Chief Application Development Officer

As a senior engineering manager, you will play a key role in leading cross-functional teams and driving the success of our application development efforts. Your primary responsibilities will include managing day-to-day relationships with teams, overseeing effective reporting within the application development team, and providing project management for business projects.

In addition to your technical skills, you will also be responsible for communicating complex technology solutions to both product owners in a business-friendly manner and to enterprise architects in most technical detail. You will work closely with teams to progress services to match client needs, facilitate compliance with agreements, and validate service levels meet business needs.

This is an exceptional opportunity to leverage your leadership experience and technical expertise to drive innovation and excellence in our organization. If you are a motivated and results-driven individual with a passion for application development and team leadership, we encourage you to apply.

• Leadership Experience
• 10+ years of application development leadership experience that includes:
• • 7+ years of technical experience within architecture development, integration of backend systems, and development
• • In-depth knowledge of integration approaches and architectures
• • Deep understanding of the pros and cons of cloud-native solutions, microservices architectures, and API orchestration architectures
• • Experience with technologies – Java, NoSQL, Spring Boot, and WebFlux, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud
• • Experience and understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, service mesh, load testing, and SEO
• • Strong understanding of API platforms, back-end services, databases, and networking components of full-stack infrastructure
• • Direct management of cross-functional, sourced, or matrixed teams
• • Undergraduate/graduate degree or equivalent education plus experience
• • Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations
• • Proven management experience in strategic planning and budgeting within one or more business groups
• • Experience with and knowledge of IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment
• • Proven management experience in application development across waterfall and agile environments
• • Proven knowledge of SDLC; good understanding of ITIL v3 Framework
• • Proven knowledge of Agile methodology; preferably SAFe Agile
• • Relevant technology certifications
• • Good process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem resolution skills
• • Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• • Knowledge of business environment, service requirements, and hospitality culture
• • Solid understanding of IT financial structures and ability to manage to corporate financial processes and standards
• • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms
• • Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls, and leading in a managed service environment
• • Ability to bridge the gap between technology and business
• • Self-driven, curious, and a fast learner, able to work in a fast-paced environment launching new consumer products to market
• • Possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• • Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate between technical and business teams
• • Excellent collaborator, working in fully agile product or software delivery teams regionally
• • Experience working in a product-based model and building strong partnerships with product owners by providing innovative technology solutions to complex business problems
• • Ability to communicate complex technology solutions to both product owners in a business-friendly manner and to enterprise architects in most technical detail
• • Experience/understanding of GraphQL
• • Strong experience and knowledge of what it takes to operate a production platform
• • Experience with automation testing, performance engineering, CI/CD, release management processes, and application deployments