Director of the Front End Development team who are responsible for the application-layer within Travel Guard’s global systems.
Maintain a quality, highly motivated Development staff:
• Encourage professional growth and help identify growth opportunities for staff.
• Responsible for employee development through timely reviews, coaching and training.
• Interview, hire, train, discipline and discharge staff as required.
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• Promotes and maintains professionalism in the working environment.
• Create a clear vision and strategy for the team to move to an increasingly proactive and preventative role, meeting the rapidly changing demands of the business and evolving technology.
Pro-actively participate in the management of the Information Technology department:
• Work with senior management to set the overall department direction.
• Make recommendation for improvements in the delivery of services.
• Initiate discussions on issues or ideas, which span over various units.
• Take on special projects to implement changes to provide a unified consistent approach.
• Participate in setting short and long-term planning for the IT department.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge:
• Analyzes current processes for compliance requirements and efficiency.
• Makes recommendations on new technologies, processes and/or procedures.
• Determines how new technologies would be incorporated into the existing structure and what information needs they would address to maintain a high availability environment.
Adhere to all IT policies and procedures:
• Keep current with all policy and/or procedural changes.
• Apply all the approved policies and procedures.
• Make sure that co-workers are applying these policies and procedures as well.
• Serve as a primary resource of business logic and system functionality for IT staff throughout the development life cycle.
• Provide tactical and strategic input on the development process and product architecture.
• Provide leadership throughout all phases of the SDLC. Mentor software engineers and lead workshops to the wider IT group.
• Assist IT leadership in creating and documenting software development process and standards.
Position Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
• Education – Bachelor’s Degree in CIS/Computer Science or 10 years technical experience in an IT related area.
• Software and Industry Knowledge - Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc).
• Supervisory Experience - At least 3 years’ experience (or equivalent management training) in any of the following: Technical Lead Team Lead Management.
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