GT Manager, Integration Services at Archer Daniels Midland Company in Erlanger, KY

Position Summary:

The GT Manager of integration Services is accountable for the overall strategy and delivery of our global, multi-technology, integration delivery development team. A successful candidate will own integrations development. Driving a progressive strategy, the leader will leverage deep knowledge and experience to transform the organization to leverage various development methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile methods and DevOps principles.

Job Responsibilities:

• Development Methodologies
• Define and enhance the integration strategy to leverage catalogs and reusability
• Lead the integration team in the development and standardization of agile best practices across cross-functional teams
• Design systems to ensure adherence to software development lifecycle standards & practices
• Contribute to and ensure proper utilization of defined ADM Enterprise Architecture standards and principles
• Ensure quality solutions are delivered and standards are maintained thru the life cycle
• Design development strategies to adherence to IT General Controls and SOX Controls
• Workforce Planning
• Manage and allocate resources, ensuring quality, achievement of development goals, cost-efficiency, and timely delivery across regional, global and off-shore teams
• Effectively staff teams based on business priorities
• Measurement and Reporting
• Development of metrics such as team burndown, development velocity, team utilization, reusability scorecards, and testing metrics to ensure quality delivery of applications development
• Analyze performance regularly, identify development improvements and implement strategies to achieve
• Create team standards for reporting work and achievement of project objectives
• Partnering
• Collaborate with Architects, Solution Teams, IT Security, and IT leadership to assure the delivery standards are being met
• Maintain partnership with 3rd party providers to drive efficiencies
• Provide feedback for development process improvement
• Talent Development
• Attract, retain, and develop global talent
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, mentor, and lead team to advance performance and career development
• Ensure teams are properly trained in required methodologies and processes

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree is required related to Information Systems, Business or other relevant academic discipline
• Minimum 7 years of experience in a large-scale, enterprise environment leading both Agile Scrum and Waterfall integration teams
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies like Scrum, XP, Kanban and enterprise scaling methodologies like SAFe
• Practical experience working in an agile environment
• Understanding of development processes for ERPs (SAP)
• A solid understanding of Application development, testing, integration, and DevOps principles and practices
• A solid understanding of integrations patterns and integrations tools such as SAP PI/PO, SAP Cloud Analytics, Azure Integration tools among others
• A solid understanding of Infrastructure concepts like Compute, Storage, Networking, Disaster Recovery, Scalability, and High Availability
• A solid understanding of Application architecture patterns like n-tier, broker, event-bus, model-view-controller, and client-server
• A strong knowledge of information risk, fraud, security, PCI, PII, SOX & GDPR
• Experience dealing with multiple technology and system integration platforms including .NET Technologies, Relational database (Oracle and/or SQL Server), SOA, and Cloud Native Development
• Demonstrated success with cloud application architecture preferably Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge and understanding of software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to manage and shift priorities to meet project schedules
• Ability to effectively communicate and influence both executive business and IT leaders
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment, and with all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, complex projects
• Exhibits ability to work both in a team environment and independently
• Strong analytical, organization, time management and process management skills
• Demonstrated high level of written, verbal and interpersonal skills to communicate information, ideas, procedures and processes in a logical sequence; at a level appropriate to the audience and resulting in effective working relationships
• Exhibits high personal performance standards, the desire and ability to continuously learn and must be results oriented
• Proven ability to build long-term relationships with customers and business partners
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Ability and willingness to travel as needed to achieve business objectives – 15-30%