Director Application Engineering - Raleigh, United States - William H Hunter Recruiting

Description

Seeking an experienced Director of Application Engineering. Excellent career opportunity.


Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of project development and product maintenance over the entire product life cycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, support) – includes product launch activities.
• Product Release Management for all departmental products and projects
• Responsible for departmental financial management and resource management, including staffing profile currency and interdepartmental reviews
• Provide mentoring and coaching to employees
• Ensure software development best practices are followed consistently across the teams, including estimation, design reviews, security considerations, code inspections, quality assurance, planning activities and set software engineering standards where gaps exist.
• Must be able to develop and understand the system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, to effectively coordinate the activities of the team.
• Responsible for assembling project teams, facilitating assignment of individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed and developing schedule to ensure timely completion of releases that include enhancements, maintenance and support.
• Schedule and facilitate project
• Manage relationships within project teams; between project teams and functional groups; between project team and senior management; and between project and the customer, whether internal or external.
• Create project plans; issues list, action items, status reports as well as adhere to internal project methodologies
• Identify and resolve project issues and risks, including tracking, escalation and mitigation
• Manage, integrate and balance resource requirements across multiple projects without adversely impacting deliverables, timelines or quality
• Report project progress to senior management and stakeholders, identifying issues and resolutions
• Supervise performance and professional development for technical members of team
• Build good team atmosphere by developing positive working relationships with team members and other departments
• Coordinate recruiting, hiring and performance evaluation requirements
• Implement and support company objectives and decisions
• Oversee and perform Project Development Manager duties as needed
• Estimate tasks
• Work closely with Application Architects to ensure development teams follow architecture guidelines and best practices.
• Work with Application Architects in identifying services with a holistic view of projects
• Assist in creating pre-coding review
• Review use of technology by project teams
• Attend key design reviews
• Analyze requirements
• Lead effort with technical resources within Product Development to develop implementable designs. Ensure those designs are reviewed with Application Architects.
• Measure and report project performance and status and identify and control changes.
• Monitor and control risk.
• Perform lessons learned.
• Interfaces across all of business. Able to understand impact to business from any IT change
• Interfaces across all of IT understanding and communicating impact from requests and changes.
• Lead solution/ proposal development activities for new business opportunities
• Interface with Category Directors to ensure software solutions meet objectives in priority order
• Foster a cultural environment of teamwork and innovation within and between teams
• Provide technical leadership across projects
• Present projects and at the enterprise level to business, executive and technical personnel
• Manage training opportunities for technical staff

*Requirements

• 1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related.
• 2. 5 or more years of Application Development experience.
• 3. 3 or more years of Agile Methodologies experience.
• 4. 3 or more years Managing Java Development Teams experience.
• 5. PMP Certification preferred.

_William H Hunter Recruiting www.williamhhunterrecruiting.com_


Job Type:
Full-time


Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:
Application Development: 5 years (Required)

Agile Methodologies: 3 years (Required)

Managing Java Development Teams: 3 years (Required)


License/Certification:

• PMP Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Raleigh, NC: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location:
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