VP, Applications and Data Services
Continental
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sterling Heights • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Oversee and manage the enterprise application ecosystem, reporting directly to the CIO.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to shape IT strategies, governance, and prioritization, translating business objectives into multi-year plans.
- Oversee the lifecycle of enterprise applications across divisions, leading modernization and consolidation efforts to reduce fragmentation and technical debt.
- Partner with functional leaders, ensuring robust system administration, release management, vendor relationships, and platform reliability.
- Lead the development and management of the enterprise data warehouse to enable analytics, AI use cases, and predictive insights, establishing data governance standards and standardized KPIs.
- Direct cross-functional teams supporting business partnerships, analytics, and system upgrades.
- Manage applications and data integrations related to mergers and acquisitions, including creating onboarding playbooks.
- Oversee talent development, managing teams of developers, data engineers, product managers, analysts, and administrators.
- Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and shift the team from reactive support to strategic enablement.
- Ensure alignment of IT initiatives with company strategies while driving innovation and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise applications, data platforms, software development, or analytics.
- 5+ years in IT leadership roles managing cross-functional technology teams.
- Experience leading enterprise application portfolios (ERP, POS, HRIS, Finance, CRM).
- Strong experience with data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, modern data lakes/warehouses, and BI/analytics platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with operations, finance, HR, merchandising, and supply chain leaders.
- Experience in managing technology vendors and third-party partners.
- Experience in a multi-location service, hospitality, food service, logistics, vending, or distribution environment.
- Familiarity with Azure, SQL, Fabric, Power BI, and modern cloud technologies.
- Background in M&A integration or rapid-scaling organizations.
Benefits
- Health Coverage – Medical, Dental and Vision
- Voluntary Life/AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Programs
- Additional Perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
enterprise applicationsdata architectureETLELTdata lakesdata warehousesbusiness intelligenceanalyticssoftware developmentcross-functional technology management
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationstrategic enablementaccountabilitycontinuous improvementvendor managementcommunicationteam managementoperational excellencepartnership development