Job Description

DETAILS: DIRECTOR OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Title : Compensation : Great Base salary + Strong Bonus + Excellent benefits

Location : Hybrid Role- 4 days in office / Smyrna, TN (Suburb of Nashville)

OVERVIEW: DIRECTOR OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

We are seeking an experienced Director or Sr. Manager with a strong development and management background to lead and manage the leadership/managers over multiple software teams. Those managers’ teams are responsible for a large number of Custom applications, API Development, and Integrations/EDI to numerous partners, as well as ERP systems. This person will resolve complex software problems and provide strategic vision and leadership to maintain roadmaps, priorities, and timelines.

RESPONSIBILITIES: DIRECTOR OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

• Lead all the efforts in the Application Engineering and Integration Services areas.
• Mentor, coach, and develop Managers, Principals and Engineers.
• Assesses and comments on code as it is developed.
• Assist with identifying gaps in current capabilities and provide clear directions to the teams in managing the current while building the solutions for the future.
• Assists the upper management by providing inputs for technology modernization strategies
• Identifies Standards of code for “cross-pollination” to other projects.
• Oversight for development of proposals and prototypes.
• Manages software development processes.
• Works closely with operation teams to insure sound operation and delivery of service.
• Determines project assignments for development managers
• Budgeting and tracking expenses regularly
• Works directly with clients to integrate and support products.
• Works with leadership team to plan future R&D projects.
• Investigates new technologies, creating prototypes for business teams.
• Works with Account Managers and Business team on responses to client RFP's and integration requests.
• Determines new features with appropriate and effective design.
• Works with direct reports to build technical strategy and roadmaps
• Leads the discussion to deliver estimates for engineering efforts.
• Determines/creates an effective structure and organization.
• Engages with clients to understand their needs and demands
• Assesses applicability of tools/software for development projects.
• Researches solutions to bugs and other software performance issues.
• Plan and executes the people related activities like Talent Management, employee training, succession planning and performance appraisals
• Will implement and maintain IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (v6.X+), Sterling File Gateway, Control Center. in high-volume environments.
• Prefer Strong familiarity with Sterling adaptors (FTP/S, AS2, MQ, ODBC/JDBC).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: DIRECTOR OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Must have experience implementing and managing EDI efforts and teams
• 7+ years' experience in Application Development
• 5+ years of management experience
• Experience leading Application Engineering and Integration services teams, including EDI.
• Knowledge of any UI/UX Front-End frameworks like React or Vue.js
• Ability to use major RDBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL or SQL Server and any form of NoSQL like Mongo or Couchbase to invest in developing trends and core skills
• Knowledge of modern project life cycle methodology (Lean RUP, agile), Service Life Cycle (SLC), Release and Change
• Knowledge of Java, .NET or other relevant core development language.
• Knowledge of B2C Customer Service
• Knowledge of cloud best practices and technologies.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps best practices.

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