Sr. Manager Technology

Senior Manager Technology

The Senior Manager, Technology provides strategic thought leadership and drives the delivery of innovative, efficient technical solutions across to drive improvements in Enterprise Platform Engineering and Developer Experience. The ideal candidate will bring extensive hands-on experience in Kubernetes, DevSecOps practices, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, AWS (Professional-level certification required), and full stack software engineering. A strong background in IT operations and platform engineering is also essential, with a proven ability to design, build, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure technology platforms.

Position Responsibilities: Strategy

• Partner with corporate functional leaders and execute a technology strategy that will enhance overall business capabilities.
• Stay abreast of technology industry trends and best practices.
• Continuously transform the organization to increase efficiencies and reduce overall expense.
• Partner with innovation team to test and learn emerging technology and its viable applicability to enhance corporate business capabilities.

Delivery Planning and Execution

• Create, prioritize, plan and execute portfolio/product roadmaps through collaboration with Product Management and DevOps, including the on-going resequencing of projects in the portfolio roadmap as priorities shift.
• Complete 90% of projects within 5-10% of approved funding and 1 month of baselined completion date.
• Reduce time to market by utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Provides insights on risks based on broad experience. Develops project risk profile, mitigation plan and contingency plan.

Technology/Operational/ Risk Control

• Lead integration and synergy between architecture/technology planning and development initiatives, providing direction and decisions in application development to support platforms.
• Cultivate good system management disciplines including clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, documented phase processes and checkpoint and detailed planning for system deployment.
• Ensures compliance and control activities support technology and enterprise business objectives and are aligned with executive risk tolerances and expectations.
• Ensures processes and controls within assigned area to enhance performance, security, reliability and availability of systems.
• Drive a continuous improvement and compliant culture through documented policies, procedures and architecture.

Leadership

• Leads large size technical project teams or programs that span the enterprise.
• Manage the financials of the assigned area with attention to the details of budgets while exhibiting a strict cost discipline and financial performance.
• Manage and develop team cultivating a spirit of one team with shared goals and objectives.
• Select, motivate and retain high performing talent.
• Work with senior leaders to evolve culture and organizational behavior, elevating technology into a strategic partner.
• Act as the principal technology advisor to corporate organizations and a champion for identifying, leading, and driving information technology transformation.