Connexus Credit Union

Vice President, Enterprise Applications – Solution Delivery

Connexus Credit Union

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Provide technology leadership for the transformation and lifecycle management of enterprise applications, directing the modernization of core banking, lending, corporate, and digital platforms while ensuring successful delivery of large-scale, mission-critical technology programs.
  • Serve as the primary technology partner to business leaders, ensuring strong alignment between technology strategy and organizational goals.
  • Define and execute multi-year technology strategies and roadmaps that optimize business outcomes and incorporate emerging trends, competitive insights, and industry best practices.
  • Champion innovation and advance the credit union’s use of artificial intelligence, identifying opportunities to enhance user experience, operational efficiency, and strategic decision-making.
  • Drive engineering excellence and solution delivery, ensuring architectures and implementations meet business requirements, scalability targets, performance goals, and security expectations.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of existing applications and lead strategies to improve, consolidate, or enhance systems as needed.
  • Ensure seamless integration of new software and technologies into the enterprise environment, aligning with functional, compliance, and interoperability standards.
  • Identify and champion new technologies that improve availability, performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
  • Direct large-scale application development efforts, leveraging strong technical judgment, subject-matter expertise, and collaboration with internal teams and external partners.
  • Oversee feasibility studies, solution assessments, vendor evaluations, and procurement recommendations for software products and services.
  • Establish and enforce policies, standards, and best practices for application development, quality assurance, configuration management, and change control.
  • Ensure application reliability, stability, and resiliency through sound operational practices and proactive issue identification and resolution.
  • Develop and manage departmental budgets, resource plans, and operating forecasts.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of directors, managers, engineers, analysts, and administrators, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Comply with all Federal regulations as they pertain to job duties, including the Bank Secrecy Act.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience is Required.
  • 8+ years’ experience in people leadership of a mid-to-large sized organization is Required.
  • 10+ years’ related experience in technology roles within a credit union or banking institution is Required.
  • Prior experience leading transformational technology initiatives is Required.
  • Demonstrated cross-functional understanding of financial institution operations, regulatory expectations, and technology implications is Required.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise systems and applications, including architecture, integration patterns, development methodologies, and lifecycle management is Required.
Benefits
  • 25 days of paid time off and 10 paid holidays
  • 16 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off
  • 401K Retirement with up to 6% employer match
  • Excellent Health, Dental, Vision insurance, including multiple plan options
  • Health Savings Account with generous employer contributions
  • Employer paid Life insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  • Tuition Reimbursement from $4,000 - $7,000 per calendar year
  • Robust Learning and Development program that includes an annual professional development stipend

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
enterprise applicationscore bankinglending platformsdigital platformsapplication developmentarchitectureintegration patternsdevelopment methodologieslifecycle managementartificial intelligence
Soft skills
technology leadershipcollaborationmentoringinnovationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementstrategic decision-makingcommunicationproblem-solvingteam development
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeBank Secrecy Act compliance