Head of Application Development

• Manage multiple teams of staff and vendors/contractors to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring delivery and end results
• Establish and maintain regular and open communications with senior stakeholders from the Business and Operations
• Drive the strategic recombination of platforms and applications to align with Digital First and future state goals
• End to end staff and delivery management for several of the most critical application platforms utilized by Agency & Trust
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area to resolve issues
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Coordinate with management across the organization to lead annual and mid-year resource and budget planning and ongoing financial reporting/reforecasting activities
• Work in partnership with the Global Office to provide accurate resource planning and hiring status to stakeholders and senior management
• Provide organizational and cultural change leadership and change management
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions
• Assess risk when business decisions are made
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations

• Experience of senior development management experience leading a team of managers overseeing local and remote application development, project management, business analysis, and quality assurance testing resources
• Hands-on experience developing applications including requirements, design, development, testing, implementation and ongoing support
• Experience delivering software solutions using an Agile/iterative methodology
• Expertise working with the business to provide project governance, demand prioritization, and resource supply management to ensure proper capacity planning, resource allocation, and staff utilization across the teams
• Extensive experience leading large technology programs and solution delivery teams inclusive of scope, scheduling, budgeting, and project planning in a matrixed environment
• Expert communicator and negotiator with exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Assist in the creation of standardized methodology and leading the transformation to Agile methodology
• Skilled multi-tasker with ability to manage numerous projects concurrently
• Experience raising the bar on staff delivery performance and cultivating high performance work environments
• Hands-on leader, visionary, and problem solver with a passion for excellence
• Experience managing vendors through the full vendor engagement life cycle including creating RFPs and SOWs
• Ability to work hands on with team members to inspire and motivate all levels of staff
• Substantiated experience using JIRA a big plus
• Hands-on early career experience in a technical IT role preferred
• ITIL certification a plus
• Prior industry experience in Banking/Financial Services or Professional Services/Management Consulting a plus
• Experience leading transformational programs and managing global technology teams a plus

• Experience using JIRA
• ITIL certification
• Prior industry experience in Banking/Financial Services or Professional Services/Management Consulting
• Experience leading transformational programs
• Managing global technology teams

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