Position Summary:
The purpose of the Senior Manager IT, Application Development position is to lead a development team in the continued design and development of Technical Operations tools. This position will collaborate extensively with our business partners to design, develop, and integrate user interfaces and services that meets the business needs. This position will have a strong focus on Agile development, thinking out of the box, and robust technology delivery with the ability to influence innovation within the Tech Ops space.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for continuous improvement initiatives to address needs for our engineering, and technicians
- Play a key role with initiatives for modernization of the existing applications
- Accountable for administrative management of 5-10 IT professionals, either as direct reports or sourced – HR administration, Time Reporting, etc.
- Provide leadership by establishing department and individual’s goals
- Play a key role in formulating and following the procedures for test driven development
- Learn the latest tools and standards to make applications resilient and scalable while mentor junior developers
- Ensure IT application development process fields (solution delivery, project management, work requests, QA, etc.) and standards are established, effectively managed, and performed
- Responsible for assessing and recommending improvements to the organization structure, roles, and responsibilities here
- Must be adaptable to changing designs and to adding performance enhancements
- Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing project tasks on schedule and by interacting and mentoring junior and senior level developers
- Must be able to document code and implement code quality tools
- Collaborate with developers and business users to design, develop, and integrate user interfaces and services that meet business needs with focus on safety, service, and compliance
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle (SDLC), quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
- +5 years of application development experience (ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, JavaScript…etc.)
- At least 2 -4 years of leadership experience in leading multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders
- MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, or another related field
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
- 12 months experience of Agile development
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
- Airline/MRO Experience is a plus