Application Development Manager

Valencia, CA

Direct Hire

$155k - $165K year

Immediate hire at growing company. Will be influential member of the IT management team in designing, developing, and implementing effective technical solutions across the organization. Organize and administer staff assignments while nurturing a departmental environment where partnership and helpfulness are second nature. Ensure applied staffing levels are commensurate with current waterfall workstream needs, including annual projects, project requests, minor enhancement requests, incident tickets, and service requests. Know your customers and think outside the box: Understand the operational aspects of current systems functionality to best manage requested modifications while striving to deliver solutions that exceed expectations for business efficiency and effectiveness. Ensure timely, efficient, effective delivery of high-quality solutions. Provide strong technical and design leadership across multiple concurrent projects and technologies. Develop, monitor, and enforce departmental policies, controls, and metrics to ensure productivity, data accuracy, code quality and security, software security, and legal and regulatory compliance. Be a persistent advocate for Agile methodology and metrics; work with IT management to ensure staff are trained and opportunities provided for growth of Agile development. Ensure training and development of departmental staff to meet future business needs. Partner with the IT management team to create and deliver upon the Strategic and Annual project plans. Manage the departmental budget to within 2%. Manage vendors, consultants, and hosting partners to address company business challenges.

Requirements:

• 6 years IT design / development experience, including 4 years managerial experience.
• Strong familiarity with an array of programming languages and methodologies, including C#, .NET, ERP development and customization, and other technologies.
• Experience leading complex development projects and managing technical staff.
• Superb organization, communication, written, and verbal skills.
• Proven ability to manage and help develop technical teams.
• Experience estimating technical development.
• BS/BA college degree