Senior Director Information Systems

Overview

Senior Director Information Systems is a key transformational leadership role responsible for driving end-to-end application development, support, and administration across a diverse enterprise landscape, including Salesforce, SAP, and Microsoft-based solutions. This leader will manage a team of developers and external partners to deliver rapid, high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment. The role emphasizes advancing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices strategy, ensuring scalable, modular solutions that align with enterprise integration standards.

Base pay range : $170,000.00 / yr - $180,000.00 / yr

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor an internal team of developers and manage relationships with third-party development partners to scale delivery capacity.
• Define and champion the enterprise’s transition toward SOA and microservices-based architectures across Salesforce, SAP, and Microsoft ecosystems.
• Oversee full application lifecycle management, including development, support, and administration of enterprise core platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, and custom-built Microsoft applications.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership with deep expertise in C#, .NET, Azure, and API-driven microservices development.
• Drive rapid, high-quality development and timely delivery of solutions across digital and process automation initiatives, ensuring seamless integration with enterprise applications and data platforms using C#, .NET, and modern microservices-based architectures.
• Establish and enforce application development standards, coding practices, technical documentation, and release management with an SOA and microservices lens.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to define frameworks for reusable services, APIs, and process orchestration.
• Ensure processes across all solutions are designed for scalability, resilience, and interoperability across business and technology ecosystems.
• Champion the transition to emerging technologies, including cloud-native applications, microservices, API integrations, and low-code solutions.
• Utilize performance metrics (velocity, code quality, defect rates, etc.) to hold internal and external resources accountable for delivery expectations and continuous improvement.
• Continuously assess team capabilities, address skill gaps, and actively upgrade talent to align with evolving technology and business strategies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business stakeholders, infrastructure teams, project managers, and enterprise architects to ensure alignment and support for strategic initiatives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in complex development scenarios, with a deep focus on the Microsoft technology stack and microservices architecture.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts to enhance development velocity, solution scalability, system reliability, and speed-to-market.
• Identify and close skill gaps, evolving the team’s capabilities in microservices, API development, and layered solution design.
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure third-party development partners meet performance, delivery, and quality standards.

Education and Experience

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Rail Transportation

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