Senior Director, Commercial & Customer Platforms

Aristocrat Technologies Us•Las Vegas, NV

24d•$227,920 - $423,280•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Commercial & Customer Platforms is a critical leader in Corporate IT who leads multi-disciplinary teams, develops delivery practices, and steers the platforms that power Aristocrat's customer and commercial operations at enterprise scale. This role sets strategy and drives execution across Salesforce (Revenue Cloud/CPQ, Service Cloud, Field Service, Marketing, and Agentforce), leads CRM consolidation to a global target-state architecture, and partners with Data/MDM and Integration (MuleSoft) teams to deliver a unified view of customers, products, and pipeline. The ideal candidate brings deep enterprise CRM expertise—especially Salesforce—plus adjacent capabilities across CPQ, customer portals, marketing automation, field service, and contact center technologies; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a plus. They combine functional domain knowledge with the program leadership and software engineering rigor required to deliver complex platforms at scale. Reporting to the SVP of Global IT Delivery, this role encourages building and nurturing client relationships with business partners, project management staff, IT Apps leadership, infrastructure, and architecture leaders.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred in business administration, communications, computer science, project management, engineering; an advanced degree is preferred
At least five years of experience leading engineering teams at a senior level. manager level or higher, with a minimum of five years of driving a Salesforce delivery organization.
At least ten years of experience in engineering in SAAS delivery projects, huge plus to have Salesforce experience, with recent experience directly supervising a staff of 10+ engineers/BAs/system admins/Data analysts
Proven success in guiding innovation and deploying new technologies
Demonstrated expertise in deploying Field Service, CRM, CPQ, and Marketing applications
Strong communication skills - verbal and written, with proficiency in the MS Office suite
Collaborative leader with high emotional intelligence and a high learning agility for the technical domain
Willing to travel on project assignments, as needed (25%)

Responsibilities

Identify technology choices to enable modern CRM, CPQ, marketing automation, and field service environments that support Aristocrat's vision for customer engagement, quote-to-order pipeline, sales operations, and field service automation.
Implement quality throughout the data engineering and integration lifecycle with clear measures, important metrics, and executive dashboards.
Guide the IT organization toward commercial transformation goals, aligning roadmap, resources, and outcomes.
Identify suitable projects and initiatives; guide them from ideation through delivery, meeting scope, schedule, and budget with measurable, high-quality outcomes.
Oversee projects and programs across the nine PMBOK knowledge areas: integration, scope, schedule, cost/budget, quality, resources, communications, risk, and procurement.
Review and approve key project documents (e.g., charter, project plan, risk register/response plan, communications plan); design and guide activities (requirements, design reviews, governance meetings).
Exhibit proficiency in delivery/engineering methodologies (Agile, SAFe, Lean/Six Sigma); drive continuous improvement.
Run collaborator forums and team ceremonies to build transparent status, risks, dependencies, and constraints.
Proactively identify and manage risks, including mitigation, remediation, and contingency strategies.
Engage and influence project teams, business leaders, and executives with clear decision framing and trade-offs.
Recruit, manage, and develop the Global Commercial Engineering managers and staff; build succession and capability pipelines.
Stay up to date with enterprise application guidelines; maintain relevant professional certifications.
Build a highly engaged, technically excellent engineering organization aligned to business outcomes.
Develop team and engineering processes for efficiency, effectiveness, and quality; define and supervise operating metrics.
Achieve department goals by planning and evaluating activities and creating growth opportunities for the team.
Lead programs/projects using best-practice methodologies with culturally appropriate approaches to reach desired end states.
Partner closely with IT business partners to translate requirements, validate scope, and reassess approach as new information emerges.
Design, implement, and continuously improve processes and procedures across delivery and operations.
Drive operational excellence to improve performance, enhance value, reduce waste, streamline processes, and lower costs/errors/defects, improving important metrics.