Director of Enterprise Applications

What We're Looking For: 

The Director of Enterprise Applications leads Barge’s Enterprise Applications Center of Excellence (COE) and is accountable for the stability, standardization, and intentional ownership of the firm’s most critical business and delivery platforms. This role ensures systems of record and delivery‑critical platforms—including ERP, CRM, CAD/BIM, GIS, and HR systems—are reliable, trusted, and consistently used so projects start clean, data is dependable, and teams can deliver predictable outcomes.

This role prioritizes high‑value improvements that reduce friction and improve adoption, while protecting platform reliability and delivery stability.  This role owns the strategy for the evolution of enterprise applications over time to better support delivery, scalability, and decision‑making. The Director ensures platforms remain relevant and valuable as the firm grows enabling employees and operations, while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Enterprise Applications COE, including CAD/BIM, GIS standards, ERP, CRM, and HR platforms
• Establish clear ownership, standards, and operating expectations for delivery‑critical systems
• Define and maintain a forward‑looking view of enterprise application evolution, informed by delivery outcomes, operational pain points, and business strategy, vendor roadmaps and trends
• Protect COE capacity for standards, administration, and platform health (non‑billable focus where applicable)
• Own platform standards, configurations, and governance that directly impact project setup, quality, and rework
• Ensure platforms are stable, predictable, and intentionally owned; prevent fragmentation, duplicate tooling, and inconsistent usage
• Identify and lead select, high‑value improvements that reduce friction, improve adoption, or strengthen delivery outcomes
• Partner with IT, Data and Innovation to ensure enterprise platforms integrate cleanly into downstream workflows and reporting
• Partner with IT on security, access, reliability, and lifecycle management to protect operational stability
• Define practical governance for enterprise platforms that protect reliability
• Establish measures of success and communicate progress (standards adoption, reduced setup time, improved data quality, fewer workarounds)
•  Build and lead a strong COE team focused on standards, enablement, and platform health
• Set clear expectations and accountability while fostering trust with delivery teams
• Develop talent with deep platform expertise and strong business awareness

Expectations:

• Enterprise platforms are stable, trusted, and consistently used across the firm
• Delivery teams experience fewer surprises, less rework, and clearer starting points for projects
• Platform decisions are deliberate, well‑communicated, and aligned to business outcomes
• Enterprise Applications set the standards for delivery and improve overall delivery speed and quality

 Education & Experience Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, engineering, architecture, construction technology, or other relevant experience
• Master’s degree in a related field preferred
• 8+ years of experience with enterprise applications and/or design technology platforms, including leadership responsibility
• Demonstrated experience owning or governing systems of record and delivery‑critical platforms (e.g., ERP, CRM, CAD/BIM, GIS, HR systems)
• Experience establishing standards, governance, and operating models that improve adoption and consistency across teams
• Strong business partnership skills with the ability to work across Client Centers, Solution Centers and Business Services teams
• Strong understanding of how enterprise platforms support project delivery, financial performance, and operational decision‑making
• Ability to balance long‑term platform vision with near‑term delivery realities; comfortable holding a point of view on where platforms should go, while adjusting based on evidence and feedback
• Ability to balance stability and standardization with improvement and modernization
• Clear communicator who can translate platform decisions and standards into business impact
• Strong judgment and prioritization skills; comfortable saying no to protect platform integrity
• Ability to influence and drive adoption through clarity and trust and value realization
  

• Ability to negotiate differing opinions and prioritize competing priorities

•  Ability to broker decisions across vested parties and hold boundaries

Why join us? 

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
  
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
  
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.
  

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

 Agency Submissions

No unsolicited agency submissions. Barge Design Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or staffing agencies. Any unsolicited resume becomes the property of Barge Design Solutions, and no fee will be paid for resulting hires. Only agencies with a signed agreement are authorized to submit candidates.