At West Coast University, you can deliver innovative solutions to today’s complex business issues! You will play an essential role in higher education to lead and manage key functions which include software development, quality assurance, database administration, and data integration. As a hands-on technical leader, you will design strategic plans for applications in support of all organization related initiatives, plans, and projects for students and faculty as well as administrative services. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to student fundamentals has resulted in an organization that is consistently recognized as a “Best Place to Work.” We are over 110 years in education and still growing. Come work and grow with us!

How You Can Impact:

As the Head of Applications Development, you will:

• Plan, develop, and maintain the enterprise applications.
• Manage multiple development teams including Salesforce CRM, Custom Developed .NET applications; manage the DBA, and Quality Assurance teams; maintain integrations between custom applications and enterprise systems such as Anthology Student, Canvas, Oracle HCM, and CORE Clinical.
• Develop and establish the organization's application development lifecycle process and policy to ensure consistent, efficient, and reliable deployments of new applications and application enhancements.
• Develop strategy for integrating with cloud-based solutions.

Who You Are:

• 7-10 years’ experience in strategy and long-range planning and enterprise architecture.
• 10 years’ experience with increasing responsibilities in software development building and maintaining multiple applications at an enterprise level.
• Must have experience managing medium to large teams (25-50) with a mix of offshore and remote.
• 10-15 years of overall information technology related experience with increasing responsibilities for multi-faceted, multi-college/campus direction and planning.
• Knowledge of operating systems, networks, software applications, and hardware platforms.
• Knowledge of current practices in the administration of technology-based instructional systems.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, electronics engineering, voice/data communications, public/business administration, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.

Compensation:

• $190,962.00 - $295,991.10 + Bonus
• Great benefits package

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Do you want a career that allows you to make a difference in other people’s lives? Discover what it means to truly believe in the work that you do at West Coast University.

At West Coast University, we have the privilege of educating students seeking careers in healthcare and guide them through their transformational journey from student to caregiver. Our associates are united behind that purpose and share a deep commitment to our values of teamwork, collegiality, transparency, and a student-centric approach to all we do. This focus creates an aligned, nimble, and consensus-driven culture that is solution-oriented and supports our associates’ professional growth.

West Coast University is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) match, paid time off, holidays, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, health savings accounts, employee discounts, commuter benefits, and company paid life, AD&D and LTD insurance.