Applications Development Manager

Job Description:

Applications Development Manager

Description

Job Location:

• The office for this position is located at the Harry S Truman State Office Building, 301 W High Street, Jefferson City, MO. 65101.

Why you’ll love this position:

This is an exciting opportunity to serve in a leadership role for the Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division supporting the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). This is a manager level position responsible for the development and maintenance of DNR agency systems, as well as project and resource management. This position is responsible for approximately 20 full time staff. The full group supports an application portfolio containing over 100 applications mainly utilizing the Java platform and several other systems utilizing a variety of technologies. The DNR App Dev Manager will report directly to the Deputy Chief of Business Systems Development.

• Authorization to work in the United States is a prerequisite of employment. The Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
  
  
• The salary indicated represents a base pay rate. If the individual selected or the position is eligible for a pay differential (e.g., shift, security, or years of service), it will be added to the total compensation in your paycheck. A pay differential does not raise your base pay.

This position is with the Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division (OA-ITSD) supporting Business Systems Development (BSD).

ITSD Core Values - We Innovate and Partner with Passion, Respect, and Integrity United as #OneTeam.

The successful candidate will:

• Possess significant experience with all aspects of managing staff, along with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate to staff and stakeholders expected outcomes and impacts.
• Engage and maintain the appropriate members of a cohesive team to support the needs of the DNR that may include the Business Relationship Manager, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Architects, other Application Development Managers as well as your direct team.
• Coach team members to continually deliver high quality solutions that exceed customer expectations and provide outstanding customer service.
• Determine resource needs (future and near-term) and take a lead role in recruiting, onboarding, developing, recognizing, and compensating employees.
• Cultivate strong relationships that encourage personal and technical development in your team as you mentor, communicate expectations, monitor and provide advice on performance.
• Utilize available tools to coordinate and monitor work products to build, enhance and maintain software solutions and monitor on-going maintenance work items, establish reporting metrics and benchmarks that provide feedback on development pipeline and team performance to stakeholders.
• Communicate status to users, stakeholders, customers, steering committees and internal/functional IT teams. Escalate issues and offer potential solutions to solve problem(s).
• Ensure secure coding and comprehensive testing of all development work to achieve the highest quality releases possible.
• Provide value added Level of Effort (LOE) input in State Fiscal Notes and future projects.
• Act as a catalyst for continuous improvement in the solution portfolio and development processes.
• Act as a liaison across Application Development, PMO, and Infrastructure teams to determine the most efficient path to deliver solutions and enhancements.
• Assist PMO with vendor management and contracts.

• Able to effectively prioritize and assign work in order to meet deadlines.
• Able to present ideas and proposals to wide range of audiences spanning technical and functional and including agency leadership, ITSD leadership, and vendors.
• Demonstrates strong leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution skills and the ability to champion continual improvement, empowerment, and drive increasing transparency.
• Aptitude and desire to quickly learn new technologies and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical people.
• Process improvement and application development methodology knowledge highly desirable.
• Ability to work on multiple projects or tasks at the same time in a fast-paced environment and adapt easily to changing tasks.
• Familiarity with web based and cloud technologies.
• Successful background check results are required for employment in this position. This may include background checks involving a candidate’s name and/or fingerprints and other screenings as needed for the specific position.

Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

In addition to those identified in the previous levels: Skill in communicating with technical experts, clients, vendors, and staff. Ability to mentor and promote skill development of staff.

The classification for this position is Applications Development Manager ; click for more information.

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here .

If you have questions please contact: ITSDRecruiting@oa.mo.gov

Salary:

$77,746.75-$99,999.84 per Year