We are currently seeking a
Sr. Application Development Managerto join our team. This role is open to being a hybrid working model to one of our multiple offices or as a full time remote worker. Candidates must be capable of practically applying and executing on existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving organizational models. Collaborating with the product group and development managers, should be able to drive design, engineering, reuse, application of patterns for the architectures that comprise the solutions in a portfolio for the Digital Marketplace.
Responsible for developing, inspiring architecture, technology roadmap to power business critical initiatives as well as maintenance and streamlining key ongoing business functions. These projects may include:
- Data migrations with both SQL and NoSQL backends
- Cloud migrations and multi-cloud / multi-region strategies
- Evolution of the build pipeline in a continuous integration / continuous delivery (DevOps in CI/CD) pattern
- Work on microservice and serverless architectures and design patterns.
Responsibilities
- Lead, prioritize, and develop the overall architecture approach for the Digital Marketplace and communicate architectural direction
- Provide leadership for cloud engineering team, including planning, coaching, recruitment, selection, performance development, and mentoring
- Monitor staff performance by working with employees to establish and implement goals, create and encourage professional development plans and track/monitor performance
- Manage day-to-day activities such as resource scheduling conflicts, expense review and approval, utilization reporting, et cetera
- Build a high performing team of mixed technical subject matter experts while mentoring them on soft skills and career planning
- Facilitates the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns
- Build, develop, and grow our Digital Marketplace technical team
- Mentor developers in the growth of critical thinking and adoption of target technologies.
- Designing and implementing cloud best practices (e.g. architecting, provisioning, deployment, monitoring, incident management, etc)
- Help determine ongoing non-functional requirements (NFR) targets. Aligns technology architecture with business strategy and goals.
- Researching, recommending, and introducing new technologies consistent with objectives of the company
- Achieve yearly goals for NFR and engineering targets.
- Advise on and, when appropriate, develop architectures, practices and technology choices that assist in achievement of Digital Marketplace strategic goals as well as revenue and adoption goals.
- Translate organizational level business requirements and use cases into infrastructure capabilities, including cost management and security/audit requirements.
- Designs and enables IT capabilities with a focus on technology disruption, speed, agility, and flexibility, while meeting today's needs
- Provides a high-level vision of product solutions and development initiatives applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance
- Provides Application Architecture designs and implementations that are following current leading edge practices for refactored and new technical applications.
- Collaborate with segment architects to develop, maintain and govern enterprise architecture across the organization
Qualifications
- Hands on experience with software development lifecycles, system architectures and the exploration of technology trends
- Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent experience in a related field(s)
- 3+ years of demonstrated significant leadership experience and knowledge in IT
- 1-3 years of leadership experience
- Experience developing and deploying AWS IaaS architectures using Lamba, Appsync, SNS, SQS, Dynamo, RDS, and API Gateway.
- A proven track record demonstrating the ability to influence organizational change from an technical and team perspective
- Experience establishing a successful technical product program at a large firm would be preferred
- Experience in identifying and fiscally quantifying technical debt so that it can be evaluated in product feature prioritization.
- Experience and expertise in the Lean-Agile portfolio approach
- Strong automation mindset and passion to identify or develop strategies to migrate manual intervention going forward.
- Practicing Knowledge in Software Engineering, AWS Cloud Management, Serverless Design Patterns, MicroServices Architectures, IT Security, Disaster Recovery Planning required
- Strong administrative and management skills, with a demonstrated ability to successfully plan and implement strategic initiatives and to inspire, motivate, develop and mentor staff
- Excellent technical, analytical and project management skills with experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities
- Excellent communication and people skills; orally and written, required for dealing with end-users, co-workers and service providers
- A demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
Auction Edge Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance coverage
- 401k Retirement Plan
- 20 days of accrued PTO as well as 12 Flex Days per year (one three-day weekend per month)
- 8 paid holidays, 2 floating holidays, and 1 paid volunteer day per year
- Up to $100 Monthly Wellbeing Reimbursement Program (gym membership, personal training, massage therapy, therapy apps, and many other options)
- Education Reimbursement Program up to $4,000 per 12-month period
- Focus Fridays
