Director Of Technology

The Timberline Group•Saint Louis, MO

4d•Remote

About The Position

The Director Of Technology role requires a broad base of technical and business analyst skills, with the capability to serve in a leadership role to drive organizational and IT system delivery results. This position involves proven experience in managing large-scale IT systems, including support and new feature development, and experience with creating or collaborating on IT system roadmaps that align with business objectives. The role focuses on building an internal network of business and technical relationships, researching and analyzing application specifications and technology approaches to ensure business requirements are met and are scalable for future product releases. The Director will investigate future-oriented products, take ownership of driving resolution, and make proposals that may include reusable components or technologies. They will research and propose technologies and IT systems that can accelerate the delivery of business value, and work with Business Analysts, Project Management, and Data Management to recommend future application solutions. This role also involves crafting enterprise system solutions, demonstrating fluency in the technical aspects of a suite of technical products and business applications, producing conceptual design documents and detailed specifications for large-scale and complex projects, and collaborating with cross-functional team members to diagnose and resolve complex defects. Additionally, the Director will work with Operations to develop implementation and contingency plans, provide application maintenance and support, and participate in and oversee the development team in resolving complex production problems. The role includes providing leadership and system strategy recommendations to senior leadership, coaching the Software Engineering team in various techniques, and driving delivery excellence for integration, engineering, and maintenance efforts.

Requirements

Expert Understanding and Implementation Experience in Standards and Best Practice: Database, Pattern Implementation, Coding, Architecture, Pattern Usage and Implementation.
Leverages Deep and Broad Knowledge: OO Concepts (Multi-Tier Competency, Expert in at least 1 Tier), Class Modeling, Design Model Translation, Substantial and Demonstrated Single Platform as well as Single IDE.
Technical certifications or equivalent level of expertise in the following technologies: .NET 4.x, SOAP / Rest Services, ADO.NET, MVC, Vue.js, Bootstrap, jQuery.
Maintain knowledge and skills in cross-platform mobile device application development.
Technical certifications or equivalent level of expertise in the following technologies: Xamarin, Swift, Objective C, Java.
Expert knowledge and skills in development and support of PL/SQL and report writing.
Technical certifications or equivalent level of expertise in the following technologies: SQL Server 2019, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Reporting Studio.
Expert knowledge and skills in development and support of B2B web service, enterprise data exchange, and file transfer.
Technical certifications or equivalent level of expertise in the following technologies: .NET SOAP / REST Services (ASMX, WCF, MVC), EDI, BizTalk.
4-year college degree, preferably in Computer Science or Business-related studies.
10+ years related experience in application engineering.
3+ years related to director-level leadership in mid-sized enterprise organizations.
Must be US-Citizen or Green-Card only

Responsibilities

Serve in a leadership role to drive organizational and IT system delivery results.
Manage large scale IT systems, including support and new feature development.
Create and/or collaborate on IT system roadmaps that align with business objectives.
Build internal network of business and technical relationships.
Analyze application specifications and technology approach to ensure business requirements are met and are scalable for future product releases.
Investigate future oriented products and take ownership of driving resolution and making proposals that may include reusable components or technologies.
Research and propose technologies and IT systems that can accelerate the delivery of business value.
Work with Business Analysts, Project Management, and Data Management to recommend future application solutions.
Demonstrate fluency in technical aspects of suite of technical products and business applications.
Produce conceptual design documents and detailed specifications for large-scale and complex projects to reinforce technical product and architectural standards.
Collaborate with cross functional team members to diagnose and resolve complex defects identified throughout the SDLC.
Work with Operations to develop implementation and contingency plans that mitigate risks for unfavorable occurrences in technical environments.
Provide application maintenance and support as required.
Participate in and oversee the development team in the resolution of complex production problems according to business requirements.
Provide leadership and system strategy recommendations to senior leadership.
Help drive delivery excellence for small- and large-scale integration, engineering, and maintenance efforts that may include integrating third party systems and new business features.
Coach the Software Engineering team in both formal and informal working techniques, creative problem solving and business support.