Director, Cloud Software Development

Job Details

The Director of Cloud Software Development is responsible for leading and managing the software development life cycle, underlying data strategy, and the adoption of cloud architecture, cloud data services, and composable web stack for the organization. The role provides expert technical leadership through the design, development, and maintenance of solutions to support the needs of association staff, members, and volunteers. The Director will drive the implementation of agile delivery techniques to foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centricity.

Key responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues, developing and ensuring compliance with standards for programming, data stewardship, and documentation, and providing leadership and coaching to the Software Development Team (SDT).

The Director will drive the implementation of agile delivery techniques to foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centricity. Key responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues, developing and ensuring compliance with standards for programming, data stewardship, and documentation, and providing leadership and coaching to the Software Development Team (SDT).

• Lead the team in adopting and leveraging cloud architecture and cloud data services to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance of software solutions.
• Drive the implementation of a composable web stack to enable faster development, improved maintainability, and enhanced user experience.
• Champion agile delivery techniques within the team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centricity.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and best practices in cloud computing, data management, and web development to keep the team at the forefront of innovation.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in production systems.
• Ensure timely and correct deployment and configuration of new solutions while minimizing impact to ongoing association operations; monitor production systems to ensure availability and performance.
• Provide coaching to Software Development Team and technical guidance for contracted application and data orchestration development.
• Collaboratively plan and execute long-term software development and data orchestration strategy, overseeing execution of multiple initiatives with responsibility for ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

To accomplish responsibilities listed above, the incumbent has contact with:

• All levels of National Office staff.
• Software and information technology services vendors; and external users of similar technologies.
• Contacts are for the purpose of diagnosis and resolution of technical problems, project planning, coordinating software installations, data infrastructure, and evaluating software and services.

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) sets forth scope of activity in assigned areas and assigns special projects with broad objectives and deadlines. The incumbent reviews project requests and advises the CIO on estimated time and staff requirements, along with exceptional project characteristics that may affect the CIO’s decision regarding priorities, assignments of personnel, changes in planned resource allocation, or formation of special purpose teams.

The incumbent is the primary decision maker in selecting the appropriate technical architecture to be used for specific projects. This individual advises the ISD on issues that have potential policy and standards impact and ensures the correct implementation of technical standards by the team. Completed work is reviewed for its effectiveness in meeting user requirements, accuracy of estimated time frames and projected problem areas and resolution, and achievement of productive and harmonious relationships in coordinating the projects with technical staff, users and management.

Knowledge And Skills Typically Acquired Through

• Ten or more years of related experience in software development system…