PeopleSoft Platform Manager – Platform Technology Manager

About the role

The Platform Technology Manager oversees a team of platform engineers, technicians, and administrators and drives the development and evolution of the organization's platform infrastructure, automation tools, storage, and deployment pipelines. This role plays a critical role in shaping the technical infrastructure of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversees rigorous quality assurance processes to deliver reliability, performance, and safety objectives.
• Oversees staff workload and quality of work, addressing performance issues when needed.
• May contribute to or influence the strategic direction of one or more disciplines within IT.
• Affiliate with the implementation of the strategy.
• Translates policy into operational plans.
• Results may impact the metrics of a functional area within IT and are visible to a variety of internal stakeholders and senior management.
• Leads a workforce focused on a discipline within IT.
• Directs one or more professional individual contributors.
• Manages day-to-day operations and motivates team(s) to achieve results; may be responsible for a budget.
• Supervises a professional team of IT staff in the selection, adoption, development, and support of one or more product lines through all stages of the product lifecycle, from ideation, definition, prototyping, design, validation & testing, launch, run stage, and eventually product retirement.
• Collaborates with IT and business leaders to create, deliver, and manage product and organizational roadmaps to maintain alignment with defined digital agendas and service expectations.
• Maintains an engaged workforce and fosters a positive culture throughout organizational change.
• Continuously develops and maintains personal knowledge of relevant industry models, methods, and tools, emerging technologies, and high-impact regulatory changes.
• Provides expert-level guidance and training to the IT community and mentors less experienced staff to foster talent development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS)
• Minimum 5 years of relevant technology experience and leadership ability.
• A combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Must possess an expert/highly proficient in deep understanding of technology.
• Expert/Highly Proficient ability to develop and implement enterprise product solutions.
• Ability to prioritize, handle multitasking, and work in an agile environment.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand new technologies.
• Expert/Highly Proficient proven ability to manage projects and initiatives.
• Expert/Highly Proficient ability to fit in with the constantly shifting needs and demands of the business departments.
• Proficiency in at least one software engineering methodology, including but not limited to: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Rapid Application Development (RAD).
• Familiarity with the following vendor-specific platforms: Job Specific (e.g., Azure, Windows Server platforms, RESTful APIs, Linux, PeopleSoft, ServiceNow, Google Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, and Anypoint Platform).
• Programming experience with the following language(s): Job Specific (e.g Ruby, Python, Java, Kotlin, Bash, C++, COBOL, Puppet, Perl, PHP, etc.).