Director of Business Applications

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

This role is needed to lead a broad scope of enterprise applications (engineering tools, automation, enterprise knowledge mgmt. and AI/ML based enterprise search application, Cloud, Collaboration. Infrastructure, Service Management), ensuring alignment with strategic objectives of consolidation following M&A activities, integration, cloud-first approach, and improving engineering and employee productivity and experience.

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive Enterprise Applications strategy, ensuring alignment with Viasat's broader goals while balancing the needs of stakeholders and internal customers.
• Drive the transformation of technology architecture to support company goals, building scalable platform solutions and customizing best-in-class software products, keeping abreast of industry trends
• Partner with executive stakeholders to secure buy-in and support for the overall enterprise applications strategy.

Operational Excellence

• Cultivate a data-driven culture within the Enterprise Applications team by monitoring and demonstrating effectiveness of initiatives, delivered value, and ensuring on track to deliver ROI
• Oversee the development and maintenance of current-state and future-state technology roadmaps aligned with approved infrastructure/cloud technologies and strategic priorities.
• Ensure services meet the SLA, uptime, scalability, self-service, integration needs of the enterprise

Technical Solutions & Partnerships

• Responsible for the high-level design and implementation of integrations across the application ecosystem, partnering effectively with business users, engineers, application developers, and vendors.
• Partner with key business sponsors and executive stakeholders, product owners to deliver monthly and quarterly business reviews that clarify roadmaps, highlight successes, or address areas for improvement
• Provide thought leadership and clear technical direction to the team to deliver results and business value.

• Meeting with team members to review ongoing projects and provide guidance
• Collaborating with business unit leaders to understand their needs and requirements
• Presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership
• Evaluating new technologies and architectures and methodologies to enhance capabilities
• Addressing service impacting issues, risks, implementing improvements
• Mentoring and developing team members' skills

• Experienced Leader: With 10 years of Enterprise Applications experience, including 7+ years leading and managing orgs of at least 30 people at a fast-growing tech company. Experience with Product ownership and experience leading DevOps teams highly preferred.
• Change Agent: Possessing excellent change management skills and thriving in a fast-paced environment.
• Technology Expert: Experienced with hosted and SaaS solutions, cloud architecture, and Enterprise collaborating platforms, engineering tools, automations
• Integration Specialist: With hands-on experience with and a track record of building a scalable and cost-effective integrations and automation strategy.
• Strategic & Operational: Demonstrating the ability to lead global applications organizations, manage vendor relationships, build and maintain budgets, and ensure compliance across various audit surfaces.
• US Citizenship required
• Travel 25% if not local to Carlsbad, CA.

• Problem-Solver: Process-oriented with strong project/program management skills, comfortable with ambiguity and fast change.
• Team Builder: With excellent team management, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Strong knowledge of application support & development methodologies, tools, and frameworks, such as ITIL, DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, Scrum, code repositories, etc.
• Ensure "security by design" principles are integrated into all aspects

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.