Application Engineering Director

Amerisure Insurance•Farmington Hills, MI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Amerisure is seeking an Application Engineering Director to manage and provide strategic direction in the development and maintenance of applications within the Information Technology department's portfolio. This role will lead and support application development process and methodology improvements to drive high quality, timely deliverables. The Director will lead the team in adopting user-centered design principles, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement processes. This position will influence technical architecture and related business and technology strategies to enhance current capabilities, deliver new solutions, and enable rapid experimentation and delivery. The role supports the Farmington Hills Office with a 3-day onsite hybrid approach.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience.
10 years of application development experience.
3 years of leadership experience.
Familiarity with modern cloud-native development models and integration architecture.
Experience leading a centralized team providing support to multiple aligned development teams.
Experience in Enterprise DevOps solutions with emphasis on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively build relationships across all levels of the organization.
Ability to think strategically with supporting analytical skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with ambiguity.
Ability to lead discussions, make presentations and deliver technical results to a non-technical audience.
Ability to manage multiple project work teams using applied principles of project management.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the insurance industry preferred.
Experience with digital transformation technology including Salesforce and customer portals preferred.
Working knowledge of web application development, APIs and API gateway strategies preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and direct staff in area of responsibility with an emphasis on talent management, development and succession planning in line with the company’s strategic direction.
Lead a software engineering team focused on delivering web applications, APIs and integrations (PL/SQL and ODI integration platform) while modernizing technical architecture, capabilities, and software development practices and/or platforms.
Act as Application Development Process Owner for a critical organizational improvement domain such as DevOps, Agile (Scrum or Scaled) or RPA.
Establish the processes and tools to be used to foster IT-wide maturity, adoption of software development best practices and provide technical guidance for teams.
Collaborate across teams to increase adoption of agile methodology and practices that increase organization effectiveness and engineering maturity.
Work with customers/stakeholders to understand critical business success factors and key performance indicators to be managed, negotiate desired service levels and manage business risks.
Ensure development strategy and system architecture is aligned with business and IT strategic objectives and technology standards.
Provide technical expertise and manage relationships with business partners and stakeholders.
Anticipate and manage technology evolution and relate it to business solutions in support of continuous improvement.
Actively cultivate an inclusive engineering culture to create high performing teams and individuals with a goal of sustainable, long-term growth and advancement and innovation.
Accountable for project/product delivery for area of responsibility including staffing, execution approach (design, development, testing and maintenance), customer satisfaction and associated metrics.
Responsible for budgeting, resource planning, personnel and administrative management functions for assigned development groups.