Application Development Manager - Digital Solutions & Services
What You'll Do:
• Supervise all aspects of staffing including selection, training / development, performance reviews, managing capacity / demand of work and controlling workflow,
• Ensure the goals of the company are communicated effectively to staff, that the goals of the team are in alignment with driving organizational results, and for driving goals and objectives as a part of the Digital Solutions & Services IT Leadership team.
• Serve as a key liaison between the team and the business areas it supports to interpret and analyze complex business problems and ensure the delivery of products and services.
• Work with other IT leaders, engineers, and development teams to implement high risk, highly complex business applications by defining business scope, objectives, requirements, and deliverables based on system development methodologies.
• Identify business system problems, determine level of urgency, work with technical team, and communicate to impacted stakeholders regarding issues, status, and resolution.
• Partner with IT leaders, engineers, and technical team to design and ensure compliance with underlying principles, assumptions, and strategies, ensure the integrity of applications, and to make recommendations for improvements.
• Partner with vendors to assist in recognizing possible business solutions and will partner with the IT Director to manage vendor relationships, Service Level Agreements, and to set priorities that are in line with business goals.
• Keep abreast of current technologies and assist the business with prioritization of maintenance and projects, ensuring that initiatives with the greatest benefit/risk will be worked first.
What It Takes to Join Our Team:
• College degree or equivalent plus 8 years relevant experience required. 2 years prior supervisory/management experience preferred.
• Strong leadership skills and a passion for developing people is required.
• Strong communication, planning, decision making, and negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and be able to build effective relationships with business, IT, and external vendors.
• Strong analytical / conceptual thinking skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to deliver outcomes is required.
• Aptitude to learn both business and technical terms and processes.
• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, Agile principles, and technologies specific to a distributed environment is preferred.
• Prior experience with agent-facing, customer-facing and/or sales applications or exposure to user experience initiatives is a plus.
• Prior experience in insurance or financial services industry is a plus.
• Must have or attain a strong understanding of all entities of the FBL Financial Group.