Application Development Manager - SAP

Job

Exempt

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

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Oldcastle Infrastructure Inc. is looking for a knowledgeable, hands‑on leader to manage the ongoing application development activities for our Information Technology organization. In this role, your duties will include delivering technical solutions based on business strategy, collaborating with colleagues, performing successful troubleshooting of technical issues, and mentoring a team of direct reports. The manager role will require astute customer service skills to manage internal and external end users of the application suites used by Oldcastle.

The manager will assist their team in prioritizing work and provide guidance to team members as needed to successfully complete projects. To ensure success as an application development leader, you should possess prior experience in technical application development and team leadership in a fast‑paced environment, hands‑on experience with a variety of business applications, and the ability to learn quickly while adapting to changes within the organization.

• This role will work hybrid out of our office in the Sandy Springs, GA area.

• Team Leadership
  • Provide people leadership/management to a team of three to six application developers under the supervision of the Director, Enterprise Systems & Development
  • Provide coaching and mentorship to ensure that the development team has all the resources needed to complete project assignments, quickly address any challenges and issues, and prevent or resolve conflicts as needed
  • Perform performance reviews and hold regular feedback conversations with direct reports.
  • Ensure team members understand development best practices and facilitate work in a timely, efficient manner to meet the needs of our stakeholders.
  • Hold team members accountable to follow all defined processes and procedures; collaborating with them to develop new procedures where needed.
  • Prioritize the creation, storage, and organization of team documentation knowledge base to ensure all solutions delivered are thoroughly understood, documented, and transitioned well to support teams.
  • Drive the strategy, roadmap, execution and optimization of our application development landscape with a cloud smart, vendor supported philosophy.
  • Ensure the team appropriately executes project deliverables according to committed timelines.
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure all deliverables are designed, developed, and supported appropriately.

• Project Management
  • Work with project managers/business analysts in development of project plans, functional specifications, resource plans, and project schedule estimates.
  • Work with project managers to set achievable timelines for team deliverables in conjunction with overall projects or programs.
  • Manage team members accordingly to meet or exceed expectations for project timelines
  • Ensure risks, actions, issues, and decisions are understood and communicated appropriately
  • Provide or contribute to project artifacts such as requirements documents, designs, test cases, and deployment run books

• Technical Leadership
  • Engage with business and IT stakeholders to ensure solution development is aligned with business goals and technical architectural principles
  • Propose informed ideas on technology strategy and direction
  • Provide technical oversight, leadership, and support of existing systems, including current custom applications, as well as the development of new applications/functionality.
  • Collaborate with team members on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); including requirements…