iSeries Manager of Application Development

Responsibilities include:

• Managing the IT Development staff and contractors – currently consists of 4 resources
• Design, development and delivery of quality business applications
• Leading the approach and design of partner integrations
• Using technical and functional expertise to be a lead architect in designing solutions
• Lead design and review sessions with development team, business partners and management
• Manage multiple, parallel projects using formal project management methodologies
• Maintain controls that accurately reflect completed work against project plans, schedules and budgets, and ensure user/management involvement at appropriate milestones
• Manage application design through the various life-cycle stages from business need through design and delivery
• Manage project priorities, scope, budgets, timelines and expectations
• Review, assess, and recommend vendor solutions and proposals for software and hardware
• Develop business cases for requested investment
• Lead the development of project documentation and training materials where applicable
• Provide technical support and assistance as necessary
• Establish and enforce best practices and implement policies and procedures for compliance to ensure company wide standards are followed and to meet SOX and security compliance
• Provide management with regular communication on the progress of projects and other initiatives
• Responsible for recommending staffing plans and skill sets on a per project basis
• Responsible for the management of staffing
• Facilitate a departmental culture that encourages ownership of departmental goals and a positive service culture

Experience/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 8 years demonstrated application development management experience in an ERP environment
• Knowledge of supply chain principles and ERP systems
• Strong technical knowledge of IBM i (AS/400), RPG, RPGIV/LE, CLP, SQL and DB2/400
• Excellent knowledge of IBM i architecture including configuration and performance tuning
• Extensive integration experience using APIs / web services and ODBC / JDBC connections to an IBM i
• Results-oriented professional who is a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use MS Office tools: Excel, Word, Power Point, Vision, Project, Teams
• Demonstrated success of establishing, managing and maintaining effective working relationships at the management level, internal and external to an organization
• Strong leadership, teaching and mentoring skills
• Critical thinking, strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects, requests and support tasks effectively and efficiently
• Experience with ERP Software, Datawarehousing / ETL processing a definite plus
• Knowledge of Aldon, Robot, MuleSoft, JSON, XML, HTML, ASP.net, iCluster, Apache, Jira a plus