Our client is seeking an experienced and strategic Director, Applications, Data & Integration to join a growing Digital Business Services team. This leadership role is responsible for building and leading enterprise application, data, and integration capabilities while driving modernization through AI-assisted engineering, modern DevOps practices, and enterprise data management.

The position plays a key role in the organization's long-term digital and technology transformation strategy.

Responsibilities Applications & Software Engineering Leadership

- Provide technical leadership and architecture oversight across the enterprise application landscape.
- Establish application architecture, development, and lifecycle standards.
- Guide solution design for current applications and major enhancements.
- Partner with Product Owners to translate business requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
- Provide technical oversight of implementation partners and third-party development resources.
- Build and mature software engineering practices, including development standards, source control, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Establish CI/CD, environment management, and release management capabilities to support controlled and repeatable deployments.
- Embed application security and secure development practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and delivery.
- Drive significant improvements in engineering productivity while maintaining security, quality, and appropriate human oversight.
- Strengthen automated testing, application monitoring, and overall technical quality.

Integration Architecture
- Own enterprise integration architecture and technical integration standards.
- Establish consistent approaches for APIs, interfaces, and system-to-system data exchange.
- Ensure integrations across the application landscape are secure, resilient, supportable, and appropriately monitored.
- Maintain an architectural view of how applications, integrations, and data work together across the enterprise.





Enterprise Applications & Platform Leadership
- Provide technical leadership for enterprise business platforms, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 and related technologies.
- Work with Product Owners and implementation partners on architecture, integration, and technical design.
- Build sufficient internal capability to support, maintain, and extend business platforms over time.
- Ensure platform development aligns with engineering, security, and application management standards.

Data & Analytics
- Develop enterprise data architecture and technical data management practices.
- Build data engineering capabilities to integrate, transform, and make trusted data available across the organization.
- Establish approaches for master data management, data quality, lineage, and technical controls.
- Build and lead emerging data engineering and analytics capabilities.
- Enable consistent enterprise reporting and analytics.
- Partner with business stakeholders on data ownership and governance.

People Leadership
- Build and lead teams spanning application development, integration, quality assurance, data engineering, and analytics.
- Develop technical staff and establish clear engineering expectations and practices.
- Determine the appropriate balance of internal capabilities, implementation partners, and specialized contractors.
- Foster a culture focused on technical quality, accountability, continuous improvement, and effective use of AI-assisted development.

Security & Operational Excellence
- Partner with IT Operations to ensure applications and integrations meet security, resilience, and operational requirements.
- Embed security-by-design principles into application architecture and engineering practices.
- Ensure solutions incorporate appropriate access controls, data protection,



monitoring, and operational support requirements.

Qualifications Required

- Progressive technology leadership experience across enterprise applications, software engineering, integration, and data.
- Demonstrated experience building or maturing software engineering and DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of modern application architecture, APIs, integrations, and cloud platforms.
- Practical experience with CI/CD, automated testing, secure development, and application lifecycle management.
- Experience adopting modern development practices and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software delivery.
- Experience with data architecture, data engineering, analytics, or business intelligence.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and external technology partners.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical teams and business leaders.

Preferred

- Experience with Microsoft technologies, including Dynamics 365 and the broader Microsoft ecosystem.
- Experience leading enterprise technology modernization, digital transformation, or platform modernization initiatives.

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Job Number: 14077

📌 Director, Applications, Data & Integration (British Columbia)
🏢 Affinity
📍 British Columbia