IT Manager Applications

IT Manager Applications

Houston, TX 77002 (ON-SITE)

2 months Contract to Hire

Description of Duties/Essential Functions:

The purpose of this position is to accomplish business objectives of the Applications function by managing one or more teams involved in the process of designing, developing and implementing of application and cloud technology/solutions (e.g. Middleware, applications, interfaces, security, and hardware) that interfaces with many sub-systems to improve operational costs and efficiency. Drive the cloud solutions through close alignment with marketing, finance, operations, sales and field delivery teams. May develop roadmap, define value propositions and solution positioning in the marketplace.

This includes applications systems analysis and development as required to maintain the existence, operation, planning and management of a department or enterprise IT environment, which also involves maintaining the area's technological level up to date, conducting studies and implementing new procedures and techniques. Understands architectural patterns of large, high-scale web and mobile applications and know best practices such as version control, testing, and continuous integration.

Responsibilities:

Management: Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring appraising job results; coaching, mentoring, and disciplining team members; developing, coordinating, enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.

Maintains high performing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training team members; maintaining a safe, secure, and discriminant free work environment; developing personal growth opportunities. Establishes strategic goals that such organizational objectives by gathering pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information identifying and evaluating trends and options; choosing a course of action; defining objectives; evaluating outcomes.

Operations: Implements service improvements by evaluating trends; anticipating requirements and leading multidisciplinary projects or initiatives; assessing current situation; and using expert knowledge Applications and database design and best practices. Keeps users informed by preparing performance reports and communicating platform status. Determines inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits. Enhance operational results by identifying developing strategies in application development planning, tracking, management, and quality. Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; forecasting annual budget requirements; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

Safeguards by planning and implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.

Customer Service: Maintains customer service standard by initiating, coordinating, and enforce program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures. Completes customer service operational requirements by scheduling and assigning team members; following up on work results. Maintains quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards; analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems; identifying trends; recommending system requirements. Assess customer satisfaction with services by designing and implementing satisfaction surveys, analyzing and interpreting results.

Team Effort: Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results and performing related responsibilities as needed

Working Conditions:

This position is physically comfortable; the individual has discretion about walking, standing, etc. There are no major sources of discomfort in a normal office environment. Operates a motor vehicle.

Education Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management and Information Systems (MIS) or a closely related field.

Experience Requirements:

At least eight (8) years of technology experience supporting applications for a department or enterprise IT environment that includes two (2) years supervising a technology team.

Preferences:

Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365

Experience with one or more of the following: with C#,.NET, SQL Server

Working knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (e.g. Jira)

Experience with Application Integration platforms.

Experience working with a portfolio of both on-premise and cloud hosted applications.