Overview

　　This position allocates technical resources and associates within the Information Technology (IT) department of the Bank. Manages an associate team to ensure effective delivery of service and project results. Oversees the design, implementation, and support of systems and applications. Partners with peers, senior management, business units, and associate teams to align projects or tasks with wider organizational goals. This position supports Community Association Banking Technology and is local to Phoenix, AZ.

　　Responsibilities

　　Project and Product Management - Provides direction and oversight to IT projects and products. Assigns project tasks, drives project schedules, product releases, and conveys results or updates to the appropriate parties. Develops and utilizes methods of tracking performance.Managerial Functions - Establishes and monitors expectations to achieve company and department goals. Makes appropriate changes to IT policies, standards, procedures, and efficiencies in order to meet objectives. Manages the performance, training, and evaluation of assigned staff. Maximizes department achievements by providing professional development. Ensures bank needs are met through prioritization and resource allocation. Supports budget forecasting, capital planning and invoicing.Business Support - Directs programming, business analysis, or testing activities, including the determination of scope, time and cost estimates, and system impact within user requests. Facilitates system modifications within existing system architecture and assists with architectural changes as necessary. Elicits and refines business technology roadmaps, including setting priority and understanding cross team impacts.Technical Expertise - Serves as a technical expert and strategic leader to senior management, associates, and business units. Ensures that team activities comply with all appropriate configuration, change controls, and security standards. Participates in business meetings and special projects to provide insight on end-user needs. Keeps abreast of industry trends. Identifies and holds accountable vendors in support of system updates and maintenance.Ownership of technical designs, code development, and component test execution to demonstrate alignment to the functional specification.Using configuration management and integration/build automation tools to lead and deploy Java code. Applying knowledge of common, relevant architecture frameworks in defining and evaluating application architectures.Performing code reviews and providing critical suggestions for fixes and improvementsSupporting issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue resolution.Fixing and performance tuning Java-based applications.Developing and demonstrating a broad set of technology skills in Java technologies, micro service design patterns, Open Source libraries and frameworks, and technology architecture concepts.Collaborating and managing a development team comprised of talented employees with diverse and complementary skills.Qualifications

　　Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Applications development, applications analysis or systems engineering OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Applications development, applications analysis or systems engineeringSkill(s): Previous leadership for technical implementation, Knowledge of Standard Development Life Cycles (like Waterfall or Agile), Knowledge of system and data designPreferred Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other relevant experience.

　　Preferred Skills:

　　A proven track record of successful project/product implementation with minimal of 7 - 8years of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and Test Driven DevelopmentProficiency in one or more backend languages (Java / Spring )Proficiency in one or more frontend framework (HTML5 / Angular / React)Has Test Driven Development experience and able to author Unit, Integration and Functional Tests.Must have strong familiarity of design patterns.Good communication and client-facing skills.