Senior Enterprise Applications Engineer
About The Position
Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU! Leads the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise applications, serving as the primary IT resource on assigned projects. Provides advanced troubleshooting, system integrations, automation, and proactive support while ensuring security, stability, and long-term maintainability across systems for supported divisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.
- Five (5) years of related IT experience dealing with increasingly complex systems.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise managing one or more auxiliary related enterprise systems (i.e., operations for point-of-sale systems, card and transactional systems, parking and transportation management systems, and culinary and hospitality systems).
- An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field
- Previous experience working in higher education
Responsibilities
- Leads the full lifecycle implementation and replacement of complex enterprise-scale IT systems, ensuring security, stability, integrity, and recoverability
- Designs, develops, and supports system integrations, automations, and PowerShell-based solutions for efficiency and reporting
- Provides advanced diagnosis, troubleshooting, and resolution of enterprise application issues; serve as an escalation point and mentor for other staff
- Implements and maintains proactive monitoring to ensure application availability, performance, and security
- Performs application upgrades to maintain compatibility, fix bugs, implement new features, and ensure system security
- Collaborates with end-users, administrators, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and optimized solutions
- Creates and maintains thorough documentation of systems, requirements, processes, and procedures, including data flows
- Supports enterprise applications serving the entire campus population, including participation in an on-call rotation for incident response
- Leads projects as the sole IT engineer resource, delivering solutions with minimal oversight while balancing security, resource availability, and long-term maintainability
- Reviews and responds to security scans of enterprise systems, prioritizing and implementing mitigations while ensuring application stability and minimal disruption to services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Educational Services
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
