Application Development Director (Symitar/Power On/Core Banking)

Exciting Opportunity at Orange County's Credit Union

Application Development Director (Symitar / PowerOn / Core Banking)

CREDIT UNION’S PURPOSE:  Simple Banking.  For People, Not Profit.

CREDIT UNION’S CORE VALUES:  Integrity, Service Excellence, Growth & Development, High Performance, Mutual Respect, Community, and Fun

Workplace Excellence.  Through our associates' opinions and voices, Orange County's Credit Union is a proud recipient of the Peter Barron Stark Best of the Best Award for highest associate satisfaction in the workplace! As a leading financial service provider with over 80 years of experience serving 123,000 members, Orange County's Credit Union is currently $2 billion in assets & growing.

Generous benefits including:

• Anthem Vivity HMO & Delta Care USA Dental - Orange County's Credit Union (OCCU) covers 100% of the associates' monthly premium
• Life insurance at no cost to employee.
• 401(k) – OCCU automatically contributes 3% of the employee’s earnings PLUS matches up to 5% of the employee’s contribution (dollar for dollar)
• Vacation hours – 18 days per year and rolls over year to year, and increases with tenure 
• Sick hours – 7 days per year and rolls over year to year
• Paid Holidays – 11 days per year plus 3 partial days
• Annual performance merit increases 
• Professional and personal development programs, including educational grants up to $2k per year, and step progression opportunities    
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Professional, friendly work environment focused on achieving goals, recognizing successes, and excelling at member service.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

The Director of IT Solution Delivery is responsible for defining technical strategy / roadmap, guiding system architecture, ensuring technical product ownership and leading a team of highly effective technical professionals to further advance the organization’s core banking capabilities. S/he provides oversight for application architecture, design, development, and delivery of core banking platform and related enterprise applications to better support Members and Associates.

In collaboration with Business and IT partners, the Director of IT Solution Delivery will lead the delivery efforts for enterprise-scale business solutions that optimize operational efficiency through technology and automation while leveraging product-focused agile solution delivery processes, CI/CD automation and DevSecOps practices.  Additionally, s/he will be driving innovation efforts that deliver meaningful growth and operational efficiencies for the Credit Union.

In addition to having excellent problem solving skills, solid software engineering discipline, and expertise in Symitar PowerOn, the Director of IT Solution Delivery must be an initiator, self-motivated, creative, agile, accountable, and must be able to balance efficiency with effectiveness.  Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are a necessity. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Work closely with Business and IT executives to ensure the team’s delivery and focus are in alignment with enterprise strategic goals and objectives.
• Maintain oversight of all strategic and tactical initiatives; ensure that commitments are properly planned, staffed, monitored, and reported; coordinate activities and deliverables across multiple teams while resolving issues, removing roadblocks and ensuring priorities are aligned.
• Lead solution delivery efforts on enterprise initiatives that require new / enhanced capabilities on core banking platform and related enterprise applications, and manage day-to-day baseline operations for accountable area / systems.
• Act as a player-coach by guiding / mentoring technical professionals and providing hands-on leadership for the architecture, design and development of new core banking solutions as well as day-to-day baseline operations while leading / motivating the team towards common goals and maintaining a high level of performance. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from an accredited college / university in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience in architecting, designing and delivering enterprise-scale business solutions.
• 7 years of leadership and people management experience with an emphasis on coaching, mentoring, guiding and motivating team members on project / product delivery and career / professional development.
• 5 years of experience in project leadership, resource planning, financial management, budgeting, RFP / vendor selection, and vendor / contract management.
• Must have 5 years of hands-on experience developing, integrating and supporting core banking application (Symitar / RepGen / PowerOn).

The targeted annual salary range is $180,000.00 to $190,000.00. Final offer will be determined based on experience, education, training/certifications and specialized skills.

We perform thorough background and credit check. EOE