Manager - Application Development And Support

Role: Manager - Application Development and Support

Location: Okemos, MI (Need someone in the office 4 days a week as this is a leadership role, after time maybe go to two days working in the office)

Salary: Market

Duration: Permanent role/ Full time

Minimum Qualifications

• Min of 7 years of experience, plus Bachelor's Degree, Technical Leadership, be hands on, be a doer, must have experience in managing people, know how to talk with people, lead people, Agile shop
• Experience in deploying and maintaining high performance enterprise applications on public and private cloud, utilizing continuous integration and deployment practices.
• Experience managing application development teams of five or more staff; ability to lead and mentor staff; ability to analyze and resolve complex problems; ability to plan work and required staffing levels; ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences; and excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills preferred.
• Position requires working knowledge with multiple technology disciplines including, but not limited to, the following: In depth knowledge with hands on experience building enterprise grade business application (user interfaces, backend services and batch processes) using technologies like Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML/JSON, REST/SOAP, JDBC/JPA/ORM, Oracle/Postgres and Messaging (Kafka, ActiveMQ). Recent experience with application and web servers like WebLogic, WildFly, Tomcat, Apache and NGNX. Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic, Kibana, and Logstash (ELK stack).

Job Summary

Accountable for the delivery of application development and/or support initiatives through managing the activities of a team in support of various business requirements. Coordinates with other managers to leverage resources across functional domains to optimize the delivery of business solutions. Estimates, plans, designs, develops and delivers application solutions within a specific timeline and budget. Develops staff skill levels and provides opportunities for growth.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Seeks input from others, listens effectively, and uses diplomacy, tact, and consensus when applicable to build relationships and gain trust, respect, and support.
• Ensures that corporate, departmental and team standards and processes are utilized, and improvements are implemented to enhance performance of the team.
• Establishes goals and provides clear direction while distributing workloads appropriately and in a well-planned out and organized manner.
• Leads and mentors team members to support application maintenance and production activities as required by the business unit.
• Works with feature teams to ensure implementation is following architectural standards and design patterns set by the enterprise architecture team.
• Manages, schedules, plans and coordinates team and staff assignments, budgets, projects and services.
• Provides leadership throughout the lifecycles of a project, working with PMO, Enterprise Architecture and Product Management, guiding feature teams through detail project estimations, design and development to ensure project requirements are met.
• Identifies key stakeholders and communicates decisions.
• Concentrates on desired outcomes and initiates action while holding self and others accountable for performance and results.
• Manages change, challenges, and adversity.
• Drives responsible engineering practices with quality and security in mind, engineering for data security, resiliency, scalability, and test automation.
• Gathers information to initiate and make informed decisions.
• Assists with the maintenance of relationships with customers, vendors, and other external contacts related to the functional area of support.
• Develops talent, applies clear and consistent performance standards, and handles performance problems decisively and objectively.
• Identifies and plans training and growth opportunities for staff.
• Recognizes problems, identifies root causes of issues, and responds timely and appropriately.