of value.
• Portfolio management: 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.
• Operational excellence: 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.
• Vendor management: 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.
• Risk management and compliance: 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.
• Budget management: Develop and manage the budget for enterprise applications, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and cost-effectiveness.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 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

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• 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
• Experience with cloud-first architecture

Other Information

• This is a remote position with on-site presence available at BNL in Upton, NY
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position

Brookhaven Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. The full salary range for this position is $133550 - $222500/year. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate's qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov) delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation's future. Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 37 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) operates and manages the Laboratory for DOE. BSA is a partnership between Battelle and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University. BSA salutes our veterans and active military members with careers that leverage the skills and unique experience they gained while serving our country, learn more at BNL | Opportunities for Veterans at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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