Director, Digital Enterprise Platforms

Neptune - HQ
1600 Alabama Highway 229
Tallassee, AL 36078, USA

Neptune Technology Group is a leading provider of smart water management solutions, serving utilities across North America with advanced metering infrastructure, data analytics, and field service technology. As a Roper Technologies company, Neptune combines the agility of a focused business with the resources of a global technology portfolio. We are in the middle of a bold digital transformation, modernizing our ERP, data, and application landscape, and this role sits at the center of that effort.

The Opportunity

Neptune is looking for a Director, Digital Enterprise Platforms to lead our enterprise applications portfolio, data platform strategy, and major transformation programs. This person will also build the business partnership model that connects technology investment to outcomes across every function in the company.

This is a high-visibility leadership role that combines strategic vision with execution accountability. You will own Neptune's most consequential technology programs, from ERP and PLM modernization to our cloud data platform. You will also establish how the Digital Enterprise Platforms organization operates as a trusted partner to all parts of the business including Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Services, and Supply Chain, maturing our Functional Technology Partner capability into a full business relationship model that ties technology delivery to measurable business value.

Reporting directly to the CIO, you will build and lead a team spanning Functional Technology Partners, enterprise architecture, software development, data governance, and enterprise quality assurance. You will serve as the primary technology voice for enterprise systems at the executive level and will drive Neptune's transition from project-based delivery to a product operating model where enterprise platforms are treated as continuously-invested business capabilities, not one-time implementations.

What You ll Own

Enterprise Applications Portfolio

• Own and govern the full lifecycle of Neptune's enterprise application estate, including ERP, CRM, PLM (PTC Windchill), MES, and cloud integration platforms.
• Define application roadmaps aligned to business strategy, corporate guidelines, financial controllership, and go-live timing constraints.
• Lead application rationalization, decommissioning, and fit-gap assessments to reduce technical debt, drive future-ready modernization, and support long-term scalability.
• Maintain a business capability map that connects Neptune's functional needs across all parts of the business including Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Services, and Supply Chain to the enabling technology landscape, making gaps and investment opportunities visible to leadership.

Business Partnership and Value Realization

• Establish and own Neptune's formal business partnership model for enterprise technology, with named accountability as the technology partner for each major business function.
• Build and lead the Functional Technology Partner organization, evolving the existing product ownership capability into a model where each partner owns demand intake, roadmap co-ownership, and outcome accountability with their aligned business unit. Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Services, and Supply Chain each have a named technology partner who sits in their planning cycles, understands their strategy, and is measured on the outcomes their function realizes from technology investment.
• Own value realization tracking post-implementation: define benefit baselines before programs launch and measure realized outcomes after go-live, including cycle time, cost reduction, data quality, and adoption rates, and report results to executive stakeholders.
• Lead annual technology investment planning with business unit leaders, ensuring the Digital Enterprise Platforms roadmap reflects cross-functional priorities and is funded against measurable business outcomes.

Major Program Delivery

• Serve as program governance lead for Neptune's digital transformation programs, managing scope, budget, timeline, risk, and steering committee accountability across multi-year, multi-track delivery efforts.
• Oversee system-of-record decisions for critical data across platforms, ensuring alignment across ERP, PLM, MES, and CRM.
• Partner with the business on vendor selection processes including RFP development, SI evaluation, scoring, and contract negotiation.
• Drive change management strategies in partnership with business leaders to ensure system adoption translates to realized capability improvements.

Data Platform and Governance

• Define, mature, and execute Neptune's enterprise data strategy, including data governance policy, master data management (MDM), and cloud data platform architecture.
• Establish governance processes covering data lineage, ownership, quality controls, staging workflows, and access management to build governed data foundations that support operational and executive decision-making.
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