Senior Manager of Enterprise Technologies

Summit Utilities

Join our Growing Team and see why Summit Utilities, Inc was named as one of the Fastest Growing Denver Area Private Companies 2019 and 2020;
Best Places to Work in Maine 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and Best Places to Work in Arkansas 2020 and 2023, Oklahoma 2022 and 2023 and Missouri 2023. Summit was also recently named one of Forbes 2023 America's Best Small Employers.

Summit is a growing natural gas utility providing safe, reliable, and clean burning natural gas service to homes and businesses in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Being part of the Summit team means embracing excellence and innovation, committing to safety each and every day, and doing all that we can to serve each other, our customers, and the communities where we live.

We aim to bring warmth and energy to everything we do.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager of Enterprise Technologies (SGL
38). This role may be hybrid-based in one of our offices in Arkansas or Oklahoma; or remote in Texas.

The Senior Manager of Enterprise Technologies is a senior IT leadership role responsible for the overall technology direction, stability, security, and evolution of the company's enterprise application and platform landscape. This position provides strategic oversight and day-to-day leadership across ERP platforms (SAP and Oracle), custom applications, SaaS solutions, integrations, APIs, cloud technologies, architecture, and application support functions.

This role serves as a key technology authority for enterprise system architecture and platform decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, performant, scalable, supportable, and aligned with business priorities and regulatory requirements typical of a natural gas utility. The Senior Manager partners closely with IT leadership, functional leaders, cybersecurity, infrastructure, external vendors, and business stakeholders to establish best practices for system architecture, software delivery, integration design, platform management, operational excellence, and technology governance.

The position provides leadership across the software development lifecycle, custom application delivery, integration strategy, cloud and SaaS platform management, technology modernization, and enterprise application lifecycle planning. Experience with ERP platforms is important, and SAP experience is preferred.

This role is ideal for a leader who combines broad enterprise technology expertise with strong people leadership, a forward-looking mindset, and a practical understanding of how technology enables business operations. A strong customer service-oriented mindset is essential, and experience in the utilities sector is preferred.

• Provide leadership, coaching, and performance management for teams responsible for enterprise applications, custom development, platform administration, integrations, system architecture, and application support.
  
  Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability across technical and delivery teams to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes.
  
  Support professional development through mentoring, skills advancement, and career pathing aligned with evolving enterprise technologies.
  
  Promote a collaborative culture between architecture, development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, operations, vendors, and business partners to ensure cohesive solution delivery.

• Own and evolve the enterprise technology architecture strategy for SAP and Oracle ERP platforms, custom applications, cloud services, SaaS platforms, integrations, APIs, and related business systems.
  
  Define and enforce architectural standards, design principles, and technology governance for new solutions, enhancements, integrations, and custom development.
  
  Lead technical and architectural reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security expectations, performance needs, scalability, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.
  
  Balance innovation and extensibility with long-term supportability, operational stability, cost effectiveness, and risk management.

• Provide strategic direction and oversight for custom application development, workflow automation, configuration, enhancements, and platform extensions across enterprise systems.
  
  Establish governance for the software development lifecycle, including requirements, solution design, development, testing, deployment, release management, and production support.
  
  Ensure development practices follow secure coding standards, code quality expectations, performance best practices, documentation standards, and deployment controls.
  
  Guide decisions on application modernization, technical debt reduction, reusable components, clean architecture, and appropriate use of low-code, cloud-native, and platform-native capabilities.

• Oversee platform…