Associate Director of Enterprise Integrations

Title: Associate Director of Enterprise Integrations

Agency: Northern VA Community College

Location: Fairfax County - 059

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: Commensurate with Experience (Up to $125,000/yr max)

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

The Associate Director of ERP Development provides strategic and technical leadership for the design, development, and maintenance of the institution’s custom development ecosystem, centered around the ERP. This position oversees custom development, integrations, cloud ERP extensions, and modernization initiatives to ensure systems meet evolving academic, administrative, and regulatory needs, and translate those needs into achievable technical scope.

The Associate Director leads a team of developers, establishes development standards and lifecycle governance, and partners closely with functional stakeholders to translate complex business needs into secure, scalable, and sustainable technical solutions.

• Oversee the technical design, development, testing, and deployment of ERP enhancements across functional areas such as Student, Human Resources, and Finance.
• Lead and manage custom development within and alongside the ERP environment, including data pipelines, custom people code and modernization efforts across on‑premises and cloud platforms.
• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate developers, ensuring high‑quality output and adherence to development standards.
• Partner with functional stakeholders to translate business processes into scalable technical solutions within the ERP ecosystem.
• Ensure security, compliance, auditability, and institutional policy alignment for all customizations and integrations.
• Provide leadership in planning and executing testing for major upgrades, cloud migrations, and integration modernization.
• Participate in strategic planning for enterprise systems and contribute to budgeting, staffing, and vendor relationship management.

• Demonstrated ability to provide strategic and technical leadership for large‑scale, enterprise ERP ecosystems supporting complex academic and administrative environments, including distributed presentation, application, and database architectures across on‑premises and cloud platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of ERP technologies, relational databases, and integration patterns, including strong proficiency in SQL and experience with legacy and modern development languages and tools such as COBOL, Java, JavaScript, XML, and related middleware and API frameworks.
• Expertise in ERP integration technologies and methodologies, including APIs, component interfaces, messaging frameworks, integration brokers, and data pipelines to support interoperability with cloud services and external systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex performance, scalability, and functional issues related to customizations, delivered ERP functionality, database logic, and legacy integrations.
• Strong leadership skills in planning, managing, and executing technical initiatives associated with ERP implementations, major upgrades, cloud migrations, and modernization efforts, ensuring alignment with institutional strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, mentor, and evaluate development teams, fostering high‑quality engineering practices, adherence to development standards, and ongoing professional growth across multiple programming languages and technologies.
• Experience partnering with functional and business stakeholders to translate institutional policies and business processes into secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions within an ERP ecosystem.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to manage data integrity, resolve data conflicts, and leverage technology to improve service delivery and operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions, work independently under pressure, and consistently meet deadlines while managing multiple initiatives and stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, architectural decisions, and policy…