Job Description
Job Description
Seeking an experienced Director of Application Engineering. Excellent career opportunity.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for all aspects of project development and product maintenance over the entire product life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, support) – includes product launch activities.
Product Release Management for all departmental products and projects
Responsible for departmental financial management and resource management, including staffing profile currency and interdepartmental reviews
Provide mentoring and coaching to employees
Ensure software development best practices are followed consistently across the teams, including estimation, design reviews, security considerations, code inspections, quality assurance, planning activities and set software engineering standards where gaps exist.
Must be able to develop and understand the system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, to effectively coordinate the activities of the team.
Responsible for assembling project teams, facilitating assignment of individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed and developing schedule to ensure timely completion of releases that include enhancements, maintenance and support.
Schedule and facilitate project
Manage relationships within project teams; between project teams and functional groups; between project team and senior management; and between project and the customer, whether internal or external.
Create project plans; issues list, action items, status reports as well as adhere to internal project methodologies
Identify and resolve project issues and risks, including tracking, escalation and mitigation
Manage, integrate and balance resource requirements across multiple projects without adversely impacting deliverables, timelines or quality
Report project progress to senior management and stakeholders, identifying issues and resolutions
Supervise performance and professional development for technical members of team
Build good team atmosphere by developing positive working relationships with team members and other departments
Coordinate recruiting, hiring and performance evaluation requirements
Implement and support company objectives and decisions
Oversee and perform Project Development Manager duties as needed
Estimate tasks
Work closely with Application Architects to ensure development teams follow architecture guidelines and best practices.
Work with Application Architects in identifying services with a holistic view of projects
Assist in creating pre-coding review
Review use of technology by project teams
Attend key design reviews
Analyze requirements
Lead effort with technical resources within Product Development to develop implementable designs. Ensure those designs are reviewed with Application Architects.
Measure and report project performance and status and identify and control changes.
Monitor and control risk.
Perform lessons learned.
Interfaces across all of business. Able to understand impact to business from any IT change
Interfaces across all of IT understanding and communicating impact from requests and changes.
Lead solution/ proposal development activities for new business opportunities
Interface with Category Directors to ensure software solutions meet objectives in priority order
Foster a cultural environment of teamwork and innovation within and between teams
Provide technical leadership across projects
Present projects and at the enterprise level to business, executive and technical personnel
Manage training opportunities for technical staff
Requirements
1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related.
2. 5 or more years of Application Development experience.
3. 3 or more years of Agile Methodologies experience.
4. 3 or more years Managing Java Development Teams experience.
5. PMP Certification preferred.
William H Hunter Recruiting
www.williamhhunterrecruiting.com
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