Director Application Development

Director Application Development

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in an IT leadership role, including project management, QA, and application development.
• Demonstrated success as a senior IT and business leader.
• Proven ability to recruit, retain and develop high performing teams with high employee engagement and job satisfaction.
• Experience in application development tools, life cycle and QA best practices, as well as project delivery methodologies including agile, PMF, as well as test automation and QA best practices.
• Strong technical acumen and an understanding of developer languages, application technologies and systems architecture concepts.
• Strong relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple vendor relationships, to ensure the best financial return and value on initial investment and continued maintenance.
• Proven thought leadership and ability to leverage deep knowledge of relevant technologies, trends, architectures, and vendors and service providers.
• Experience in developing multi-million-dollar departmental and organizational budgets and effectively planning and managing activities within the established constraints of such approved budgets.
• Ability to facilitate and lead change at all organizational levels and drive continuous improvement.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands-on, strategic thinker and proven leader with the ability to drive organizational change.
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with IT Management, the Director of Strategic Programs, and IT Sr. Staff, is responsible for the development and delivery of software solutions to support Arbella’s Business Objectives.
• Manages a team of Application Portfolio Managers containing Managers, Developers and Business Analysts responsible for building, maintaining, and upgrading Arbella software applications.
• Direct the development and implementation of software solutions across all business portfolios.
• Establish standards for requirements, design, construction, testing and implementation of software applications.
• Practice regular reviews of application lifecycle currency and building plans to address risk.
• Partners with IT Sr. Staff to build 3-year plans and budgets that align with Arbella Business Plans.
• Aids IT Sr. Staff in the review of executive level presentations and reporting.
• Partners with IT and Legal in execution, negotiation, and renewal of complex vendor contracts for software subscriptions, support, and staff augmentation.
• Work across IT teams to ensure alignment of application portfolio priorities and resources with project/program timelines.
• Establish strong relationships with executive and senior leadership partners across Arbella business groups to understand their businesses and advise them on technological solutions and options for delivery.
• Partner closely with all members of the IT Leadership Team on portfolio, strategic and operational initiatives, driving results and proactively communicating on progress and direction of key IT projects.
• Develop and manage talent that is supportive of a culture that is energized, engaged, future focused and highly motivated to deliver best-in-class solutions.
• A strong focus on Diversity & Inclusion is necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in one of these fields or Business Management preferred.