Enterprise Applications Engineering Manager, Demo - Maximus, Reston, VA
Enterprise Applications Engineering Manager
Job description
The Applications Engineering Manager leads an enterprise applications team in their design, development, implementation, and operations of information systems, databases, tools, and processes. Coordinates and collaborates with other program team leads and team members to ensure effective delivery of client services and governance process adherence. Provides subject matter expertise, formal recommendations, guidance, and oversight into software engineering, database administration, and business intelligence environments.
Responsibilities
Manage and support a team of 14 direct reports (software engineers, database administrators, business analysts, data modelers, and SharePoint administrators) including initiative planning, prioritization, and work delegation.
Evaluate and recommend strategies and operations for monitoring, maintaining, and evolving an application portfolio and underlying dependent server and database environments
Review all application, database, and business intelligence production change requests for quality and effectiveness (deployment, configuration, and rollback plan)
Identify monthly resource allocation, review effort estimates, and create weekly and monthly initiative progress status reports.
Assist with external/internal audits and resolution of findings for applications, middleware, data, and other environmental vulnerabilities
Ensure effective communication across other program teams as well as with business unit leaders, clients, and end-users
Assist client in evaluating environment, future needs, and new applications to establish strategic and tactical plans on one, three, and five year horizons
Perform analysis to compare and contrast options for new implementation of applications, systems, and processes; perform make/buy analysis; create reports and recommendations and present to the client for consideration
What You Need:
Minimum of 5+ years of enterprise applications experience as a team lead or senior level.
The ideal candidate will have the practical experience and technical skills to accomplish the following:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related field and seven years related work experience with applications, databases, and/or business intelligence. Two years of management leadership experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Ability to work in both group settings and interface directly with client/project counterparts to ensure high quality project delivery on schedule.
Experience with system administration of application servers, database environments, SharePoint farms, and business intelligence hosting environments preferred
Experience migrating on-premises web applications to cloud service providers
Experience with management and oversight of support of commercial off the shelf (COTS) and government off the shelf systems (GOTS)
Knowledge and experience with web applications (.NET framework, C#), database environments (Oracle 19c and SQL Server Enterprise 2016), and business intelligence/data visualization platforms (Cognos Analytics & Tableau Server) desired
Experience training, mentoring, and inspiring engineers
Knowledge and expertise operating with various solution development lifecycle methodologies (waterfall and Agile/Scrum)
ITIL, PMP, CMMI, Lean, Six Sigma and/or other related certifications are highly desirable
Optional Expertise in:
Understanding of cloud vs. on-prem architecture and DevOps preferred to enable IT strategic planning and decision making
Knowledge and expertise with daily utilization and capabilities of Atlassian JIRA and ServiceNow preferred
Experience designing systems with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) as non-functional requirements
Experience working with, configuring, or supporting clustered database environments (Oracle Data Appliances or SQL Server Enterprise as examples)
Basic knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, and project management office fundamentals
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