Director Of Web Applications

Description:

We are looking for an experienced, quantitative, business savvy, articulate and creative Director of Web Applications to lead a team of exceptional developers and analysts. Under your leadership, the team will be responsible for building and supporting our external websites using OpenText technology. The web applications support team is responsible for many website implementations at OpenText including our www.opentext.com site.

Our business solution utilizes OpenText’s software to power many of our web technologies including TeamSite/LiveSite, Media Manager, Web Experience Management (WEM), and Content Server. This position involves being part of a dynamic team environment responsible for designing, developing, and supporting software solutions to meet business requirements in the areas of Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Services.

The ideal candidate thrives on partnering with our Marketing business partners to leverage technology to deliver exceptional customer experience, has a consultative mindset, and is an excellent leader. He/she must be a motivating leader that is able to select and focus on high-impact, complex projects. The candidate will have extensive experience delivering complex technical projects, providing excellent application support, driving continuous improvement and leading high-performing technical teams.

YOU ARE GREAT AT:

• Working with business partners to understand technology needs, develop a technical roadmap and set priorities for the team
• Team leadership: establishing clear goals and priorities for the team, coaching and mentoring team members for high performance
• Developing and delivering workstream updates to business stakeholders including executive leadership
• Software lifecycle management: from requirements through design, build, test and deployment. Documenting the solution and supporting business team with training and other enablement activities
• Acquisition integration activities, including migration from legacy applications to standard OT tools
• Fostering a culture of high-performance, with team members located across the globe
• Developing career paths for your team
• Successfully managing financial plans and budgets

What it takes:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, finance or a related area of study or significant experience in a similar role.
• Experience in application development and/or systems administration
• 8+ years’ experience managing technical teams
• Business analysis, project management, and software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile methodologies

• Experience with web development and web team leadership
• Ability to work cross-functionally with IT infrastructure and database administrator teams on both project implementations and application support
• Experience with on-prem to Cloud migrations and establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence preferred