IT Department Manager - Partner Integration

Enterprise Fleet Management; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare package

401k matching

Profit sharing

Paid time off

Great discounts

Growth potential

Job summary

Enterprise Fleet Management in St. Louis, Missouri, seeks a Department Manager, Partner Integrations, to steer API strategy and centralized integration programs across partner data providers.

You will drive architecture, standards, and onboarding of new partners while aligning with product, architecture, and security teams. You will hire and mentor engineering teams, develop metrics, and shape the UI strategy in collaboration with Enterprise Mobility.

Qualifications

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must reside in the St. Louis, Missouri area or nearby.
• Must be able to work CST core hours.
• Must commit to security in all decisions and responsibilities.
• 8+ years of relevant IT leadership experience.
• Experience delivering transformation and excellence in delivery.
• Experience leading resource planning to support business objectives.
• Proven ability to develop high-performing teams and manage talent.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executives to influence company strategy and cross-functional initiatives.
• Lead API strategy and roadmap for partner integrations, ensuring SLA and cost optimization.
• Build strong relationships across Architecture, Security, Data & Analytics, Product and Business.
• Inspire a culture of innovation, transparency, and accountability to deliver high-value API capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

API strategy

Stakeholder management

Team building

Strategic planning

Security awareness

Executive presence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

Overview

The Information Technology (IT) department of Enterprise Fleet Management builds and implements powerful solutions that help to drive and support the operations of our business spread across the US and Canada. Here, you will be part of a team that creates and delivers leading-edge technologies and expansive systems that impact every aspect of our growing businesses. We provide the resources to enable and develop our innovative I.T. professionals in a variety of career paths.

Overview

The Information Technology (IT) department of Enterprise Fleet Management builds and implements powerful solutions that help to drive and support the operations of our business spread across the US and Canada. Here, you will be part of a team that creates and delivers leading-edge technologies and expansive systems that impact every aspect of our growing businesses. We provide the resources to enable and develop our innovative I.T. professionals in a variety of career paths.

Being a member of EFM IT offers all the advantages of a smaller shop including the opportunity to shape a more progressive architecture. Professionals who effectively navigate change and readily wear many hats will find this an opportunity to maximize skill diversity and build broad IT experience.

Enterprise Fleet Management offers a comprehensive healthcare package, 401k matching & profit sharing, paid time off, great discounts, and organizational growth potential.

Enterprise Fleet Management is a privately held, full-service fleet management business for companies, government agencies and organizations with medium-sized fleets. With more than 50 fully staffed offices nationwide, our team of experts can assemble a customized or full-service fleet management program that is just right for each business. With a North American fleet of 730,000 vehicles and growing at over 7 percent, the opportunity with Enterprise Fleet Management is tremendous. Our business continues to thrive, and we remain committed to the investment in and the development of our people. We do the right thing by our customers and employees every time and in every situation. Not only is that great for business (as seen in our global growth and success) it’s also great for employees.

This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule, which includes the ability to work from home, while also requiring to be in person as needed at our Lakeside and/or Clayton Corporate HQ campus locations in St. Louis, Missouri.

Responsibilities

The Fleet Management IT Department Manager - Partner Integrations plays a critical leadership role in shaping and executing our partner integration strategy. This position is responsible for designing, enhancing, and governing centralized integration frameworks for connected vehicle, fuel, and other strategic data providers, while enabling scalable and efficient onboarding of future partners.

In addition to partner integrations, this role will oversee the alignment of standards and best practices for other key capabilities, including QA Automation, UX Design, and Front-end Development for internal applications.

The Department Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of foundational integration solutions, including defining architecture, establishing aligned standards, producing comprehensive documentation, and overseeing development and implementation. This role also plays a key part in shaping and driving EFM’s UI development strategy, partnering with peer leaders across Enterprise Mobility to ensure alignment, consistency, and scalability.

You will collaborate and provide thought leadership with leaders across Product, Architecture, Business, and EM IT Solution teams to advance and refine our multi-year technology strategy. You will align with these leaders on priorities and investment across new capabilities, optimizations, and operational support based on industry and company readiness. You will be responsible for financial, operational, and security health monthly metrics around that investment.

The Department Manager of Partner Integrations will hire, lead, and mentor world-class development teams with the ability to not only keep pace with, but also pioneer, this constantly evolving space. You will be responsible for talent development of engineers and leaders, developing a strong partnership with Product, as well as engineering, financial management, and health (operational/security) of Partner Integrations.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Expert Collaboration and Influence – Collaborate with and influence leadership to directly impact company strategy and direction. Develop deep partnerships with architecture, product, and other engineering teams to deliver on major cross-functional initiatives. Communicate effectively to all levels of the organization, including executives.
• Long-range Product Leadership – Execute a comprehensive API strategy aligned with the organization’s goals while building and managing an amazing team of high-performing individuals.Lead the organization’s efforts to establish a roadmapof API capabilities to power the next round of API innovation for Enterprise Mobility. Capabilities must be directionally aligned with the industry’s best practices and company priorities while also being designed for SLA satisfaction and optimized for cost. Establish methods and processes for managing API products.
• Building Meaningful Relationships – Build and establish meaningful relationships across various stakeholders in IT (including Architecture and Security), Data & Analytics, Product and the Business. Demonstrate a combination of excellent communication skills, strong emotional intelligence, and a genuine interest in others. Build a network of people both inside and outside the organization to gain new perspectives and insights around data needs.
• Leading and Inspiring People – Build and cultivate a culture of innovation, transparency, alignment, standardization, professional development and accountability to deliver high value API capabilities and support the company’s entrepreneurial and agile spirit.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to apply problem solving, critical thinking and challenging the status quo to simplify and standardize practices and improve quality across the department
• High degree of executive presence with ability to influence and collaborate throughout all levels of the organization
• Ability to attract and develop employees capable of achieving the goals and objectives of the company; past success identifying and targeting talent for new opportunities for further individual and organizational development
• Superb relationship management skills

This is an exciting opportunity for an invested, strategic leader to lead this highly foundational domain to help power the growth of Enterprise Fleet Management! If you are a strong performing IT Senior Manager looking to take that next step, join this team and deliver on our promise to enable our employees’, customers’, and partners’ mobility journeys!

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Qualifications

Required:

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area
• Must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours.
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities
• 8 or more years of relevant experience
• Experience successfully contributing towarda culture of transformation and excellence in delivery
• Experience leading and managing resource planning to support business objectives
• Prior success developing high performing teams through executing responsibilities including career planning/support, training, interviewing, hiring, rewarding, disciplining, performance and salary reviews, and executing employee engagement programs
• Experience designing and using impactful and relevant metrics to manage customer, team, and organizational outcomes
• Proven success championing the strategic direction of an organization including the ability to articulate a clear, concise strategic vision and direction of the company
• Commitment to protecting our customers, our employees, and our brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions; ensures security policy and procedure requirements are met; continuously identifies opportunities for improvements and implements strategies to advance our security posture

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred
• Provide leadership in establishing and implementing standards, guidelines and best practices for the development, deployment, and support of technical solutions
• Apply personal best practices in staying current with security and technology trends
• Lead high-quality execution of transformational process improvement initiatives
• A strong passion and desire to succeed, deliver impactful capabilities that support our customers and our company, to grow individually, to develop others and protect our people