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Director, Enterprise Mobility Strategies Job Analysis

Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies Job Analysis

Job Description

The Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies provides strategic direction for our company's global mobility strategies and supporting technologies by managing partners, alliances and ongoing development of new applications and platforms. Leading alliances, partnerships and development agreements with key telecommunications providers, leading a team of global developers to create the next generation of mobility applications on the Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows Phone platforms, and creating state-of-the-art support applications for our global base of employees are the responsibilities of this position.

As the technology strategist for our company, the Director, Enterprise Mobility Strategies will provide our senior management team with strategic direction on mobility IT support and manage the global roadmap for mobility solutions corporate wide. This position reports directly to the Chief Information Officer and must be comfortable collaborating and working in small teams with all C-level executives throughout our organization. This position will also interact with the C-level executives throughout our partnership, customer and reseller organizations globally as each of these organizations require mobility systems and solutions from the Mobility Technologies Team.

Responsibilities

The following are the responsibilities for the Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies position with our organization:

Manage the global support and service functions for cloud mobility technologies across all functional areas of the organization. This includes first-line internal support and service for network performance and integration requests from business units, departments and divisions globally.

Champion the global product and services roadmap for mobility globally, including the support and services factors that will be included from partnerships and alliances, and the inclusion of joint venture development of Asian and European technology partners (Walker-Brown, 2013).

Manage new application and services development on the Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows Phone platforms, orchestrating internal teams and outside contractors and developers. Expertise in Six Sigma project management is preferred fro this aspect of the Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies role.

Provide leadership to system design activities including the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for migrating legacy applications to mobility platforms and ensuring integration to legacy data on next-generation devices (Goldman, 2011).

Lead project team cross-functional meetings, ongoing training and the development of training materials to educate departments and divisions globally as to the progress of mobility initiatives. Speak at the annual customer conference on the future of mobility and how our organization is designing in key requirements today for the future of mobility platforms in each served market (Reynolds, 2008)

Champion the Enterprise Mobility Customer Advisory Council, recruiting the top 10% of customers to participate while also keeping 70% of the council focused on the internal departments and requirements within the organization.

Willingness to travel globally up to 30% of the time.

Requirements

The following are the minimum requirements for the Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies. The requirements for this position are unique in that they require intensive technical expertise combined with proven management and leadership skills:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent science-based degree.

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) preferred from a leading university with a technology management program included in the curriculum completed.

10+ years experience in enterprise software support, including the escalation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), core Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) systems.

Proven expertise with the Apple iOS, Google Android and Windows Mobile operating systems and development environments. Intensive expertise in wireless communications and security technologies.

Agile-based development expertise applied to mobility application development; familiarity with Six Sigma development methodologies and troubleshooting techniques.

Attainment of one or more of the following certifications: CCNA, CCSA, MCTS, MCP and CISSP. Attainment of the Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) is recommended, not required.

Extensive project management expertise including attainment of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from The Project Management Institute is preferred. Intensive expertise with managing and motivating cross-functional teams globally through virtual teaming technologies.

Compensation and Benefits Package

Using the online application Wanted Analytics to define the compensation and benefits package for the Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies, the following specifics of these aspects of the job are defined in this section. As one of the most sought-after skill sets today is cloud computing, and when combined with mobility, these two skill sets together form one of the most potentially lucrative for any experienced IT professional (Goldman, 2011). Wanted Analytics was chosen as a database for completing this analysis given the pervasive coverage they have of the U.S. labor market. Wanted Analytics tracks 8,000 sources of jobs data in real time and also tracks 30,000 jobs board from 250,000 companies. As of 2013, the company has over 800,000 non-duplicated jobs in its database. Wanted Analytics was contacted online and asked for a student login and password to gain access to their service, which often costs thousands of dollars a month for a company to use. Please see the Appendix of this analysis for the results of the queries completed using this online software application.

Figure 1: Director Enterprise Mobility Search Results on Wanted Analytics provides a summary of the most critical factors related to planning the compensation and benefits package for the Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies position. According to Wanted Analytics there are 658 employers who have positions comparable to the defined dream job with 1,585 current openings and a salary range of $91,000 to $111,700. Demand for the skills in this position are very high with the average posting period being 42 days and the Hiring Scale computed by Wanted Analytics of 72. A score of 70 or above on the Wanted Analytics Hiring Scale indicates there are more jobs available than current applicants to such a great extent that that employers are having a difficult time finding qualified candidates. The data from Wanted Analytics also indicates that the combination of project management, product development, software application development and previous management expertise are very difficult to recruit for. All of these factors contribute to the Wanted Analytics Hiring Scale score of 72.