Manager, Application Delivery

1 month ago

West Des Moines, United States Homesteaders Life Company Corp Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescription:

With a career at Homesteaders, you’ll do important work alongside people who want to make a difference as much as you do. We support each other’s success, value bold and respectful collaboration and promote a healthy work-life balance through our workplace, schedule and benefits. Homesteaders’ purpose is to help people design a better farewell, benefitting those they love. That means your role here will have a positive, meaningful impact on families who experience the many advantages of funeral and end-of-life planning.


As the Manager of Application Delivery, you will provide and assist with the technical direction, development oversight, and deployment of Homesteaders’ software solutions. Your role will be giving technical direction including the development and adherence to system/application architecture. You will help lead prototyping and rapid development initiatives within the team. You will be responsible for directing a single agile delivery team and collaborating with colleagues in other departments to help the customers you serve together.

Requirements:
  • Solution Design & Architecture: translates business requirements into solution designs and ensure all new development follows application architecture process.
  • System design & build: Performs and guides an applications delivery team in performing necessary tasks to design, code, test, debug, document, and implement changes to existing software applications.
  • Elicits business requirements and translates them into solution designs, including the creation of meaningful diagrams that can convey ideas to a non-technical audience.
  • Communication: Ensures that the appropriate people are informed of activities and progress made relative to milestones or tasks.
  • Testing: Performs, guides and oversees the performance of quality applications testing to assure the delivery of a product that meets the user’s specifications.
  • Uses the agile methodology to manage and complete work among the team.
  • Manages, coaches, and mentors team members toward desired team culture, level of excellence, and work quality and efficiency
  • IT Planning: Provides technical advice to senior IT management or project managers, assisting them with high level planning and cost justifications that impacts new or existing software applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 5 years of progressive, applicable experience working with application development tools and processes.
  • A minimum of 2 years .NET framework experience
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience utilizing SQL Server
  • Understanding of systems development methodology best practices.
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies, techniques, and tools; minimum of two years agile experience
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Our Benefits Include:

  • An excellent schedule – office closes at 1 p.m. every Friday
  • Annual profit sharing
  • 401(k) with company match with discretionary contribution
  • Company-sponsored group medical and dental insurance
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Company-paid long-term disability
  • Hybrid work environment
  • Paid holidays
  • Generous vacation time and sick leave
  • Paid parental leave
  • Casual dress year-round
  • Professional membership and licensing dues reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
  • Matching gift program

About Homesteaders:

Homesteaders Life Company, a mutual company owned by its policy holders, is a national leader providing products and services to help people design a better farewell. Founded in 1906, Homesteaders is known for secure preneed funding and innovative solutions that help funeral and end-of-life professionals and consumers connect with each other.

We are currently not hiring in Colorado, Montana, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and California.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

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