Application Development Manager

1 month ago

West Des Moines IA, United States Farm Bureau Financial Services Full time

Application Development Manager

Can you serve as the lead liaison between business department and IT to ensure the delivery of products and services? Do you have a passion for driving and supporting strategic technology initiatives? If so, this Application Development Manager opportunity could be a great fit for you

Farm Bureau Financial Services is looking for an Application Development Manager who will be responsible for implementing high risk, highly complex business projects. You will participate in regular meetings to keep both the business area and IT staff informed of productivity objectives, goals, and concerns. You will be tasked with working in a continually changing business and technical environment and must stay current on business and technology trends.

Who We Are: With Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We're proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members.

What You'll Do:

  • Serve as the key liaison between IT and the business area to interpret and analyze complex business problems.
  • Keep both the business area and IT staff informed of productivity objectives, goals, and concerns.
  • Partner with senior IT staff to design and ensure compliance with underlying principles, assumptions, and strategies, ensure the integrity of applications, and make recommendations for improvement.
  • Implement high risk, highly complex business applications. Formulate/define business scope, objectives, requirements, and deliverables based on system development methodologies.
  • Partner with software / hardware vendors to assist in recognizing possible business solutions.
  • Identify business systems problems, determine level of urgency, work with technical team and communicate to the business area regarding issues/status/resolution.
  • Oversee all staff development aspects including the selection, training/development, disciplining/performance review, salary administration, referring employee complaints, controlling workflow, motivation of employees, and assigned budget activities to ensure that the integrity of all system applications is always maintained.
  • Provide technical guidance and adherence to the SDLC process and promote the application engineering strategic framework focused on Planning, People, Process, Technology and Business Partnership.
  • Keep abreast of current technologies and assist the business with prioritization of maintenance and projects ensuring that the initiative with the greatest benefit/risk will be worked on first.
  • Participate in special projects by taking the lead in project proposal, justification, design, development, and testing and delivery phases.

What It Takes to Join Our Team:

  • College degree or equivalent plus 8 years relevant experience required.
  • Two years prior supervisory/management experience Preferred.
  • Good analytical/conceptual thinking skills, technical systems knowledge, and problem-solving skills are required.
  • Must have or attain a strong understanding of all entities of the FBL Financial Group.
  • Must understand the inter-relationship between business and technological needs.
  • Working knowledge of multiple IT platforms.
  • Oral and written communication skills as appropriate to this position.
  • Keyboard skills as appropriate to this position.
  • Must have or obtain knowledge of company adopted standards and a familiarity of current application development.
  • Ability to write, speak and read the English language.
  • Ability to work in person from our office in West Des Moines, Iowa.

What We Offer You: When you're on our team, you get more than a great paycheck. You'll hear about career development and educational opportunities. We offer an enhanced 401K with a match, low-cost health, dental, and vision benefits, and life and disability insurance options. We also offer paid time off, including holidays and volunteer time, and teams who know how to have fun. Add to that an onsite wellness facility with fitness classes and programs, a daycare center, a cafeteria, and for many positions, even consideration for a hybrid work arrangement. Farm Bureau....where the grass really IS greener

If you are interested in joining a company that appreciates employees, provides growth and professional development opportunities, and offers great benefits, we invite you to apply today

Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.

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