IT Department Manager - Partner Integration

• IT Department Manager - Partner Integrations - plays a critical leadership role in shaping and executing client’s partner integration strategy.
• This position is responsible for designing, enhancing, and governing centralized integration frameworks for connected vehicle, fuel, and other strategic data providers, while enabling scalable and efficient onboarding of future partners.
• In addition to partner integrations, this role will oversee the alignment of standards and best practices for other key capabilities, including QA Automation, UX Design, and Front-end Development for internal applications.
• The Department Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of foundational integration solutions, including defining architecture, establishing aligned standards, producing comprehensive documentation, and overseeing development and implementation.
• This role also plays a key part in shaping and driving client’s UI development strategy, partnering with peer leaders across client to ensure alignment, consistency, and scalability.
• Candidates will collaborate and provide thought leadership with leaders across Product, Architecture, Business, and Solution teams to advance and refine client’s multi-year technology strategy.
• Candidates will align with these leaders on priorities and investment across new capabilities, optimizations, and operational support based on industry and company readiness.
• Candidates will be responsible for financial, operational, and security health monthly metrics around that investment.
• The Department Manager of Partner Integrations will hire, lead, and mentor world-class development teams with the ability to not only keep pace with, but also pioneer, this constantly evolving space.
• Candidates will be responsible for talent development of engineers and leaders, developing a strong partnership with Product, as well as engineering, financial management, and health (operational/security) of Partner Integrations.
• In this role candidates will be responsible for:
  
  Expert Collaboration and Influence – Collaborate with and influence leadership to directly impact company strategy and direction. Develop deep partnerships with architecture, product, and other engineering teams to deliver on major cross-functional initiatives. Communicate effectively to all levels of the organization, including executives.
• Long-range Product Leadership – Execute a comprehensive API strategy aligned with the organization’s goals while building and managing an amazing team of high-performing individuals.
• Lead the organization’s efforts to establish a roadmap of API capabilities to power the next round of API innovation for client. Capabilities must be directionally aligned with the industry’s best practices and company priorities while also being designed for SLA satisfaction and optimized for cost. Establish methods and processes for managing API products.
• Building Meaningful Relationships – Build and establish meaningful relationships across various stakeholders in IT (including Architecture and Security), Data & Analytics, Product and the Business.
• Demonstrate a combination of excellent communication skills, strong emotional intelligence, and a genuine interest in others.
• Build a network of people both inside and outside the organization to gain new perspectives and insights around data needs.
• Leading and Inspiring People – Build and cultivate a culture of innovation, transparency, alignment, standardization, professional development and accountability to deliver high value API capabilities and support the company’s entrepreneurial and agile spirit.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

Ability to apply problem solving, critical thinking and challenging the status quo to simplify and standardize practices and improve quality across the department.

• High degree of executive presence with ability to influence and collaborate throughout all levels of the organization.
• Ability to attract and develop employees capable of achieving the goals and objectives of the company; past success identifying and targeting talent for new opportunities for further individual and organizational development.
• Superb relationship management skills.

Required…