VP Applications Development

About the role

AgCountry Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit Services of America, and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives operating under shared management across eight states. Each association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, but they collaborate by pooling resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services. United by a common mission to serve rural America, they take pride in being a great place to work, reflected in the relationships team members foster with one another and with customers.

We are hiring for two VP Application Development leaders — one to lead the digital services team and the other to lead the retail lending team. The role will lead cross‑functional, agile development teams to drive complex business and technology evolution, partner with business and technology teams to ensure timely delivery of high‑quality solutions, attract, coach, and mentor team members, act as a principal agile/lean coach, and create meaningful measures of team success while continuously improving practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of technology solutions.
• Provide direct leadership for cross‑functional development teams, comprising internal technology and product team members and/or external partners, to deliver best‑in‑class technology solutions while meeting time‑to‑market needs.
• Develop resource plans aligned with investment objectives and manage the involvement of team members with the technical competencies necessary to achieve desired results.
• Ensure work aligns with organizational priorities and is sequenced and scoped appropriately to achieve desired outcomes.
• Collaborate with product and business teammates to develop incremental release plans that maximize value and align with go‑to‑market strategies.
• Champion lean and agile processes to optimize the flow of work and create efficiencies.
• Guide teams through the software development lifecycle, driving delivery of high‑quality solutions in a timely manner.
• Break down large, complex projects into meaningful iterative segments, emphasizing quick and frequent value delivery to reduce deployment risk and meet customer needs.
• Create and communicate expectations for delivery, including estimates and solution feasibility, with an understanding of known risks and constraints.
• Proactively mitigate risk of scope creep and business impact during transformational change.
• Resolve impediments and team issues in collaboration with leadership and other technology and business teams.
• Own the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and visualizations for an agile team, providing meaningful insights into team progress and performance.
• Provide support and maintenance of assigned systems to ensure security and reliability of solutions for teammates and customers.
• Partner strategically with business and technology teams.