Platte River Power Authority is a not-for-profit, community-owned public power utility that generates and delivers safe, reliable, environmentally responsible and financially sustainable energy and services to Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland, Colorado, for delivery to their utility customers.
At Platte River, we share a sense of purpose and pride in the value we add to our communities, our region and the energy industry. We rely on our staff to sustain our leadership role in the region and to help us work toward our goal to achieve a 100% noncarbon energy mix within the next decade. To accomplish this, we offer competitive pay and benefits, state-of-the-art workplaces at both headquarters and the Rawhide Energy Station, and the following unique benefits:
- Onsite, fully-equipped gym facilities
- Fleet cars for use by staff for local business travel
- Employee rewards, health and financial wellness programs
- Volunteer days and opportunities to participate in community events
- Culture of respect, commitment and camaraderie
If you’re searching for a collaborative working environment within a mid-sized organization that values innovative ideas, diverse perspectives and provides opportunities to make a difference, consider joining the Platte River team.
Job purpose/summary
The Sr. Manager, Enterprise Applications is a key leadership role within Platte River’s digital leadership team and is responsible for driving the organization’s digital transformation, focusing on applications and technological solutions. This role works in close collaboration with various lines of business at Platte River to ensure reliable service levels for day-to-day operations, supporting both legacy and future applications. The Sr. Manager manages business relationships with leaders across all functional areas of the company and builds relationships with senior business leaders for program and project leadership, issues resolution and sustained overall customer satisfaction.
Deadline to submit applications: Tuesday, March 26 at 11:59 pm Eastern
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Enterprise Application Architecture: Develops and manages the Enterprise Application strategy and Enterprise Architecture roadmap in alignment with the overall digital and organizational strategy. Implements tools and processes that facilitate enterprise system integration across the service catalog. Communicates to the organization how this strategy will optimize the delivery of business services and help the organization realize its goals.
- Data Science and Engineering: Manages the development of a data science program through building a data strategy, defining objectives, identifying use cases that deliver value, assembling cross-functional teams, hiring or developing resources, creating process and continuously iterating.
- Solution Facilitation: Proactively overcomes resource challenges by leveraging a wide range of internal and external resources to creatively solve problems. Manages relationships with consultants, implementation partners and service providers and ensures their products are secure, integrated, and cost effective.
- Technological Innovation: Seizes opportunities created by emerging technologies to facilitate innovation in business models, products, and services. Uses information and technology to drive value for the organization. Proactively overcomes technology challenges by leveraging a wide range of options to creatively solve problems and resource constraints. Employs a strategic mindset to see future possibilities and translates them into business solutions.
- Technology Stewardship: Manages and maintains the enterprise application portfolio for the organization, ensuring the technological stability and building functional capabilities. Partners with the business on technology initiatives across the organization.
- Operations Management: Drives operational excellence and demonstrates the department’s value to the organization. Ensures that staff respond to customer requests in accordance with established service levels. Collaborates with other project managers and oversees projects across the portfolio, ensuring effective execution, proactive handling of issues, and continual improvement in delivery. Prepares and manages the annual department budget and participates in monthly budget meetings with finance business partners, providing insight on budget variances.
- Business Strategy: Contributes to the success of the organization by understanding the organization’s industry, core functions, products, services and customers. Contributes to the success of the organization by combining that understanding with technology solutions to solve business problems.
- Relationship Management: Identifies, builds, and maintains formal and informal networks and constructive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, the digital management team and others across the organization. This includes leveraging these relationships to influence positive outcomes and deliver value for the organization.
Other functions
- Interacts with stakeholder to define and refine project requirements
- Researches and recommends new technologies to meet organization needs or increase departmental efficiencies
- Performs other duties as assigned
Supervisory controls
- Provides direct supervision to professional, technical, and skilled employees to maintain alignment with department and organizational goals and objectives
- Functions as an advisor to department and sets objectives for employees to achieve operational goals
- Enables training and development opportunities for direct reports and employees in area of responsibility; acts as a mentor for employees within larger department
- Provides guidance, analyzes issues and resolves conflicts within area of responsibility
- Collaborates with others on cross-functional projects
- Champions organizational policies and exercises objective judgment and decision making within department
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Proven experience in overseeing the implementation and management of complex, enterprise-wide business software solutions
- Proven experience managing data architecture/engineering/science/analytics staff
- Proven experience developing an enterprise application strategy and architecture roadmap
- Project and resource planning and management experience
- Experience with managing business analysts and vendors performing the work to ensure the delivery of results and value to the organization
- Excellent active listening, verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of system and software quality assurance industry practices and methodologies
- Ability to exercise good judgment, making decisions in the best interest of the organization
- Proven ability to architect and present technology alternatives based on a business concept
- Lead development of process and implementation of technology that aligns with business needs of enterprise
- Collaborates with subject matter experts across the company to develop and manage the execution plans for key strategic initiatives
- Partners with the Director to both assist and drive business strategies and efforts
- Focuses on the near-term deliverables as well as the longer-term strategy horizon as the energy and utility industry goes through transformative shifts
- Leads staff and consultants to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition
- Strong design and implementation skills highly preferred
- Knowledge of business process improvement disciplines (i.e., Six Sigma)
- Ability to manage change
- Experience management of complex and large-scale projects and/or teams
- Experience in the Utility industry
- Experience with data integrations platforms such a Informatica, Boomi, etc.
- Experience with Service Now and managing Service Now teams
- Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP and WACS
- Experience with Energy Management Systems (OSI, PCI, PI, SCADA)
- Experience with organizational change management
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field
- Valid driver’s license and ability to remain insurable under the vehicle liability policy
- Ten years of experience supporting/managing enterprise-level applications
- Five years experience leading strategic business transformation programs/initiatives
- Five years of experience leading enterprise application staff and vendors
Preferred education, licenses and work experience
- ITIL certification and experience working with an ITIL structure
- Previous supervisor/manager experience leading a team of technical employees
- Project Management related certification (CAPM, PMP, etc.)
Physical demands
Minimal physical effort typically found in clerical work. Primarily sedentary, may occasionally lift and carry light objects. Minimal walking or standing as needed.
Hazards
Minimal exposure to hazards are typically found in general office environment where there is rarely to no exposure to injury or accident.
Work environment
Exposure to routine office noise and equipment
Hiring range for position, if annualized: $156,663 - $191,992
Pay range for position, if annualized: $156,663 - $227,218
Platte River Power Authority offers employees an outstanding benefits package. Benefits offered for this position may include the following:
- Health insurance options including a PPO and high deductible health savings account with prescription drug coverage
- Telemedicine
- Benefit advocacy
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending plan
- Basic life insurance
- Basic accidental death and disability
- Dependent life and supplemental life insurance options (voluntary)
- Accidental death and disability insurance (voluntary)
- Long-term disability insurance
- Retirement plans 401a defined contribution plan 457b deferred compensation plan
- Paid holidays (12 annually)
- Paid time off: personal and sick leave
- Wellness program
- In-house training opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
For additional information, please see our website careers page at: https://www.prpa.org/careers/benefits/
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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Must be legally eligible to work in the United States. Platte River cannot provide employment to applicants who will require sponsorship now or in the future (i.e. H1B visa, OPT status).
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