Senior Manager IT Enterprise Applications

Senior Manager – IT Enterprise Applications

Experience: 12–15 Years

Location: Kota / Bangalore

Travel: Should be comfortable with extensive travel to Kota

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly hands-on technology leader to drive Enterprise Applications,

System Architecture & Security, Automation and Digital Transformation at ALLEN.

The person should combine strong enterprise application and business process knowledge

with an architectural mindset and hands-on technical capability. They should be comfortable

going behind applications and working with code, APIs, databases, integrations, workflows

and system architecture to solve business problems.

This is an implementation-focused role with strong emphasis on speed, ownership and

getting things done.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Applications & Digital Transformation

• Own and drive enterprise applications across Sales, Finance, HR, Academics,

Operations, IT and other business functions.

• Lead implementation, modernization and optimization of enterprise platforms.

• Understand applications beyond their front-end — including architecture, data

models, APIs, integrations and backend capabilities.

• Evaluate new technologies and convert business requirements into scalable solutions.

System Architecture & Integrations

• Think like an enterprise architect while designing every solution — considering

scalability, security, integration, maintainability and long-term impact.

• Design how applications, databases, APIs and services should connect and exchange

data across the enterprise ecosystem.

• Avoid isolated solutions and ensure new implementations fit into the broader

enterprise architecture.

• Make sound build vs. buy, integration and technology architecture decisions while

remaining hands-on during implementation.

Application Security & Secure Architecture

• Embed security by design across enterprise applications, integrations, APIs and

internally developed solutions.

• Ensure strong authentication, authorization, SSO, RBAC, data protection and secure

API/integration practices across the application landscape.

• Identify application-level security risks and vulnerabilities and drive remediation

proactively.

• Ensure security is considered during architecture and development, rather than as a

post-implementation activity.

• Work with Cybersecurity teams on security assessments, audits and compliance while

retaining ownership of application security.

Salesforce CRM & Sales Technology

• Drive Salesforce CRM end-to-end, including architecture, business processes,

automation, integrations and adoption.

• Improve sales productivity, lead management, customer engagement and operational

visibility through technology.

• Build integrations and automation around Salesforce rather than depending only on

standard application capabilities.

ERP, Finance & HR Applications

• Drive implementations across Oracle ERP, Zoho and other ERP/HRMS platforms.

• Have strong understanding of P2P, O2C, R2R, H2R and other enterprise processes.

• Drive integrations across ERP, banks, payment systems, HRMS, CRM and other

enterprise applications.

• Automate and simplify complex Finance, HR and operational processes.

Service Delivery & IT Operations

• Drive ITSM, Contact Centre, LMS, Device Management and other operational

applications.

• Automate onboarding, offboarding, access provisioning/de-provisioning, software

allocation and service workflows.

• Improve application reliability, scalability and user experience through technology and

automation.

Automation, Development & Engineering

• Continuously identify manual processes and automate them using code, APIs, scripts,

workflows or AI.

• Personally write code/scripts, build prototypes and develop integrations whenever

required.

• Build internal applications and rapid solutions instead of always depending on

vendors or off-the-shelf products.

• Be technology-agnostic — the ability to understand, architect and build matters more

than knowledge of a particular programming language.

Implementation & Ownership

• Own initiatives from problem → architecture → solution → build → integration → go-

live → stabilization.

• Drive multiple implementations simultaneously with speed and strong execution.

• Manage teams and vendors where required while remaining personally hands-on

with technology.

• Take ownership of problems and drive them to closure rather than waiting for

someone else to provide the solution.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a builder, architect, problem solver and implementer who happens to be a

Senior Manager — not someone who has moved away from technology into only managing

teams.

When given a problem, the person's natural instinct should be to understand the

architecture, explore the technology, investigate, code, automate and find a solution rather

than asking who can do it.

They should naturally look behind every application — at its architecture, APIs, database,

integrations, data flow and workflows — and understand how it fits into the larger enterprise

technology ecosystem.

They don't need to know every technology on Day 1. What matters is the mindset:

I don't know this yet, but I'll understand the architecture, figure it out, build the solution and

get it implemented.

The ideal candidate should be architectural in thinking, hands-on in execution, curious,

technically fearless, fast-moving and highly accountable.