Application Development Manager at Responsive Search Inc. in Skokie, Illinois

Posted in Other 15 days ago.

Type: full-time





Job Description:

iSeries Manager of Application Development

Responsibilities include:
  • Managing the IT Development staff and contractors - currently consists of 4 resources
  • Design, development and delivery of quality business applications
  • Leading the approach and design of partner integrations
  • Using technical and functional expertise to be a lead architect in designing solutions
  • Lead design and review sessions with development team, business partners and management
  • Manage multiple, parallel projects using formal project management methodologies
  • Maintain controls that accurately reflect completed work against project plans, schedules and budgets, and ensure user/management involvement at appropriate milestones
  • Manage application design through the various life-cycle stages from business need through design and delivery
  • Manage project priorities, scope, budgets, timelines and expectations
  • Review, assess, and recommend vendor solutions and proposals for software and hardware
  • Develop business cases for requested investment
  • Lead the development of project documentation and training materials where applicable
  • Provide technical support and assistance as necessary
  • Establish and enforce best practices and implement policies and procedures for compliance to ensure company wide standards are followed and to meet SOX and security compliance
  • Provide management with regular communication on the progress of projects and other initiatives
  • Responsible for recommending staffing plans and skill sets on a per project basis
  • Responsible for the management of staffing
  • Facilitate a departmental culture that encourages ownership of departmental goals and a positive service culture

Experience/Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years demonstrated application development management experience in an ERP environment
  • Knowledge of supply chain principles and ERP systems
  • Strong technical knowledge of IBM i (AS/400), RPG, RPGIV/LE, CLP, SQL and DB2/400
  • Excellent knowledge of IBM i architecture including configuration and performance tuning
  • Extensive integration experience using APIs / web services and ODBC / JDBC connections to an IBM i
  • Results-oriented professional who is a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to use MS Office tools: Excel, Word, Power Point, Vision, Project, Teams
  • Demonstrated success of establishing, managing and maintaining effective working relationships at the management level, internal and external to an organization
  • Strong leadership, teaching and mentoring skills
  • Critical thinking, strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability
  • Ability to prioritize multiple projects, requests and support tasks effectively and efficiently
  • Experience with ERP Software, Datawarehousing / ETL processing a definite plus
  • Knowledge of Aldon, Robot, MuleSoft, JSON, XML, HTML, ASP.net, iCluster, Apache, Jira a plus

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