Kansas City, Missouri, United States · On-site
Description The Director of Business Applications is responsible for the strategy, architecture, delivery, support, and continuous improvement of the Community Foundation's enterprise business application portfolio. This…
Skills: Application Strategy, Enterprise Applications, Salesforce, Technical Roadmap Planning, System Integration
Kansas City, Missouri, United States • On-site
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The Director of Business Applications oversees the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the organization's enterprise application portfolio, including CRM and financial systems. They lead a high-impact team to ensure technology investments are scalable, secure, and aligned with operational goals.
Candidates must have at least 6 years of experience in business applications management and 3 years in a technical leadership role. A bachelor's degree is required, along with proven expertise in system integration, data architecture, and managing enterprise-level platforms like Salesforce.
Description
The Director of Business Applications is responsible for the strategy, architecture, delivery, support, and continuous improvement of the Community Foundation's enterprise business application portfolio. This role ensures that business-critical applications, data integrations, and technology platforms effectively support organizational operations, service delivery, decision-making, and growth.
Reporting to the VP, Information Technology, the Director leads a small, high-impact team responsible for the full lifecycle of business-critical applications, including CRM (Salesforce), financial systems, grant management platforms, and custom-built web applications. The role oversees application strategy, platform performance, technical delivery, integration, and ongoing optimization while evaluating the long-term platform strategy for transactional applications to ensure technology investments remain scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with organizational needs. This position works primarily from the Kansas City office.
The Director partners closely with business leaders to translate operational needs into practical technology solutions, establish application standards and roadmaps, manage vendor relationships, and maximize the value of the organization's application investments. Serving as a trusted advisor, this role helps ensure technology capabilities effectively support the organization's mission, operational objectives, and long-term growth.
Requirements
Application Portfolio Leadership
This job description serves as a summary of the employment-at-will relationship and is not a contract. Responsibilities may evolve, and other duties may be assigned as needed.
Making giving convenient and efficient through donor-advised funds and other charitable giving accounts.
The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation has ranked among the top 1 percent of community foundations in America since 1999, delivering innovative products and services that make charitable giving convenient and efficient for donors. The Community Foundation knows that every gift matters – no matter how big or small – and encourages donors to maximize their giving and support the causes they care about through charitable giving accounts like donor-advised funds. In 2004, the Community Foundation created Greater Horizons to serve those who wish to use the Community Foundation's products and services with the flexibility of a national entity. View our most recent annual report: https://www.growyourgiving.org/annual-report/
Offices: 1055 Broadway Blvd., Suite 130, Kansas City, Missouri 64105, US
Making giving convenient and efficient through donor-advised funds and other charitable giving accounts.
The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation has ranked among the top 1 percent of community foundations in America since 1999, delivering innovative products and services that make charitable giving convenient and efficient for donors. The Community Foundation knows that every gift matters – no matter how big or small – and encourages donors to maximize their giving and support the causes they care about through charitable giving accounts like donor-advised funds. In 2004, the Community Foundation created Greater Horizons to serve those who wish to use the Community Foundation's products and services with the flexibility of a national entity. View our most recent annual report: https://www.growyourgiving.org/annual-report/
Offices: 1055 Broadway Blvd., Suite 130, Kansas City, Missouri 64105, US
