Job Description
Are you an IT leader with experience managing the development of technology solutions to implementation? Our public sector client is looking for you to manage an application development team in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership, management and direction for the applications team, and ensure technology solutions align with architecture and infrastructure standards and guidelines.
- Assigning and monitoring progress of work performed by solutions team across various development platforms, including but not limited to in-house systems, integration with third party technology systems, and web applications.
- Leading applications team through hands-on approach on development in different platforms, and deploy cost-effective complex technology solutions to meet business needs.
- Pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions that scale both technologically and operationally, managing the organization through change, evolution, and sustained growth guiding the convergence of existing systems with emergence of new modernized technology.
- Establishing partnerships with varying levels of resources is key such as executives, management, projects, various internal business & IT stakeholders, and external vendors.
- Ensuring development environments are managed to meet needs of various streams and multiple projects and developers; comply with security and privacy policies.
- Building, managing and working with agile delivery teams to optimize our investment in quality and deliver value to the business partners.
- Supporting program and portfolio planning.
Qualifications
- Experience working on large projects with knowledge and understanding of enterprise technologies such as Enterprise Service Business (ESB),Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Enterprise Identity and Access Management (EIAM), and Enterprise Portal Solutions.
- Experience working with application development and security frameworks for software and databases, and with familiarity of Application Servers (i.e. WebSphere, Weblogic, etc.) and Directory Services (Active Directory, SUN/UNIX LDAP, SAP, etc.).
- Experience managing the day to day operations of a team on production outage, incidents management, and release change management.
- Leading technical teams, communicating objectives to the Claims Applications team, providing creative solutions, effectively managing geographically dispersed teams, and ensuring progress tracks development objectives.
- Experience working within a complex environment and understanding the implications of regulatory requirements for security and audit as it pertains to Claims technology solutions will be an asset.
- Experience and knowledge of technology-based tools or methodologies including ITIL and SDLC implementation methodologies, to review, design, and/or implement products and services.
- Able to build strong working relationship and influence decisions with product vendors, consulting partners, clients and stakeholders.
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Job Number: 10556