The City of Littleton has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Applications Engineer to join our dynamic and forward-thinking IT team.

The Enterprise Applications Engineer is responsible for the leadership, development, and oversight of program architecture across the organization. This position serves as a subject matter expert across the organization for researching, analyzing, creating, configuring, upgrading, and supporting the city’s enterprise, third party and internally developed software systems. Helping to chart the city’s data and application rationalization strategy will be a key initiative for this position.

This position will come onboard at a time when the City of Littleton is embarking on a variety of new projects, including implementing a new ERP system and will have the opportunity to partner with staff through this ERP life cycle implementation.

The ideal candidate has experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation as well as managing a variety of IT projects including business requirements gathering through user acceptance testing, implementation, and maintenance. The ideal candidate is a people person and strategic partner to our employees and departments and is technically minded with the ability to communicate specifications and requirements in an easy-to-understand way for a variety of audiences.

The City of Littleton is a vibrant community south of Denver and is consistently voted as one of America’s Best Small Cities, and one of Colorado’s top five places to Raise a Family. Home to a charming and historic downtown, a variety of shopping venues, restaurants, parks and trails, there is a lot to offer to the wonderful people who live and work here. The City of Littleton offers outstanding benefits and perks to our employees. For more information, please see the 2023 Benefit Guide.

Hiring Range $110,000 - $125,000 per year

Work Schedule: This is a full-time position and has the option to work a hybrid schedule with some days teleworking and some days working in person at the office. 

Examples of work performed:

• Ensures that different technologies, standards, processes, tools, and architectures are interwoven into a stable, secure and effective technology platform.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluation, analysis, problem definition, requirements gathering, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Performs gap analyses of as-is and to-be systems and processes including eliciting bids, analyzing solutions, documenting processes, and verifying requirements and operational needs and goals.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis, recommending changes in policies and procedures, and identifying opportunities to automate and/or improve efficiency of existing business processes.
• Partners with business leaders to understand the business strategy and converts that strategy into an ongoing technology vision/strategy/roadmap that supports the needs of the business. Aligns business initiatives with the enterprise architecture.
• Develops deep knowledge of business unit/function and builds both horizontal and vertical relationships with business and IT leaders that deliver business impact.
• Develops and maintains process models and mappings of the enterprise architectural landscape and coordinates all enterprise architecture plans and activities.
• Assists with managing projects by leading and/or assisting in the definition of project scope and objectives, ensuring resource availability and allocation, developing a detailed project plan, managing changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs, managing the relationship with the client and all stakeholders, performing risk management. performing change management, and creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation.
• Obtains and licenses software by evaluating new solutions to help in infrastructure cost containment or reduction, obtains required information from vendors, recommends purchases, tests and approves products.
• Builds and maintains relationships with vendors to ensure service levels are met and exceeded, where possible.
• Authorizes and administers security for various software systems including determining security requirements for access to critical files.
• Administers data and/or entire databases for efficiency, ease of access, etc. Identifies data integrity and database performance issues and implements appropriate fixes using best practices for the target database management system.
• Designs, prepares and modifies reports for multiple software systems using a variety of report writers.
• Prepares and maintains technical documentation in the form of procedural steps, operations manuals, functional specifications, and/or user guides for new and existing software systems.