Business Solutions Design Manager – Higher Education Body
* Permanent Position
* 35 hours per week
* Dublin City Centre
* Hybrid
* €70,240
The Role
You'll manage a Business/Application Design team responsible for shaping, developing and enhancing core enterprise systems - including a major student information system (SITS) and a range of integrated HR, Finance, Research, Library and Identity systems. This role combines people leadership with hands-on solution design, technical analysis and continuous improvement across a busy change pipeline.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead, mentor and develop a team of systems/business analysts.
* Own end-to-end solution design: requirements, analysis, configuration, documentation, testing and sign-off.
* Oversee ongoing configuration and optimisation of the SITS student system.
* Define and maintain best practices for enterprise applications, integrations and automation (e.g., Power Apps).
* Partner closely with stakeholders, project teams and vendors to deliver secure, scalable, future-proof solutions.
* Prioritise workloads, manage a large solutions portfolio and ensure strong governance, standards and documentation.
* Support upgrades, regression testing and lifecycle activities across key university systems.
* Ideal Background
* Strong leadership experience within application design, business analysis or enterprise systems.
* Proven track record delivering complex solutions in highly integrated environments.
* Expertise with student information systems (SITS) or similar large-scale platforms is a major advantage.
* Skilled in requirements gathering, system configuration, testing and solution governance.
* Comfortable working across multiple stakeholders in a structured IT environment.
Requirements
* IT-related degree.
* Strong SQL Server, SSIS, T-SQL and Oracle PL/SQL skills.
* Solid experience across the full solutions lifecycle, requirements, testing and delivery.
* Strong integration/API knowledge and enterprise system configuration experience (incl. SITS ideal).
* Skilled with PowerApps, Excel and tools like Azure DevOps.
* 5+ years in enterprise/business systems design at a managerial level.
* Excellent communication, analysis and problem-solving skills.
* Quality-focused, collaborative, customer-oriented and flexible.