What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Manager position at Colony Brands, Inc.?
SC Data Center, Inc. is an affiliate company of Colony Brands, one of the world’s largest and most successful direct marketing catalog and e-Commerce companies. To support our growing business, we are seeking an experienced IT leader to lead a 5-8 member development team. The team is self-organized around the project work, supporting a complex Credit Product to deliver specified features and meet customer satisfaction.
What You’ll Do:
As an IT Manager, your responsibility includes:
• Leading transformational projects for legacy-based systems into scalable, future ready solutions
• Actively supporting agile (Scrum) development methodologies for development projects
• Providing support and assistance to team members and scrum masters
• Working closely with the product owner to establish solid relationships with business stakeholders and organize the product back log.
• Keeping feature stakeholders updated throughout the development cycle
• Coordinating work that spans multiple teams
• Identifying and addressing opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains
• Assisting direct reports with career growth and personal development
• Delivering projects on-time, on-budget and aligned with business objectives
Qualifications
This role requires a collaborative and results driven communicator with strong technical knowledge of application design, integration and programming. Ideally you will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Management Information Systems or related field and 8 years’ enterprise software experience. In addition, we are looking for:
• Ability to motivate and inspire team
• The capability to work with a cross-functional group of employees
• 1-2 years’ experience with Agile development methodologies, preferably Scrum.
• A strong aptitude for analyzing business requests and defining requirements
• A demonstrated ability to lead people and develop a strong rapport with the business community
• The ability to advise and assist teams with technical difficulties
• Skill with a wide variety of technologies including cloud services (AWS), distributed systems, and mainframe core legacy systems.
• Experience in retail, direct marketing industry a plus.
Because we value team building and collaboration, this role requires onsite work at our headquarters in Monroe, WI, Monday-Friday.