IS Manager - Integration

Overview

Job Summary:

The IS Manager is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating the Integration Team within the Data & Integration vertical to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering exceptional business value to users. The IS Manager is expected to lead and manage the development, deployment, and support of new and existing capabilities related to Integration applications/services capabilities and other integrated solutions to meet the current and future needs of the business. This role is responsible for managing a portfolio of efforts (projects, product backlogs, etc.) using various agile methods in a fast-paced environment that will cross multiple operating companies and support organizations.

Required in-office presence at least 4 days per week.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Acts as technology owner, accountable for implementation and maintenance of products/services within the Integration area, partnering with Product Owners and Business Sponsors in providing transparency in execution and monitoring within delivery plans.
• Establishes direction and clear sense of meaning to inspire teams to create their own connection and passion to the business goals.
• Manages deliverables, risks, status, and quality elements throughout the lifecycle for work efforts; validates operational readiness for production launches.
• Drives team members to leverage or develop well-defined practices and processes that aid in increasing productivity and minimizing waste to ensure work is delivered on time, within budget, adhering to high-quality standards, and meeting customer expectations.
• Evaluates conceptual aspects of technical designs of applications, systems, and solutions to ensure sound decisions and investments are made in accordance with integration platform governance policies and standards.
• Establishes metrics, reports, and measures progress toward goals and effectively communicates progress to appropriate stakeholders.
• Anticipates and identifies tasks required to support change processing including performing change impact analysis, assigning tasks to project team members, verbally communicating complex issues, verifying that tasks are completed, and communicating implementation status.
• Assists the Delivery Manager in the execution and refinement of the Integration strategy, mission, and vision.

Supervisory or Management Responsibility:

• Responsible for the recruitment, supervision, development, training, evaluation, and product delivery of the individual contributors on the Integration team.
• Identifies and remediates skills and resource gaps required for future work.
• Acts as Coach-Leader, coaching others in their development as a leader and/or a more complex problem solver and focuses on helping others formulate their development agenda.
• Communicates and engages with highly technical knowledge workers. Able to challenge team members‘ thought processes to drive them to better solutions.
• Establishes operational/team objectives and goals.

Budget Responsibility:

• Significantly contributes to the development of product/service and/or departmental budgets and actively manages budget to plan.
• Shares fiscal responsibility for the organization’s technology investments and future planning of the organization’s spend.
• Manages monthly forecast and resolves against actual spend.
• Plans capacity fluctuations based on delivery roadmap.

Qualifications

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of Information Technology experience required.
• Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with delivering real-time integration solutions.
• Solid knowledge of Service-Oriented Event-Driven Architecture is required.
• Experience working with integration middleware and messaging platforms is required.
• Experience with Mulesoft, Amazon MQ, Google Apigee technologies is a plus.
• Experience working in an offshore/onshore collaborative environment.
• Experience with agile methodologies (e.g., SAFe, Scrum, Kanban).

Skills and Abilities:

• Superior oral and written communications skills required.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
• Proven ability to lead technology efforts or implement services and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong technical project management and/or leadership skills including the ability to plan, organize, and steer activities with competing demands.
• Ability to advise senior management in strategic decisions – from business use case prioritization to tool/software selection.

Core Competencies:

• Building Relationships
• Develop People
• Lead Change
• Inspire Others
• Think Critically
• Communicate Clearly
• Create Accountability

Benefits Overview:

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Hospital plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Company paid Short and long-term disability
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Allegis Group Paid Family Leave, Parental Leave)

Salary Range:

• $116,600.00 – $174,800.00
• The position is bonus eligible.

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