Director of Web Applications Development

Under the general direction of the Associate Vice President of Technology, the Director of Web Applications Development provides strategic and operational leadership for the University’s web application development function. The Director leads a team responsible for planning, designing, developing, integrating, securing, and maintaining enterprise websites, custom applications, application programming interfaces, automation services, and related platforms that support the academic and administrative mission of California Baptist University.

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide direction, leadership, coaching, and work coordination for developers and other assigned staff supporting web applications, enterprise websites, integrations, APIs, background services, and related solutions.
• Partner with University stakeholders to identify business needs, define scope, analyze requirements, establish priorities, manage expectations, and translate functional requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap for web applications and development platforms aligned with institutional priorities, enterprise architecture, information security, accessibility, and service objectives.
• Plan and manage concurrent projects, including schedules, milestones, resources, risks, budgets, dependencies, testing, communications, implementation, and post-launch support.
• Perform and oversee solution architecture, business analysis, software design, development, code review, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and technical documentation as needed.
• Establish and enforce secure software development lifecycle practices, coding standards, source control, peer review, automated testing, release management, change control, and separation of development, test, and production environments.
• Ensure applications follow University information security requirements, including secure coding, identity and access management, least privilege, vulnerability remediation, logging, monitoring, data protection, and incident response support.
• Oversee application lifecycle management and technical debt reduction, including patching, upgrades, dependency management, performance tuning, capacity planning, modernization, and retirement of obsolete solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain integrations among enterprise systems using APIs, web services, data exchanges, middleware, scheduled processes, and other appropriate technologies.
• Oversee database design and application data access involving platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, including data integrity, performance, backup coordination, and appropriate handling of sensitive information.
• Coordinate the configuration, administration, monitoring, and support of web and application hosting environments, whether on premises, cloud based, or vendor hosted.
• Ensure websites and applications meet applicable accessibility requirements and University standards, including Section 504, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
• Promote responsive design, usability, consistent user experience, mobile compatibility, and effective collaboration with communications, marketing, academic, and administrative stakeholders.
• Maintain current and accurate technical, operational, security, architectural, and support documentation for applications, integrations, environments, and key processes.
• Develop service metrics, project status reports, risk summaries, resource projections, and other analyses to support planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate with vendors, consultants, and contractors; participate in product evaluation, procurement, contract review, implementation, and ongoing vendor performance management.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning for critical web applications, including recovery procedures, testing, and documentation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including cloud services, automation, artificial intelligence-assisted development, and modern software engineering practices, and recommend responsible adoption where beneficial.
• Representing ITS in committees, project teams, planning activities, and stakeholder meetings, and foster a collaborative, customer-centered, and service-oriented culture.
• Maintain professional currency through continuing education, conferences, workshops, professional communities, and relevant…