Manager of Systems Development (On Site)

Major Responsibilities & Duties

• Oversees sprint planning, backlog refinement, and agile ceremonies in partnership with the Director of Systems Development.
• Ensures development work is delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with organizational priorities.
• Captures cross-functional work with technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Maintains project risks, dependencies, and resource allocation.
• Promotes engineering best practices, coding standards, and modern development patterns.
• Ensures adherence to established architectural standards and collaborates with architects on solution design.
• Reviews solution designs, code quality, and system integrations to ensure reliability, scalability, and security.
• Supports the adoption of modern frameworks, cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Works closely with stakeholders in youth care, health care, and research to understand requirements and translate them into actionable development plans.
• Communicates project status, timelines, and risks to leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensures systems meet compliance, privacy, and data-security requirements.
• Ensures adherence to database design standards and monitoring practices to support stable, integrated enterprise systems.
• Ensures system designs and technical specifications are created, maintained, and aligned with organizational standards.
• Advises and works with other IT personnel in maintaining efficiency of corporate applications and operating systems.
• Identifies opportunities to streamline development workflows, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity.
• Contributes to long-term technology roadmaps and strategic planning.
• Supervises activities of the Systems Development team.
• Mentors and develops a team of software developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Conducts regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and professional development planning.
• Supports hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members.
• Maintains spending for adherence to budget, recommends variances as necessary.
• Manages projects and determines proper work procedures, job priorities, and prepares work schedules.
• Manages external development partners and vendors.
• Participates in management of vendor relationships.

  Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Ability to prioritize and organize a variety of tasks.
  • Considerable knowledge of computer program design and development methodology.
  • Considerable knowledge of computer logic, block diagramming, and flow-charting.
  • Considerable knowledge of standard computer languages and operating systems as well as emerging systems development technology.
  • Considerable knowledge of capabilities and limitations of information technology equipment.
  • Ability to plan, direct, and review the activities of technical personnel involved in the design, development, and implementation of applications programs.
  • Ability to review complex applications programs developed by internal programmers or vendors to determine their efficiency in meeting needs of user departments.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with senior level staff to determine information technology and applications needed to meet organizational needs and provide required informational data.
  • Ability to provide regular technical reports both verbal and statistical showing status of ongoing projects.
  • High level of professionalism, customer service, and integrity with all stakeholders and information technology staff.
  • Strong understanding of agile methodologies, sprint planning, and backlog management.
  • Familiarity with microservices, REST APIs, and modern integration patterns.
  • Knowledge of data privacy standards such as HIPAA, FERPA, or research compliance frameworks.

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent required.
    • Minimum of 5 years of experience in systems or applications programming and extensive experience in Windows Operating Systems, database design and administration, warehousing, programming languages, and managing projects required.
    • Experience delivering applications in regulated or sensitive environments (health care, social services, research, etc.) required.
    • Experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms required.
    • Experience working with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and UX/UI required.
    • On-call work to provide additional support and/or may require work to be performed outside of traditional business hours including early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays required.