IT Applications Manager

Job Description

Position Summary:

As an integral leader of the Development Team, the IT Applications Manager will be responsible for managing a team of Programmers and Systems SMEs to modernize and maintain business critical applications and manage related vendors. The position will work on-site in our Support Office, collaborating with different business functions to assist in prioritizing application development, integrations, and architecture design in support of unique customized solutions for our customers.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of programmers in development and maintenance of application programming, including MS.NET, C#, VB.Net and other languages as needed.

• Lead and mentor system SMEs, managing coordination of resources for projects and maintenance of systems.

• Assign and oversee the daily tasks, while ensuring the team is actively working towards established milestones.

• Conduct regular, clear communications with team to ensure alignment and priorities. Communicate to determine progress and address any questions or challenges as well as define clear deliverable, roles and responsibilities required for specific projects or initiatives.

• Collaborate with all functions of IT and business units, to support internal and external customers and company objectives.

• Creates solutions and timelines for the systems to support the processes and client requirements.

• Oversee documentation of resources, such as user guides for systems and application development for developers and users, also to be used for training purposes.

• Act as Project Stakeholder or key member of various development projects with PMO.

• Oversee data migration and testing of transaction data from one core system to another.

• Manage a best practices approach to EDI and integration with clients.

• Support Vendor Management of additional 3rd party IT Consultants and Vendors for legacy systems as well as off the shelf systems such as EDI, Warehouse Management Systems, ERP and HRIS.

Skills and Specifications Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computing Science (or similar subject matter)

• 5+ years Leading a team of developers

• 5+ years hands on Software Development and Coding

• Proven leadership ability to engage, motivate and promote agile collaborative teams

• Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Strong knowledge of MS.NET, C#, VB.Net, MySQL, MS SQL Server

• Knowledge of API Mapping and EDI applications such as Snaplogic, Dell Boomi, etc.

• Proven experience playing a lead role in Development Projects, partnering with PMO, PM experience a plus

• Awareness of governance and cyber security needs for application development.

• US Citizenship will be required to access server designated for DOD / DFARS compliance

• A strong understanding of Client/Server Architecture, Distributed Applications, and Cloud Computing

• Able to forecast, plan and meet realistic deadlines

• The ability to work well under pressure

• Ability to communicate about technical issues in non-technical terms.

• Applications and coding troubleshooting ability

• Able to logically think through issues in a rapidly changing environment