Sr Mgr DT Sys Design & Dev Washington

Overview

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful  living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provides subject matter expertise (SME), while leading across diverse teams to meet or exceed business outcomes.
• Responsible for aligning information technology solutions with the business strategy. Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following:
• Works with business partners to understand business problems and desired outcomes.
• Provides input to business technology planning.
• Implements solutions consistent with business outcomes.
• Leads the planning, design, solutioning and implementation of IT initiatives to support business strategy – iteratively, measuring value and outcomes; learning and adjusting based on continuous feedback.
• Delivers high-quality solutions at optimal cost to customers. Measures solution performance and implements improvements as needed.
• Participates in the development of budgets. Tracks and takes appropriate steps to manage and balance the budget.
• Participates and provides input to the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and measures performance thereof.
• Provides advice and counsel to the vendor relationship decision-making and contract development processes.
• Reviews service provider performance. Identifies and confirms performance challenges and elevates for resolution.
• Meets regularly with team in order to determine how best to solve for business outcomes. Helps to remove/reduce obstacles impeding progress. Provides career leadership advice, guidance, encouragement and feedback. Encourages and enables collaboration. Focus on the benefits of the whole vs. optimization of the few.
• Collaborates with business and team members to establish measureable individual and team objectives that are aligned with business and organizational goals. Documents and presents performance assessments. Recognizes and rewards associates commensurate with performance. Implements organizational practices for staffing, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), diversity, performance management, development, reward, recognition and retention.
• Identifies the roles, skills and competencies needed to meet short-term and long-term business outcomes. Participates in IT workforce deployment activities.

• Bachelor’s Degree in related technical/business areas.
• Relevant experience managing development solutions and projects.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development.
• 5+ years of proven track record of progressively providing technical and project leadership to deliver enterprise scale solutions.
• Strong Agile delivery experience, SAFe experience desired.
• Proven experience with Java, APIs, Dev Ops and lean development practices.
• Strong expertise in developing and deploying applications in Cloud based Platforms such as AWS, Azure, and other Cloud platforms.
• Requires experience in managing teams and building relationships with people at a variety of levels.
• Requires demonstrated ability to launch and deliver solutions, coordinating with multiple teams.
• Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, work well with others in an integrated team environment, and be self-motivated.
• Highly motivated, organized, and able to support multiple high paced initiatives.
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