Director, Business Enablement

Sierra Space Careers: Dare to Dream

About the Role

As the Director of Business Systems Enablement, you will oversee a multidisciplinary team, including the SAP Center of Excellence, IT Project Management Office (PMO), and the data team. In this strategic and hands-on role, you will act as the application architect while collaborating with key stakeholders to develop and enhance Sierra Space’s integrated digital systems. Your primary focus will be on streamlining operations using SAP, Dassian, and other integrated systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Oversight: Provide strategic direction for the SAP Center of Excellence, IT PMO functions, and the data team, ensuring all initiatives align with organizational goals.

• Project Management: Oversee the intake and triage of tickets and projects, ensuring appropriate prioritization and resource allocation.

• Team Leadership: Manage a diverse team, driving productivity and resolving conflicts/issues to keep projects on track.

• Feature and Process Clarity: Ensure that feature requests, business processes, and bug fixes are clearly understood, documented, and effectively communicated.

• Systems Integration: Oversee the end-to-end issue resolution across highly integrated systems, working closely with technical and development teams to maintain and enhance system integrations.

• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the Engineering Enablement Group to ensure seamless integration between business systems and engineering systems and applications.

• Optimization & Cost Reduction: Optimize business systems and drive cost reduction whenever possible.

• AI Capabilities: Focus on introducing and integrating AI capabilities into business and engineering systems.

• Staffing & Resource Planning: Assess and ensure the SAP support team is adequately staffed, sourcing additional resources as necessary through temporary subcontracting or other means.

• Roadmap Development: Generate and maintain roadmaps that chart strategic initiatives and track progress against plans.

• Communication Strategies: Develop and implement communication strategies to keep business users informed of system designs, enhancements, and changes.

• IT PMO Leadership: Direct IT PMO functions, ensuring successful project planning, execution, and delivery.

• Data Management: Oversee the data team responsible for enterprise data warehouse, data quality, data governance, and enterprise metrics and reporting. Ensure data integrity, governance, and strategic data utilization.

About You:

Our mission is driven by the unwavering passion to push the boundaries of what is possible. We seek those who Dare to Dream — to envision the extraordinary and pursue it relentlessly – to join us on this transformational journey.  

We’re looking for dreamers who align with our values, vision and audacious goals – while also meeting the minimum qualifications below. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education.

• Possess an understanding of hypervisors, automation/orchestration of IaaS/PaaS cloud services.

• Successful, progressive leadership experience in a highly-matrixed environment, including recruiting, building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams.

• Experience managing hybrid cloud services.

• Demonstrated success in long-term planning and adapting to immediate changing customer demands.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Typically, 8-10 years of relevant experience; higher education may substitute for relevant experience.

• Experience managing multiple teams, including a team of 6 or more individual contributors.

• Experience defining and executing a cloud strategy, including hybrid cloud orchestration and automation.

• Demonstrated experience in improving IT continuity frameworks and plans.

• Strong project management and delivery methodologies.

• Experience defining a configuration and optimization strategy for infrastructure components, aligning with overarching business and IT strategies.

• Experience in introducing and integrating AI capabilities into business systems.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

Estimated Starting Salary Range:

$186,100.35 – $255,887.98

At Sierra Space we are at the very doorstep of unlocking the future and the work in front of us is hard, but it is truly important and meaningful. Achieving our mission requires dedication, relentless pursuit of a dream and an unwavering passion for pushing the boundaries to accomplish what others might believe to be impossible. We seek those who too, Dare to Dream and will join us in a pursuit to achieve the extraordinary.

Application Deadline: This role will remain posted until a qualified pool of candidates is identified.

Please note: Sierra Space does not accept unsolicited resumes from contract agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited resumes submitted to our website or to Sierra Space team members not through our approved vendor list or Talent Acquisition will be considered property of Sierra Space, and we will not be obligated to pay any referral fees.

Sierra Space Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need special assistance or a reasonable accommodation related to applying for employment with Sierra Space or at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us.