2627-208 - Academic Systems Lead (CS15) - Central Office
Nova Scotia Community College - 11 Jobs
Halifax, NS
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Benefits:
Operational Support
Academic Systems Lead (CS15)
Education
Central Office / IT Campus
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Department of Academic Equity and Quality
Continuing Full-time position: Commencing approximately November 23, 2026
Application deadline is 11:59PM, October 27, 2026
Competition No. 2627-208
Salary range: $75,884.98 to $92,501.33 annually
What you will be doing....
The Academic Systems Lead is responsible for the functional administration, optimization and integration of the systems, data and business processes that support curriculum administration and related academic operations across the College. The role provides functional leadership to curriculum administration operations, serves as the primary business systems expert for the Curriculum Management System and related interfaces, and leads cross-functional business analysis, systems integration, data stewardship and continuous improvement initiatives that connect curriculum with the Student Information System, scheduling and downstream academic processes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing functional leadership for curriculum administration systems and annual publishing processes.
- Administering and optimizing the Curriculum Management System, data warehouse and related integrations.
- Leading business analysis, process improvement and systems integration initiatives.
- Stewarding curriculum data quality, reporting requirements and business rules.
- Supporting projects, system upgrades, testing, implementation and vendor coordination.
- Collaborating with stakeholders across Academic Planning, Scheduling, Registrar Services, Schools and IT.
Qualifications and Occupational Experience:
- The minimum educational qualification for this position is a diploma in Information Technology, Information Systems, Database Administration, Business Analysis or a related field.
- You have a minimum of five years of recent, progressively responsible occupational experience in business systems administration, business analysis, database and data management, systems integration, or a related function within a complex organization.
- You have demonstrated experience supporting or administering enterprise applications and integrations. Experience with curriculum management systems, student information systems, scheduling systems, reporting solutions, or other post-secondary academic systems is strongly preferred.
- You have demonstrated experience gathering business requirements, analyzing and redesigning processes, developing functional solutions, testing system changes, supporting implementation activities and facilitating change adoption. Experience working with relational databases, data queries, reporting tools and data-quality activities is required.
- You have experience coordinating vendors and internal technology teams to resolve system issues, implement enhancements and support system upgrades. Experience leading or providing senior functional support to projects involving implementation, integration, process redesign or digital transformation is considered a strong asset.
Relevant Skills and Abilities:
- Strong functional and technical knowledge of enterprise business systems, relational databases, data interfaces and system integrations.
- Advanced business analysis skills including requirements gathering, process mapping, fit-gap analysis, options analysis, functional specification development and user acceptance testing.
- Demonstrated ability to administer and configure business applications, workflows, permissions, forms and data structures.
- Strong data literacy and experience with data validation, reporting, data-quality management practices and business-rule governance.
- Working knowledge of software development, testing, release management and change-management methodologies.
- Strong project coordination skills including planning, stakeholder engagement, risk and issue management, implementation support and post-implementation review.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical and process information clearly to varied audiences.
Candidates selected for interviews will be expected to provide at least three recent, occupational references. The successful candidate will be expected to provide official transcripts to show proof of academic achievements.
NSCC is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. As part of this commitment, NSCC will ensure that applicants are provided reasonable accommodations, as required. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process, please contact Nikki Berrigan, HR & Talent Consultant, at [email protected]. Our Employee Workplace Accommodation Policy can be found here.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept late or paper applications.
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