Manager Application Development (Local / Hybrid)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager of Application Development provides end-to-end leadership for the Alerts and Notifications and Product Development DevOps teams, ensuring reliable delivery and ongoing operation of secure, high-availability solutions. This role owns the software delivery lifecycle and operational readiness for these services, establishes team policies and performance objectives, partners with Product and business stakeholders to prioritize work, and ensures alignment with Product Development standards and organizational requirements, including HR compliance. The role also defines and reports delivery and reliability metrics to executive leadership, proactively escalating risks and tradeoffs. In addition, the manager develops and retains talent through coaching, performance management, and succession planning.

Requirements

Management / Leadership experience
IT application development and SDLC background
Experience in the Java technology space
Experience managing a DevOps teams (a plus)
Bachelor's degree (Required)
Leadership (Intermediate): Motivates and inspires others to perform at a high level. Puts aside personal needs and considerations for the good of the team. Communicates in a positive and constructive way, demonstrating an enthusiasm for team and unit goals. Takes appropriate risks, showing and accepting personal accountability for actions and decisions. Gets others to share challenges and perform as a valuable member of the team and unit. Accomplishes results through influence, coaching, communication and commitment with minimal use of authority and control.
Compliance (Intermediate): Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
People Management (Intermediate): Successfully resolves conflicts and disciplinary problems. Provides counseling and career development planning to subordinates. Constructively gives timely positive and negative feedback, confronting individual performance problems in a professional and sensitive manner. Aware of the values, abilities and needs of others. Demonstrates the ability to create a positive work climate, establishing a feeling of partnership and empowering others. Has set, coached and assessed the assignment objectives of subordinates. Practices and rewards behaviors supportive of company values.
Operations Planning (Intermediate): Demonstrates ability to forecast complex resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work for a single functional area. Merges diverse points of view into a coalition with shared goals and objectives. Plans for and anticipates events outside of immediate responsibility. Identifies relevant stakeholders and gains their commitment. Anticipates problems and obstacles before they arise. Able to absorb changes to major assignments while maintaining a high level of performance. Competently handles multiple assignments and projects simultaneously. Sets priorities with a proper sense of urgency and importance. Develops creative ideas and takes innovative action to achieve planned goals and objectives.
Business Results (Novice): Develops and implements appropriate measures for attaining well-defined business results and tracks progress in meeting goals and objectives. Continuously demonstrates a strong focus on quality in spite of pressures from competition, budgets, and time. Anticipates and responds effectively to customer needs. Sensitive to changes in the environment which may impact customer satisfaction, product quality, or profitability. Able to specify clear, precise personal objectives.
Quality Management (Novice): Has provided continuous analysis and evaluation of assignment work processes, constantly striving for improvement in the way tasks and activities are accomplished by questioning their value to the process and contributing creative solutions. Has participated in the process of establishing, communicating and monitoring standards for quality and excellence. Demonstrates the ability to actually work on and improve a current business process, product or service.
Relevant Work Experience
5 years
Bachelor's (Required)

Nice To Haves

Experience managing a DevOps teams

Responsibilities

Collaborates to operationalize the mission, strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies.
Prepares annual operating and capital budgets following established guidelines and using benchmark data.
Develops and monitors the implementation of area specific plans linked to organizational goals.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.