IS Manager-Batch Automation & Operations - Allegis Group

Job Summary:

Our mission on the Enterprise Business Systems team within Allegis Group is to build an Engineering and Operations team that supports our future state ERP platform as well as to transform the way we do things and establish a continuous improvement cycle to achieve greater results.

To help achieve this, we’re looking for an IS manager to help develop new solutions, grow our agile teams, and establish new ways of working.  The primary focus of this role is to manage our Automation efforts, the current team maintaining our production batch schedule, the team developing the future state batch schedule, and the DevOps team challenged with streamlining our future state engineering efforts.    Responsibilities are fluid and can change as new initiatives or opportunities arise.

The IS Manager is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating the Batch Automation team and the DevOps team from the Enterprise Business Systems team to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering exceptional business value to users.

Essential Functions:

• Acts as technology owner, accountable for implementation and maintenance of products/services within the EBS Engineering team, partnering with Product Owners and Business Sponsors in providing transparency in execution and monitoring within delivery plans
• Manage the existing production automated batch schedule as well as the development of the new batch schedule – including streams for Payroll, Billing, Accounts Payable, Data Warehouse, etc.
• Establishes direction and clear sense of meaning to inspire teams to create their own connection and passion to the business goals
• In partnership with the Scrum Master, drives team members to leverage or develop well-defined practices and processes that aid in increasing productivity and minimizing waste to ensure work is delivered on time, within budget, adhering to high-quality standards and meeting customer expectations
• Manages deliverables, risks, status, and quality elements throughout the lifecycle for work efforts; validates operational readiness for production launches
• Evaluates conceptual aspects of technical designs of applications, systems and solutions to ensure sound decisions and investments are made in accordance with application architecture governance policies and standards.
• Establishes metrics, reports and measures progress toward goals and effectively communicates progress to appropriate stakeholders
• Manage license agreements for technologies on the team (Autosys, iDash, ACCE, etc.)
• Assist in the creation, management, and maintenance for Statements of Work
• Assists the Delivery Manager or Director in implementing best practices and champions ongoing process improvement initiatives

Supervisory or Management Responsibility:

• Management responsibility for the Batch Automation and DevOps teams, including hiring, leadership, development and accountability for performance
• Acts as Coach-Leader, coaching others in their development as a leader and/or a more complex problem solver, and focuses on helping others formulate their development agenda
• Assists in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring team members
• Promotes empowerment of the team, ensures that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourages a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team
• Communicates and engages with highly-technical knowledge workers. Able to challenge analysts’, developers’, testers’ and architects’ thought processes to drive them to better solutions
• Establishes operational/team objectives and goals

Budget Responsibility:

• Contributes to the development of product/service and/or departmental budgets and actively manages budget to plan
• Shares fiscal responsibility for the organization’s technology investments and future planning of the organization’s spend

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum of 10-12 years of Information Technology experience
• Experience overseeing multi-function team members including project managers or scrum masters, developers, business and/or systems analysts, and quality assurance personnel
• Experience with enterprise-scale applications
• Experience working in an offshore/onshore collaborative environment

Skills/Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Proven ability to lead software development efforts or implement services and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Solid technical project management and/or leadership skills including the ability to plan, organize, and steer activities with competing demands
• Developing knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish/maintain elevated level of customer trust and confidence
• Solid understanding of systems development life cycle models
• Able to identify and understand complex problems/issues and develop solutions
• Ability to travel without restrictions (domestic and international)
• Working knowledge of Autosys, iDash, PeopleSoft, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Bitbucket, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Oracle Fusion preferred but not required

Core Competencies:

• Build relationships
• Develop people
• Lead change
• Inspire Others
• Think critically
• Communicate 
• Create accountability