Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Platforms Engineering
Listed on 2026-10-19
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Management
IT Specialist, Project & Program Management, IT Project Manager
US Exempt Regular
Full time
Stateside Exempt 5.2
Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Platforms Engineering
Office of the Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Exempt, Regular, Full-Time
University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) seeks an experienced servant leader as our next Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Platforms Engineering (AVP). Reporting to the Vice President, Platform Engineering, this AVP is responsible for leading a team of directors overseeing the engineering, modernization, escalated support, and continuous improvement of enterprise applications that enable critical institutional business processes. This role oversees application engineering teams supporting key application domains, including Student Information Systems (SIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Electronic Document Management (EDM), Faculty Profile Management, and related services.
The AVP collaborates with Business Relationship Managers, Enterprise Architecture, Domain and Solution Architects, Data, Integrations, Cybersecurity, Quality Management, Release Enablement, IT Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure delivery of secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions that support UMGC priorities and operational excellence.
Position is hybrid with 2-3 days/week in office. Relocation to the Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia metro area is preferred.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:- Enterprise Platforms 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.
- Engineering, Integration & Solution Delivery. Accountable for high quality, efficient application engineering, testing, and escalated support of enterprise applications, services, workflows, and integrations while following engineering standards, methodologies, and delivery practices that ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability; also responsible for the enterprise platforms engineering budget.
- Management, Operations & Service Excellence. Work with architects to provide guidance on business applications lifecycle planning, Tier 3 operational support, issue resolution, performance optimization, and continuous improvement activities that ensure application reliability, availability, security, and business continuity objectives are achieved.
- Engineering Governance & Delivery Performanc e. Partner with domain architects to establish business applications engineering governance and performance measures while collaborating with Quality Management and Release Enablement teams to support effective testing, quality assurance, release readiness, and deployment activities.
- Business 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, performance management, and organizational leadership practices that strengthen engineering maturity and delivery effectiveness.
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