Manager Application Development - Sacramento, United States - Ryder System

Ryder System

Verified Company

Sacramento, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Additionally, the Manager is accountable for working collaboratively with the Product Owner in fulfilling the overall vision of the product, as well as managing customer expectations, and ensuring process adherence that results in timely response to user requests for operational or technology improvements, and acts as a user advocate to other internal/external IT teams.

This position may be called on to provide a level of project management for single or multiple projects and/or manage vendor relationships with third party service providers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The IT CSS Application Development Manager provides operational leadership, guidance and financial oversight for the IT CSS Application Development team responsible for the solutioning, development, and deployment of business capabilities.
Provides technical leadership, sets technical priorities, and removes obstacles for developers.
Collaborates with other IT teams to deliver innovative solutions.
Interacts with business management and end users, establishing relationships with key individuals.
Participates in solution design, including integration efforts, and collaborates with the Solution Architect.
Works closely with the Product Owner and the team on Sprint activities, and provides recommendations on refining or splitting user stories.
Ensures all development projects are within scope, budget, objectives, schedules and resources for the respective group.
Achieves accuracy, quality, timeliness and user satisfaction by managing the prescribed software development life cycle.
Enhances operating efficiencies and metrics, improves customer satisfaction and improves financial performance.
Coaches and counsels employees on performance, sets performance standards, recommends pay actions and responsible for other HR actions.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Business Management, Engineering or related field.

Master's degree MBA a plus preferred.

EXPERIENCE

Seven (7) years or more experience Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible, comprehensive experience in Application Development and IT Project Management.

SKILLS

Possesses strong leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to lead, train and develop a selfdirected workforce, including effective delegation skills and ability to manage assigned responsibilities.
Superior interpersonal skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel.
Ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding.
Effectively and clearly communicates to the enduser community, tailoring the communication style/method to the specific need and be able to discuss technical solutions in a nontechnical manner.
Strong analytical/technical and problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
Demonstrated successfully implementing change/improvements.
Strong sense of personal accountability and a proven track record of achieving desired results.
Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors).
Flexibility to operate and selfdriven to excel in a fastpaced environment.
Works well under pressure, successfully meets schedules, works independently while interacting with personnel from differing groups and management levels to produce highquality work.
Capable of multitasking, highly organized with strong time management skills.
Demonstrated commitment to quality execution and customer service as evidenced by previous experience and performance track record.
Builds consensus, identifies group conflict, facilitates resolution and successfully performs in a collaborative environment.
Defines new operational models and procedures and works with metrics.
Works with reporting systems to pull data for analysis and decisionmaking.
Detail oriented with excellent followup practices.

KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge of full software development life cycle; expert level.
Extensive technical and professional knowledge; expert level.
Indepth knowledge of Agile/SCRUM framework and working experience in the traditional SCRUM ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Demos, and Sprint Retrospectives along with the corresponding tools used to managed the process; expert level.
Exposure to cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.
Awareness of programming standards and protocols; intermediate level.
Excellent knowledge of program coding techniques, file access methods, testing techniques and documentation methods; advanced level.

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