University of California , San Francisco

Instructional and Financial Systems Manager

San Francisco, California · Senior

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Cap-exempt (no lottery)100
Sponsors year-round90
Entry-level history60
PERM / green-card track50
Fits your clock70

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 7 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.

States it is exempt from the H-1B cap

In 2 Department of Labor filings, this employer states it is an institution of higher education — one of the statutory grounds for exemption from the H-1B cap. Cap-exempt employers can file year-round without entering the lottery.Employer's own attestation on a Department of Labor wage determination, not a USCIS determination — exemption is decided per petition.

Files H-1B transfers

22 transfer filings in the last year, covering 22 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

  • Receives assignments in the form of objectives and independently determines how to deploy human, financial, and operational resources to meet schedules, priorities, and organizational goals.
  • Reviews and approves recommendations for application development programs, service enhancements, and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with departmental and organizational objectives.
  • Provides leadership, coaching, and guidance to subordinate staff, supporting employee development and fostering accountability for achieving established goals in accordance with organizational policies, procedures, and controls.

Responsibilities

  • Manages applications program development, software testing, estimates of costs and resource needs, budgets, and user support systems and executing them through subordinates for a complex portfolio of systems..
  • Manages feasibility studies for new applications and / or revisions to existing systems, collaborating with the product owners, end-users, and stakeholders responsible for each application within the portfolio.
  • Develops proposals to improve or streamline processes and procedures, aligning with industry best practices and leveraging modern development and automation tools.
  • Manage and utilize ServiceNow as a ticketing system to efficiently track, prioritize, and resolve incidents, service requests, and tasks while ensuring timely communication and compliance with SLAs.
  • Creates a strong culture of teamwork to ensure the quality of daily operations, effective interdepartmental collaborations, and the timely achievement of objectives.
  • UCSF is technologically and organizationally complex, with both centralized and departmental IT units providing support for enterprise and specialized services.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
  • Deep technical experience in successfully managing the evolving technical needs, integrations, security, and architecture of multiple enterprise-level home-grown and vendor applications.
  • Experience with identifying and guiding architectural standards and frameworks across the institution, influencing adoption and ensuring cultural alignment.
  • Thorough knowledge of subject area sufficient for strategic planning, technology assessment and direction.
  • Experience in the management of ongoing technology infrastructure acquisition and expansion, to include the identification and integration of suitable emerging technologies.
  • Thorough knowledge of technical concepts and basic operating principles of data communications, computer hardware, vendor IT products, and software.
  • Ability to understand the process involved to adapt, integrate, and modify existing programs or vendor-supplied products for use within the technical environment.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively present technical topics to individuals and groups with potentially varied levels of technical sophistication.

Nice to have

  • Typically 2-5 years of experience managing an Information Technology team.

Benefits

  • Collaborates with campus and IT stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable technology solutions that support educational, academic, and administrative functions.
  • To better serve the Education Mission, UCSF IT has recently created a new IT Education unit, which is in a period of growth.
  • Prepares and presents project proposals to Education IT leadership and external partners.
  • Monitors design processes and prepare reports on systems projects, providing updates to Education IT leadership to ensure visibility and accountability.

This listing is sourced directly from University of California , San Francisco's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.