Application Manager – Sr - GCP

The Huntington Enterprise Payments team is seeking a Senior IT Application Manager to lead a high-performing application development team responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and supporting cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will provide technical and people leadership across front-end and back-end development, including modern user interfaces, Java-based services, APIs, microservices, data integrations, and containerized cloud deployments.

• Lead delivery of business-critical applications using GCP cloud-native architecture, full-stack development practices, and enterprise engineering standards.
• Manage and mentor a team responsible for front-end development, back-end services, API integrations, data processing, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to design scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available solutions using GCP services, microservices, containers, and modern integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership for Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, React or Angular, Type Script/JavaScript, SQL/No
  
  SQL databases, messaging, and event-driven architecture.
• Oversee Agile delivery activities including planning, estimation, design, development, unit testing, defect resolution, release readiness, implementation planning, and change execution.
• Track and communicate delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes using tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Service Now, Git, Jenkins, and related enterprise platforms.
• Champion secure development practices, cloud governance, vulnerability remediation, code quality, automated testing, and compliance with enterprise risk standards.
• Guide design reviews, code reviews, testing strategies, technical documentation, and production readiness reviews.
• Lead incident response and problem management for high-priority production issues, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention plans.
• Drive observability and operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, logging, performance tuning, capacity planning, and resiliency improvements.
• Maintain evergreen documentation including application architecture, cloud deployment patterns, developer standards, onboarding guides, runbooks, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Collaborate with business partners, product owners, QA, infrastructure, cyber security, database, networking, and vendor teams to deliver high-quality technology outcomes.

• 10+ Years of related experience.
• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of hands-on application development experience, including enterprise Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and integration technologies.
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing application development teams in an Agile delivery environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud-native development experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable public cloud services.

• Experience developing and supporting both front-end and back-end application components, including React, Angular, Type Script, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Java, Spring Boot, APIs, and database integrations.
• Strong understanding of GCP services and patterns such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Big Query, IAM, Cloud Build, and cloud networking concepts.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development, automated builds, deployments, and release management.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture, API design, distributed systems, design patterns, resiliency, scalability, and performance engineering.
• Experience with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases, SQL queries, data integration, and secure data handling practices.
• Proven ability to lead production support, incident management, root cause analysis, and operational improvement for business-critical applications.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder partnership, technical documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor developers, influence cross-functional teams, and translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Google Cloud certification such as Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Developer, or Professional Cloud Dev Ops Engineer.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications to GCP cloud-native platforms and decomposing monolithic applications into microservices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, MQ, streaming, or high-volume transaction processing.
• Experience using observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, or GCP Cloud Operations.
• Payments or financial services…