AVP, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Job Summary: Responsible for designing and developing software systems and applications - create software or products tailored to a Penn Mutual’s specific needs. Act as high-level decision makers in the process, determining everything from design choices to technical standards, such as platforms and coding standards.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Provide strategic leadership and direction for the application development team.
• Team Management: Oversee a team of developers, ensuring they are motivated, aligned with company goals, and delivering high-quality work.
• Project Management: Manage the development lifecycle of applications, from conception to deployment, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Technology Strategy: Develop and implement technology strategies aligned with the company's objectives, ensuring the effective use of technology to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, such as product management, IT operations, and business stakeholders, to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Quality Assurance: Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes to ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of applications.
• Resource Allocation: Manage resource allocation, including budgeting, staffing, and vendor relationships, to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of the application development team.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to application development projects, such as technical challenges, resource constraints, and changes in business requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the application development team, fostering innovation, learning, and professional development.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and industry best practices, such as data privacy regulations and cybersecurity standards.
• Define standards frameworks and solutions, within best practices, for the development’s teams to follow.
• Manages the Development team with dynamic leadership that creates an environment of trust, continuous improvement, and teamwork including coaching, mentoring and career development.
• Establish and maintain software project management best practices, frameworks, and processes, such as Agile, Scrum, and DevOps.
• Monitor project performance and provide guidance and support to project managers to ensure successful project delivery.
• Track and report on software project portfolio performance, including key metrics and outcomes as well as setting the goals for each team members.
• Release Planning: Coordinate release planning activities with stakeholders from development, QA, product management, and IT operations to ensure alignment with business objectives and release schedules.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with third-party vendors and service providers, including cloud providers, data centers, and infrastructure vendors, to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met and issues are resolved promptly.
• Release Coordination: Manage the end-to-end release process, including scheduling, coordinating, and communicating release activities and milestones to stakeholders.
• Change Management: Facilitate the change management process, including assessing the impact of proposed changes, coordinating change approvals, and ensuring adherence to change management policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience as a Java developer & AWS platform with proven record of overseeing large cross-functional projects in a high scale application environment.
• 15+ years of experience with Java, JavaScript, REST, and JSON.
• A demonstrated understanding of web and API platform technologies including microservices, containerization, observability and Cloud techn