Director Application Development
Director Application Development
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The Director of Application Development will be an integral member of the IT Leadership Team and Arbellas corporate senior leadership team. They will serve as a strategic leader and trusted advisor across the company overseeing the management of all business facing portfolios and driving the success of the entire application development process. The Director of Application Development plans coordinates supervises all activities related to the design development implementation of the organizations applications development and analysis function.
They must exhibit strong leadership skills be highly collaborative and work crossfunctionally to ensure that IT meets the needs of individual business units across the organization while ensuring quality standards adherence to Arbellas secure SDLC and aligning application projects with business objectives; essentially leading the strategic direction of the companys software development initiatives.
The Director of Application Development should have a proven track record of delivering on commitments building strong business relationships and developing and retaining top talent.
This position reports to the AVP of Application Development .
Key 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 Arbellas 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 3year 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 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 bestinclass solutions.
A strong focus on Diversity & Inclusion is necessary.
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 multimilliondollar 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 problemsolving and decisionmaking skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Handson strategic thinker and proven leader with the ability to drive organizational change.
Bachelors degree in information systems computer science or a related field. Masters degree in one of these fields or Business Management preferred.
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They must exhibit strong leadership skills be highly collaborative and work crossfunctionally to ensure that IT meets the needs of individual business units across the organization while ensuring quality standards adherence to Arbellas secure SDLC and aligning application projects with business objectives; essentially leading the strategic direction of the companys software development initiatives.
The Director of Application Development should have a proven track record of delivering on commitments building strong business relationships and developing and retaining top talent.
This position reports to the AVP of Application Development .
Key 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 Arbellas 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 3year 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 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 bestinclass solutions.
A strong focus on Diversity & Inclusion is necessary.
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 multimilliondollar 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 problemsolving and decisionmaking skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Handson strategic thinker and proven leader with the ability to drive organizational change.
Bachelors degree in information systems computer science or a related field. Masters degree in one of these fields or Business Management preferred.
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