Information Systems & Business Applications Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning

• Participate in IS Department operational and strategic planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources.

Acquisition & Deployment

       Participation in

• Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IS platforms.
• Manage financial aspects of the IS Department, including purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IS spending and initiatives.
• Develop and implement all IS policies and procedures, including usage, authorization, data integrity, etc.
• Govern enterprise system designs and architecture to ensure overall design and structure is maintained throughout continuous improvements.
• Coordinate IT infrastructure policies and plans with IT Manager to support applications strategy and requirements.
• Negotiate and administer vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements throughout the full life cycle of RFP, selection, to contracting.

Operational Responsibility

• Supervising the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IS systems, including coordination of infrastructure servers, software, and peripherals with IT.
• Provide the business end-users with the needed training and second level support on all information systems
• Work with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations.
• Direct research on potential technology solutions in support of procurement efforts.
• Keep current with the latest technologies.
• Participation in the preparation of projects and the portfolio of projects and supervision of them.