Development Manager

Reporting to an Associate Director, Technology, the Development Manager is responsible for leading technology teams in planning, developing and launching interactive solutions for our clients.  The Development Manager relies on their experience and knowledge gained through participating in a variety of technology initiatives.  In addition to managing the technical project team, the Development Manager will interact with the variety of resources within the organization including application architects, designers, information architects, and client services managers to help ensure the successful delivery of the entire project.

 

Essential Job Functions

Practice Development

· Stay up-to-date with current technologies, techniques, and apply this knowledge to project work

· Contribute to and guide the Technology Domain point of view

· Manage direct reports and perform annual performance reviews.  Guide and mentor assigned direct reports.

 

Client Delivery

· Lead and manage technology teams to deliver on-time, robust solutions for our clients

· Actively participate in project requirements definition

· Enforce appropriate standards, processes, and documentation required to successfully deliver projects as well as required to comply with internal and/or client methodologies 

· Apply appropriate packaged (off-the-shelf) software solutions and services as required by the project

· Define sourcing/staffing plan for assigned projects

· Work with technical project team to author SRS and SAD documents

· Manage technology work and scope to the project’s SOW, SRS, and any other document signed off by the client; help Project Manager identify needs for change orders

· Serve as single point of contract to other domains for all assigned project work

· Drive client discussions regarding project status and provide technology insights and recommendations

· Work with client IT contacts to determine the appropriate technical strategy for the project

· Contribute technical tasks and activities to overall project plan

 

Business Development

· Contribute to new SOWs for new clients

· Help define project budgets and timelines

· Accurately estimate hours and project time needs as well as any accompanying assumptions

· Identify opportunities with our clients to innovate and expand our work

 

Required Qualifications

· A Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, CIS, CS or Communications or equivalent experience

· 1-3 years experience managing or mentoring technology teams to deliver web-based applications.

· 1-3 years experience with SDLC methodologies (waterfall, agile, etc.)

· Experience with the Rational Unified Process (RUP)

· Ability to identify major project risks and issues and raise them in a timely fashion

· Demonstrated understanding of web application development best practices, including use case development, object-oriented analysis, design, and programming, UML, reusable design patterns, and multi-tier architectures, understanding of web technologies including HTML/JavaScript/XML/CSS, JSP, ASP.NET, and Flash

· Ability to effectively drive a technical project team to success despite project ambiguity

· Ability to effectively and accurately delegate responsibilities and balance work across available resources

· Understanding of the role of QA processes in the overall project success

· Strong communication skills with the ability to present information in verbal, written or visual form to a variety of audiences, from the internal team to client executives

· Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, team oriented and creative environment

 

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience managing teams to  implement complex visual designs for public-facing web sites

· Experience using MS Project

· MBA