Technical Lead

Company Description

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued Team Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms team. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage Team Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Job Description

Pay Rate: $140,680 175,850 per year.

The Technical Lead will provide leadership, coordination, support and subject matter expertise for multiple assigned systems and modules (systems may include SAP and other systems supporting assigned business functions). This includes hands-on performing and coordinating the design, specification, configuration, customization, development, testing, documenting, and delivery. Responsible for support of software solutions relating to the master data, configuration, customization, reporting, and transactions associated with these processes. Provides senior technical guidance and assistance to other business systems team members, as well as business users.  Successfully functions as the highest-level technical resource within assign functions and as a technical leader within the IT Department.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Project Analysis, System Design and Project Management:

• Definition of business problems and opportunities, gathering and documentation of requirements, analysis and organization of information to support formation of projects, analysis of technology and infrastructure alternatives and implications.
• Translation of a conceptual alternative into a descriptive model, specification, data flow diagram or other relevant method that defines the system components which must be delivered, and the method for delivering them. Includes functional design, technical design and design validation.
• This position will be responsible for project management of small to mid size projects and oversight of the project activities of other application support specialists and functional analysts.
• Direct the planning, execution and support of the assigned projects, including project initiation, control of projects during execution and project completion/closure. Ensure project plans are in accordance with overall business objectives. Prepare and maintain detailed and summary level project plans. Prepare periodic management status reports and lead status reporting meetings. Collect and monitor data portraying the status of deliverables related to key milestones. In conjunction with IT Management, identify the staff with the skills required for successful execution of projects. Enforce the disciplined use of Foster Farms methodology in the planning and management of all assigned projects. Track and manage project budget

SAP/non-SAP Production System Support:

• Will provide primary end user support for the assigned modules. This includes troubleshooting, diagnosis, and resolution of end user problems as well as performing routine system maintenance checks and corrective actions such as maintaining, adjusting, and manipulating interfaces to SAP or other assigned systems where applicable.
• Will contribute to ongoing system improvement efforts. This includes collecting requirements from business users, researching available solutions, developing and documenting conceptual design alternatives, communicating effectively conceptual designs, writing technical specifications and, potentially, coordinating development work with IT Development staff, building and configuring prototypes and prototype documentation, communicating with and educating business users, conducting unit testing, conducting and coordinating integration and user acceptance testing, working with security team to ensure appropriate system authorization, migrating to production, preparing comprehensive and thorough design and training documentation, training subject matter experts, providing post-implementation support efforts interacting regularly with end users, engaging in troubleshooting and root cause analysis of production issues, and providing continuous improvements to all aspects of design and processes.

Technical Team and Department Leadership:

• Will provide technical leadership, assistance, guidance, and QA monitoring to other application support specialists and functional analysts. Provides technical leadership and guidance to team management.  Through subject matter, application, and technical expertise, identifies, r