DDAT Senior Manager IBMi Platform Integrity

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Position Summary

As leader of the Rx Claim Platform Integrity team, you will be expected to be proficient in all critical functions of the application development, platform specific systems and tools, and champion policies and procedure with a deep understanding of best practices to ensure that application(s) and system stability is maintained. We believe for success you should have flexibility, possess a positive outlook, discernment, and inspire change within a fast-growing environment.

This team directly impacts the lives of our pharmacy customers by creating systems that process prescriptions. The systems we work with process millions of scripts a day and is business critical. You can work knowing you are helping many people each day.

The IT Development Senior Manager position exists to successfully support projects / initiatives in an information technology (IT) department. You will coordinate individual or team activities with CVS Health and vendor staff resources. You will provide guidance and direction to project teams and direct reports on technical and functional standards and practice, process and procedures, and career development. You will participate in annual budgeting, capital processes and quality improvement activities for the organization.

**We prefer candidates be hybrid in Richardson, TX but can consider other hubs or remote for the right person.

You will:

• Provide leadership and guidance to a team of IT professionals in establishment and execution of database and application strategy ensuring platform integrity and stability.

• Align the RxClaim data resources for growth; enhance the long-term value of our data assets by advocating sound data architecture and ensuring on-going integrity for the DB2i database.

• Facilitate the design, continued update of technical training, onboarding, and architectural documentation specific to IBMi RxClaim domain and delivery.

• Maintain and enhance communication of common standards for database and release level deliverables.

• Provide for efficient and accurate release staging and environment build related activities supporting development, change management and DBA tasks.

• Collaborate with development and support teams to continually improve code release quality through the documentation of root cause and defect elimination plans for release level issues

• Monitor and track RxClaim performance metrics and continue to enhance capabilities to support this objective.

• Maintain an inventory of internal development tools and facilitate the ongoing maintenance of those tools.

• Influence and support IBMi modernization objectives as well as implementing automation and retooling solutions where appropriate within the scope of ownership of the Platform Integrity Team.

• Support process and tool enhancements that will enable continuous improvement & continuous delivery (CI / CD) where appropriate within the scope of ownership of the Platform Integrity Team.

• Effectively delegate work to team members; challenge team members to develop as leaders while serving as a role model and mentor.

• Plan for and acquire team resource needs, making the most effective use of people involved with the objectives of the Platform Integrity Team– this entails day-to-day team management, team communication, identifying and leveraging strong skills while developing others to work collaboratively with other teams and understanding how to obtain consensus across multiple departments and across groups with sometimes conflicting priorities.

• Monitor and manage the teams’ processes and track progress against milestones, deadlines and budgets. The administration of time management includes assignment of forecast and tracking, time/expense reconciliation and enforcement of time entry standards within the team.

Resource Management

• You will set yearly goals focusing on career development. Discuss and layout plan of action to achieve goals and expectati