Manager Applciation Development & Support Transformation & Modernization

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Job Description:

SUMMARY

Ryder is a leading third-party logistics (3PL) provider providing technology-driven supply chain dedicated transportation and fleet management solutions to companies of all sizes from emerging retailers to some of the worlds most known brands.

We are looking for an experienced Manager of Application Development & Support to lead and oversee the execution of strategic initiatives that impact enterprise software applications development teams internal customers and third-party providers. As a Manager of Application Development & Support you will play a critical role with initiatives targeted to enhance remediate transform modernize and support application systems and platforms across a wide variety of technologies. You will engage with solution architects technical leads security infrastructure and various other roles to drive successful delivery.

This is a fast-paced environment requiring the ability to manage and lead multiple initiatives in parallel. This role requires hands-on & close partnership with multiple technology teams and business stakeholders to communicate coordinate resolve issues and drive the delivery of project activities. This role requires the right person that will play a major role in identifying impact providing executive updates and resolving technical barriers that would hinder success. Responsible for ensuring process adherence for security audit compliance operational and technology improvements.

In addition this role is accountable for ensuring that application solutions are designed deployed and operated on secure scalable and resilient infrastructure platforms. This includes close alignment with infrastructure cloud and security teams to ensure optimal performance availability disaster recovery readiness and compliance with security & enterprise standards. Works as a liaison between the application teams infrastructure security and audit. This position will provide a level of project management for multiple projects and/or perform vendor management for third party service providers.

If you have a passion for driving organizational success and a proven track record of delivery we invite you to join our team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Partner with Infrastructure Cloud and Security teams to design and implement scalable highly available and resilient platforms

Ensure applications are designed with infrastructure considerations including capacity planning performance tuning failover and recovery

Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures containerization and platform engineering practices where applicable

Oversee environment strategy (DEV QA UAT PROD) ensuring consistency automation and governance across environments

Ensure observability (monitoring logging alerting) is in place to support proactive issue detection and performance management

Collaborate on disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies including testing and validation of recovery objectives (RTO/RPO)

Ensure infrastructure security standards patching and vulnerability remediation are incorporated into application lifecycle

Support infrastructure cost optimization initiatives through efficient resource utilization and architectural decisions

Partners with leadership to drive innovation of capabilities by understanding business needs and evolving technologies and participate as integral member of Technology Delivery Management Team responsible for defining and implementing technology strategies capital plans and roadmaps.

Provide technical leadership to team of developers to make appropriate technical decisions that will meet business needs and set team priorities based on tactical and strategic objectives creating focus on main goals while eliminating roadblocks.

Define implement and promote processes best practices and standards for application development and deployment including service oriented architecture reusable code web usability look & feel branding and security controls following Agile Methodologies.

Work closely with other departments within the technology organization to understand business demands and identify appropriate opportunities for solutions and continued innovation of technical capabilities aligning with business needs

Manage budget according to plan by preparing yearly forecast facilitating capitol request preparation and assessing future resource needs

Manage all aspects of management tasks for team from prioritization of work career development and training needs

Manage all aspects of application development and support. Accountable for application performance/stability end-to-end transactional flows root cause analysis and corrective actions for any outages

Coaches and counsel employees on performance sets performance standards recommends pay actions and responsible for other HR actions

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Performs other duties as assigned.


EDUCATION
Bachelors degree Computer Science Business Management Engineering or related field.
Masters degree MBA a plus preferred.


EXPERIENCE
Seven (7) years or more experience Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible comprehensive experience in Application Development and IT Project Management.

SKILLS

Possess strong leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to lead train and develop a self-directed workforce including effective delegation skills and ability to manage assigned responsibilities

Superior interpersonal skills including excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel. Ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport persuades others and gains understanding

Effectively and clearly communicate to the end-user community tailoring the communication style/method to the specific need and be able to discuss technical solutions in a non-technical manner

Strong analytical/technical and problem solving/troubleshooting skills. Demonstrated successfully implementing change/improvements Strong sense of personal accountability and a proven track record of achieving desired results

Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers work groups customers supervisors)

Ability to work independently and as member of a team

Flexibility to operate and self-driven to excel in a fast-paced environment. Works well under pressure successfully meets schedules works independently while interacting with personnel from differing groups and management levels to produce high-quality work

Capable of multi-tasking highly organized with strong time management skills Demonstrated commitment to quality execution and customer service as evidenced by previous experience and performance track record

Build consensus identify group conflict facilitate resolution and successfully perform in a collaborative environment

Define new operational models and procedures and work with metrics

Work with reporting systems to pull data for analysis and decision making Detail oriented with excellent follow-up practices KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge of full software development life cycle.; intermediate level.

Extensive technical and professional knowledge; expert level.

Awareness of programming standards and protocols; intermediate level.

Excellent knowledge of program coding techniques file access methods testing techniques and documentation methods; advanced level.

Knowledge of architecture and infrastructure required to support various applications and technologies; intermediate level.

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For all Full-time positions only: Ryder offers comprehensive health and welfare benefits to include medical prescription dental vision life insurance and disability insurance options as well as paid time off for vacation illness bereavement family and parental leave and a tax-advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan.

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