Assistant Director of HR IT Services

Overview

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University Information Services (UIS) provides technical services and enterprise applications to the University of Colorado’s four campuses and the Office of the President. UIS is committed to excellence in customer service, technical expertise, and the development of enterprise applications that support CU’s students, faculty, staff, and others.

The Assistant Director of HR IT Services serves as the People Soft HR Systems Product Owner and is responsible for maximizing the value, performance, and stability of the organization’s People Soft Human Capital Management system. This role owns the functional vision and roadmap for People Soft HCM and its connected applications, ensuring alignment with HR strategy, operational requirements, and enterprise technology standards.

This position collaborates with Campus Stakeholder groups, Chief Human Resource Officers, Employee Services Leadership and Staff, and other module Application Managers to align institutional business requirements with functional capabilities within the HCM system. The Assistant Director will have responsibility for projects, functions, and processes within People Soft HCM. This position may recommend strategy and provide professional support to the Director of HR IT Services and may have the authority to act on the Director's behalf.

A key contributing value of this role is to help resolve unforeseen obstacles and issues involving people and technology.

This position reports to the Director of HR IT Services and is exempt from the State of Colorado Classified Staff system.

This role is eligible to work remotely within Colorado.

• Responsible for product vision and strategy for the People Soft HCM platform, including Core HR, Position Management, Benefits, Payroll, Time & Labor, HR/GL, and other deployed modules.
• Dotted line for Solutions Team Managers across the team, serving as a consultant and mentor on product design and managing initiatives.
• Acts as most senior member of the team and will be called to act on behalf of Director of HR IT Services for operational and personnel activities.
• Participate and represent HCM Systems within UIS Assistant Director layer by attending Assistant Director meetings and participate in a leadership role for decision making alongside Director of HR IT Services.
• Meet at least weekly with other product managers on the team to guide prioritization of work, aligning overall team priorities and balancing resources.
• Work closely with Employee Services personnel and Campus Leads to ensure the system is subscribing to upcoming maintenance requirements, regulatory updates, PUM application releases, and setting the vision for the application roadmap.
• Manage medium-to-large-sized projects and initiatives with cross-functional and technical teams (e.g., open enrollment, People Tools upgrades, PUM Catchup activities).
• Perform system analysis, program specification, systems development, and support during planned and unplanned maintenance windows.
• Lead process improvement for HR IT Services Team.
• Work with technical staff to develop coding/configuration guidelines, governance, and project documentation.
• Influence key technical decisions such as standards, policies, environment selection, architecture and data flows.
• Work with UIS technical development staff to ensure…