Director, Application Delivery

About the role

This role provides technical direction, development oversight, and deployment of Homesteaders change and R&D initiatives. Your role will include driving technical direction, including the development and adherence to system/application architecture. You will help lead prototyping and rapid initiatives within the team, maintain in-depth knowledge of future goals within the HLC technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Leads Application Development staff by organizing work, assigning tasks, and managing hiring, performance, and employee development.

• Maintains and mentors developers to uphold team culture, coding standards, quality, and efficiency.

• Manages departmental budgets, monitors performance, and sets standards, controls, and procedures to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

• Collaborates with IT leadership to define strategy, application and data roadmaps, and procedures aligned to business goals, and maintains and updates these plans.

• Partners with business units to assess software and application development needs, deliver effective technology solutions, and drive innovation that improves operational efficiency and competitive advantage.

• Works with business stakeholders and IT leadership to understand strategy, needs, and the preneed insurance industry, and recommend innovative solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study.
• 8+ years of progressive, applicable experience working with application development tools and processes.
• 5+ years of .NET framework experience.
• 3+ years of experience utilizing SQL Server.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• Understanding of systems development methodology best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD products such as Azure Pipelines a plus.
• Experience with Git Repos, Actions and Runners.
• Experience with AI Assisted (Copilot, Claude) Software Development strategies.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies, techniques, and tools; 2+ years of agile experience, experience with agile transformations a plus.

Qualifications

Qualified candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.