Application Development Manager

Application Development Manager Career Opportunity

We are looking for a knowledgeable, hands-on leader to manage the ongoing application development activities for our Information Technology organization. In this role, your duties will include delivering technical solutions based on business strategy, collaborating with colleagues, performing successful troubleshooting of technical issues, and mentoring a team of direct reports. The manager role will require astute customer service skills to manage internal and external end users of the application suites. The manager will assist their team in prioritizing work and provide guidance to team members as needed to successfully complete projects. To ensure success as an application development leader, you should possess prior experience in technical application development and team leadership in a fast-paced environment, hands-on experience with a variety of business applications, and the ability to learn quickly while adapting to changes within the organization.

Application Development Manager Role and Responsibilities

Team Leadership:

• Provide people leadership/management to a team of three to six application developers under the supervision of the Director, Enterprise Systems & Development.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to ensure that the development team has all the resources needed to complete project assignments, quickly address any challenges and issues, and prevent or resolve conflicts as needed.
• Perform performance reviews and hold regular feedback conversations with direct reports.
• Ensure team members understand development best practices and facilitate work in a timely, efficient manner to meet the needs of our stakeholders.
• Hold team members accountable to follow all defined processes and procedures; collaborating with them to develop new procedures where needed.
• Prioritize the creation, storage, and organization of team documentation knowledge base to ensure all solutions delivered are thoroughly understood, documented, and transitioned well to support teams.
• Drive the strategy, roadmap, execution and optimization of our application development landscape with a cloud smart, vendor supported philosophy.
• Ensure the team appropriately executes project deliverables according to committed timelines.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure all deliverables are designed, developed, and supported appropriately.

Project Management:

• Work with project managers/business analysts in development of project plans, functional specifications, resource plans, and project schedule estimates.
• Work with project managers to set achievable timelines for team deliverables in conjunction with overall projects or programs.
• Manage team members accordingly to meet or exceed expectations for project timelines.
• Ensure risks, actions, issues, and decisions are understood and communicated appropriately.
• Provide or contribute to project artifacts such as requirements documents, designs, test cases, and deployment run books.

Technical Leadership:

• Engage with business and IT stakeholders to ensure solution development is aligned with business goals and technical architectural principles.
• Propose informed ideas on technology strategy and direction.
• Provide technical oversight, leadership, and support of existing systems, including current custom applications, as well as the development of new applications/functionality.
• Collaborate with team members on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); including requirements analysis, design, configuration, change and risk management, documentation, planning, accessibility.
• Develop and review software requirements, create design documents, write programs, and package, test, configure, and deploy software.
• Develop and enhance software programs and data structures that meet business objectives.
• Design, develop, test, and refine software deliverables.
• Review and create system, software, and functional design specifications.
• Perform code reviews and ensure change control is being followed.
• Oversee the execution and tracking of project efforts with regular updates to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Prepare documentation and provide end-user training and support as necessary.
• Establish productive working relationships and maintain effective communications with teammates and end-users.
• Ensure compliance for all supported software/applications with security controls. This includes capturing security controls during requirements gathering, developing secure code, error handling, conducting vulnerability scans, managing and mitigating potential risks/vulnerabilities, and supporting SOX efforts and documentation.

Application Development Manager Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience including at least 2 years leading development teams.
• Experience with software architecture, business analysis, technical solutions, and deploying software and custom modules in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience applying quality engineering principles throughout the software development product lifecycle.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, organizational skills, and being able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong analytical skills, be proactive and acquire new technical skills as needed to perform job duties.
• Experience must include SAP ABAP/BTP, .NET Framework; C#; VB; SQL Server; API development; Web Services; Unit Testing; .NET Core; IIS; Azure DevOps.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) or Agile/Scrum certification desired.
• Cloud-based application development experience, preferably within AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience performing application development activities within a DevOps/DevSecOps framework, preferably with some degree of continuous integration/delivery exposure.
• Experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment preferred.

Application Development Manager Leadership and Soft Skills

• Exceptional ability to provide support to internal and external end users.
• Advanced proficiency in determining the causes of application errors.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Ability to lead and mentor team members.
• Collaborate well with other teams and colleagues toward efficient and effective solutions.