Senior Director, Digital Development and Innovation | $220,000
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Job Duties
- Help develop and support digital product solutions across various divisions
- Drive the development of innovative technologies and related strategies to deliver on corporate goals
- Act as technical visionary while applying business understanding to keep marketing and IT initiatives cohesive
- Provide enterprise architecture and promote technical alignment
- Enhance service delivery to find new internal efficiencies and customer engagement
- Partner and build trust by working closely with leadership across multiple departments to enforce collaboration and transparent communication
- Work with cross-functional teams to define and deliver industry-leading products and services in partnership with leasing and marketing teams
- Work with divisional product owners to create product roadmaps, strategies, and technical solutions for web and mobile apps
- Serve as a critical subject matter expert to help answer and be a hands-on resource to solve various challenges
- Provide thought leadership on innovative industry trends, concepts, and technologies and use them to identify opportunities that may benefit the organization
- Establish priorities and work assignments based on business, stakeholder, and divisional requirements
- Partner with stakeholders to understand goals and user requirements. Analyze potential solutions to recommend appropriate execution strategy and cost
- Partner with company-wide marketing teams, build and evolve digital applications to meet the future needs of the business
- Provide statuses and communicate with senior management and leadership as needed
- Manage vendors and agency relationships, including technical, legal, and financial guidance
- Lead and manage teams of onshore, nearshore and offshore developers
- Oversee financial budgets and create forecasts for digital development activities
- Attract, retain and lead high-performing team members through training, open communication, training, and development opportunities
- Manage, support, and promote multiple enterprise applications used across the organization
- Understand and promote best practices and secure coding standards
- Be an active and hands-on contributor to Web and Mobile applications, including DevOps
- Other duties as assigned
General Experience
- BS or MS degree in a computer science or other technology field
- 8+ years digital development experience with a focus on web, mobile applications and cloud technologies
- Proven ability to successfully work independently using a business-focused entrepreneurial approach
- Proven experience leading application from inception to launch including budget forecasting
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong business and technical acumen
Technical Experience
- Expertise in core web and mobile technologies
- Proficiency in network and DevOps fundamentals, including infrastructure as a service understanding
- Strong understanding of customer experience best practices and design
- Strong knowledge of application security and governance best practices
- Strong debugging skills across various and upcoming technologies
- Self-starter, able to work independently and learn with minimal supervision
- Ability to effectively document business processes and apply technology to optimize and automate processes
- Act as a senior developer and actively produce production code in Java, Javascript (front-end and back-end), PHP and Python
- Experience working with React, React Native, Vue.js and SPA applications
- Experience working with Adobe Experience Manager, Wordpress and Contentful
- Experience with CSS preprocessors, LESS, or SCSS
- Experience with client- and server-side templating frameworks
- Experience with front-end build systems like Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, etc.
- First-hand DevOPS knowledge and ability to work on Redhat servers
- Subject Matter Expert on Google Cloud Platform services
- Hands-on experience with setting up and maintaining Cloudflare services
- Proficient with Git source control
- Understanding of Agile methodologies
- Experience creating and contributing to product roadmaps
- Experience analyzing and estimating software requirements
Special Experience Desired
- Familiarity with various Salesforce products including maintaining Heroku applications
- Experience working with Firebase and Google Analytics products
- Experience working with Algolia or Elasticsearch
- Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service and Adobe Managed Services
- Experience working with Next.js, GraphQL
- Experience administering Atlassian Products, Postman, App Stores or any other enterprise applications