Director, Business Applications & Integration

Position Announcement

Job Title:

Director, Business Applications & Integration

Organization:
National Endowment for Financial Education

Reports To:

Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness & Operations

Location:

Downtown Denver, Colorado – Up to 50% remote work is offered

Type:
Full-Time, Exempt

At the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), we champion effective financial education. We are the independent, centralizing voice providing leadership, research, and collaboration to advance financial well‑being. We do this by mobilizing and inspiring educators, researchers, and advocates nationwide to maximize the impact of financial education. We work hard to remove barriers, amplify outcomes, and elevate effective models through leadership, research, and collaboration.

We believe this is important because everyone deserves the opportunity to live their best financial life and that equitable and effective financial education makes it easier for everyone to navigate the financial system, creating a more just society.

The Director, Business Applications & Integration leads and executes the phased modernization, integration, and optimization of the organization’s core business systems over a multi‑year roadmap aligned with strategic priorities and organizational capacity.

We are a nationally recognized organization operating with a focused team and a business systems landscape that is actively evolving. We are strengthening our application foundation and integrations while improving consistency and stability. This role serves as the organization’s senior technical lead for business applications and integrations in a fast‑moving, build‑and‑improve environment.

This is a director‑level individual contributor role that leads major initiatives end‑to‑end without direct people management. The role provides lateral leadership across teams, guiding implementation, facilitating decisions, and driving adoption, while taking ownership for delivery through stabilization. Success requires high autonomy, strong relationships, and the ability to translate ambiguity into durable, scalable solutions.

The Director partners closely with the Senior Manager of Technology to ensure alignment between business applications and infrastructure, identity, and security standards.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships using emotional intelligence and lateral leadership to ensure systems are understood, adopted and aligned with business needs.
• Translate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and integration impacts into clear recommendations for executives and non-technical stakeholders, enabling timely decisions and adoption.
• Lead and execute phased modernization and integration of core business applications over a multi‑year roadmap, working with high autonomy, turning ambiguity into action and leading laterally to keep delivery moving.
• Collaborate with the Senior Manager of Technology and external providers to align application-layer changes with infrastructure, identity, and security requirements, surfacing risks early without slowing execution.
• Lead technical aspects of system transitions to ensure stable, effective rollouts through sequencing, transition planning, enablement materials and adoption support for varied work styles.
• Lead hands‑on implementations (configuration, customization, data migration, testing, deployment) with limited guidance, proactively managing dependencies and ensuring stable rollouts.
• Design and personally implement integrations using APIs, automation tools, middleware and structured data synchronization methods, iterating quickly and hardening solutions for reliability as needs evolve.
• Design and implement KPI metrics and reporting pipelines that reduce manual entry and strengthen business intelligence, partnering with stakeholders on clear definitions and organization‑wide usability.
• Develop and maintain cross-system data models, documentation and governance standards to sustain consistency, clarity, and long‑term maintainability across teams.
• Evaluate, integrate, or rationalize third‑party systems and data sources to…