Assistant Vice President, Academic Engineering

University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) seeks an experienced servant leader as our next Assistant Vice President, Academic Experience Engineering (AVP). Reporting to the Vice President, Platform Engineering, this AVP is responsible for leading teams handling the engineering, modernization, escalated support, and continuous improvement of the applications and platforms that enable UMGC’s teaching and learning environment. This role oversees application engineering teams supporting the Learning Management System (LMS), Curriculum and Course Management Systems (CCMS), virtual labs, instructional technology applications, academic content and assessment solutions, faculty-facing tools, as well as related learning platforms and integrations.

The AVP collaborates with academic and business leaders, Business Relationship Managers, Enterprise Architecture, Domain and Solution Architects, Data, Integrations, Cybersecurity, Quality Management, Release Enablement, IT Operations, and external partners to deliver secure, accessible, scalable, and reliable solutions that advance instructional effectiveness, learner success, and UMGC’s academic priorities. Position is hybrid with 2-3 days/week in office. Relocation to the Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia metro area is required.

• Teaching & Learning Applications Strategy, Modernization & Domain Alignment. Partner with enterprise and domain architecture to develop and execute applications strategies and investments across multiple technology domains, initiatives, modernization, and lifecycle plans ensuring alignment with architecture standards, business priorities, cybersecurity requirements, and technology direction.
• Learning Platform Engineering, Integration & Solution Delivery. Accountable for high quality, efficient design, development, configuration, integration, testing, implementation, and escalated support of the LMS, curriculum and course management platforms, virtual labs, instructional applications, assessment tools, academic content solutions, and related technologies that support effective teaching and learning experiences; also responsible for the academic experience engineering budget.
• Application Lifecycle Management, Reliability & Service Excellence. Work with architects to provide leadership for teaching and learning application lifecycle planning, platform currency, technical debt reduction, performance optimization, capacity management, Tier 3 issue resolution, service continuity, and continuous improvement to ensure critical academic technologies remain available, reliable, secure, scalable, and supportable.
• Engineering Governance, Quality, Accessibility & Delivery Performance. Partner with domain architects to establish engineering governance and performance measures while collaborating with Quality Management and Release Enablement teams to support effective testing, usability validation, quality assurance, release readiness, and deployment activities.
• Academic Partnership, Technology Enablement & Vendor Management. Partner with Business Relationship Managers, Enterprise Architecture, Architects, PMO, business leaders, Data, Integrations, Cybersecurity, and IT Operations to understand requirements, evaluate solutions, manage vendor relationships, and deliver technology that enables UMGC objectives and digital initiatives.
• Leadership, Workforce Development & Organizational Effectiveness. Lead and develop application engineering managers, solution architects, and engineers through workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, coaching,…