Application Development Manager at Associated Grocers of New England, Inc. in Pembroke, NH: Plan, coordinate, and supervise the activities related to the design, development, and implementation of organizational information systems and software applications as assigned by the IT Director. Responsible for maintaining, supporting, and upgrading existing systems and applications. Responsibilities:

• Oversee projects assigned to web and software developers and the application development team.
• Manage the complete development lifecycle of the agency software systems; including gathering requirements, database management, software development, testing, implementation, user follow up, support, and projects.
• Manage the integrity and changes to the application development servers and databases.
• Oversee the development and implementation of change control processes for the development team to follow.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and decision support required for management decision processes, strong resources, and capacity planning experiences.
• Provide technology decisions that impact software development.
• Oversee special IT projects as assigned.
• Manage the development and deployment of new applications, systems software, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout the enterprise.
• Oversee that development projects meet business requirements and goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Manage the pre-testing phase of development by evaluating proposals in order to identify potential problem areas and make the appropriate recommendations.
• Oversee the collaboration of analysts, designers, and system owners in testing new software programs and applications.
• Manage and provide direction for the application development team to support business operations.
• Oversee the identification and resolution of programming errors.
• Provide technical leadership to BSA, QA Analyst, and programmers working on development project teams.
• Oversee the review and analyses of existing applications’ effectiveness and efficiency and develop strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Lead the design, development, and installation of enhancements and upgrades to systems and application software.
• Provide research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Manage and enforce functional policies, procedures, and quality assurance best practices.
• Manage the preparation and monitoring of budgets when necessary.
• Supervise 5 employees - (1) Quality Assurance Tester and (4) Application Developers III.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field and three (3) years of relevant experience. Total experience must include 3 years of progressively responsible management/ leadership experience in a software development field and experience working through the requirement, design, development, QA & UAT testing, implementing and delivering in release cycles, and to customers.

Hybrid home/office work schedule.

To apply for the position, please email resume to jobs@agne.com. Refer to job code RS24.