Sr. Manager of Applications and Data

American Carpet South•Passaic, NJ

About The Position

ACS is looking for a strategic, technically deep Sr. Manager of Applications & Data to own delivery across our application portfolio: ensuring quality, reducing vendor dependency, and building the internal capability that scales with us. As the Sr. Manager of Applications & Data, you will serve as the technical owner of ACS’s application portfolio, including our proprietary CRM, SaaS systems, installer and customer-facing tools, integrations, and our reporting and analytics environment. You will direct our contracted development partners, hold their work to a defined standard, and use AI-assisted development tooling to document and de-risk our legacy systems as we modernize. Your work will directly impact delivery quality, technical debt, and vendor dependency; translating business requirements into systems that are built right and built to last.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in application development and delivery, including hands-on work with SQL Server, stored procedures, web application development, REST APIs, and system integrations.
At least 3 years directing outsourced, offshore, or contracted development teams with accountability for delivery outcomes rather than task coordination.
Demonstrated practical use of AI-assisted development tooling, with sufficient technical depth to validate and correct what those tools produce.
Working experience with low-code platforms such as Quickbase, Power Platform, or equivalent, including judgment on when custom development is and isn’t appropriate.
Demonstrated ownership of source control, environments, release management, and software development lifecycle standards.
Experience with business intelligence delivery, including Power BI data modeling and report governance.
Experience documenting and modernizing legacy applications without full replacement.

Nice To Haves

Background supporting operations-driven businesses such as field services, construction, distribution, or logistics preferred.

Responsibilities

Own technical delivery for the ACS application portfolio, including the ACS proprietary CRM, Quickbase, installer tools, customer-facing tools, and all integrations.
Own the release schedule, deployment process, environments, and source control.
Own technical testing, quality standards, and formal acceptance of all delivered work.
Own production support escalation, root cause analysis, and technical debt reduction.
Maintain the ongoing functionality of the ACS legacy system, directly and through direction of technology vendors, to maximize operational continuity.
Execute change control in accordance with governance owned by the Sr. Director, escalating design-impacting changes for approval.
Direct all development vendor capacity, including scope definition, technical specifications, and work assignment.
Independently size effort, validate vendor estimates, and challenge scope or pricing that isn’t supported.
Review code and deliverables, reject substandard work, and validate timesheets against delivered output.
Ensure vendor work is delivered into ACS-owned repositories, environments, and standards rather than vendor-controlled environments.
Reduce single-vendor dependency across all business-critical systems.
Bring the legacy code base into AI-assisted development environments to generate architecture documentation, data flow mapping, business logic explanation, and technical debt identification.
Convert undocumented institutional knowledge into written, searchable, company-owned technical documentation.
Use AI-assisted development to accelerate enhancement, troubleshooting, refactoring, and testing of existing applications.
Evaluate and recommend platform approach for new capability across custom development, low-code platforms, and configuration.
Build internal delivery capability so a growing share of enhancement work is performed in house rather than purchased.
Support planned, incremental migration of components to a modern stack with parallel operation rather than high-risk rewrite.
Develop and recommend application architecture, integration design, and data model approaches to the Sr. Director for approval.
Implement within approved architecture and escalate any decision that alters approved patterns.
Maintain API standards, integration patterns, and technical documentation across systems.
Provide feasibility, effort, risk, and technical sequencing input on every business request before commitment.
Plan and implement systems automation where it improves efficiency and reduces manual effort.
Own the reporting and analytics environment, including Power BI data models, measures, refresh schedules, and report governance.
Own data integrity, validation, and reconciliation between source systems.
Own automation platforms including Power Automate and related workflow tooling.
Supervise and develop the Jr. Data Analyst, retaining architecture and model ownership at the senior level.
Provide day-to-day direction, priority setting, and performance feedback to development partner resources.
Onboard, supervise, and develop internal technical staff.
Establish and enforce development standards for documentation, testing, code review, and release management.
Report delivery status, risk, and technical health to the Sr. Director on a defined cadence.