Sr. Manager, Applications Development, HR Systems

Overview

Now is the time to join us and make a difference. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.  Here at the American Heart Association, you matter and so does your career.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Manager, HR Systems at our office located in Dallas, TX.

 

In this role, you will be responsible for owning the HR Systems and Ancillary Application team.  The HR Systems team works closely with the HRIS Team to support the Association’s Workday Platform. 

Workday Responsibilities include Workday Integrations, Workday BIRT Reporting, Workday Studio and Workday Prism.  The Ancillary Applications include 15-20 internal systems used by internal teams that include: HR, Legal, Procurement, Communications, CEO Office and Finance.  Systems include SaaS and on-premise applications. 

Responsible for handling Association staff and contractors supporting these systems.  Includes developers, project managers, quality assurance and business analysts.  Also responsible for vendor relationship and involved in contract negotiations for all the various systems supported by the teams.  Duties include leading team resources within an agile framework and mentoring the team members in growing their skills and understanding of the systems. 

Leads technical conversations for problem design and architecture to meet the requirements defined by business.  At times, involved with the development team to code out features in Workday Studio and IntelliJ using Java.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

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Responsibilities

• Leads all aspects of development, configuration, management, support, and usage of assigned application systems for American Heart Association business units to meet ongoing technology needs.
• Development of Workday Prism, Workday BIRT, Workday Studio and other Workday objects and assets.
• Manages associated 3rd party vendor relationships, including ongoing support, contractual and cost reviews.
• Leads project scope development with project managers. Communicates' project status and time estimates for remaining work on a regular basis to appropriate staff. Prepares project status reports and conducts status meetings, as needed, with the product sponsor(s), business expert(s), user design team and senior management.
• Leads the team in problem solving and system design sessions to address business needs and projects and when needed based on changing needs, addresses the design and architecture to ensure successful completion of the projects.
• Attracts, develops, coaches and supervises team staff. Manages activities with complete integrity and in accordance with Association policies, systems, practices and programs.
• Participates in Business Technology planning process providing resource allocation information, high-level project estimates and technical mentorship to all departments and levels within the organization.

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Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in the related field
• Experience in application systems management, configuration or programming
• Experience leading all aspects of technology provided through internal platform or Service as a Software (SaaS) vendors
• Experience in strategic planning, including the ability to focus on overall strategic goals of the Association and dependencies on the assigned application system
• Experience supervising a team of analysts, developers, or administrators

• Comprehensive technical skills with Java, API Methods and system design
• Ability to communicate, both verbally and on paper; tailoring the form and method of communications to the needs and perceptions of the recipients
• Ability to break sophisticated problems down into simple elements and to solve them logically
• Ability to embrace and drive change, as well as remove barriers to change or accelerate the pace of change.
• Ability to attract, develop and mentor staff.
• Strong time managem