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Job Title: Development Manager
Job Location: NJ: Rutherford
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-09-05

Company Name: Comrise
Contact: Recruiter
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Fax: email only please

Description: Development Manager

Job ID: 18248 # Positions: 1 Location: US-NJ-Rutherford Experience (Years): 5 Posted Date: 07-01-08 Recruiter: Aditi Jaitly

Apply for this job: Your application choices are: * Apply for this jobonline * Send your resume as an attachment viae-mail * Refer someone you know More information about this job: Overview: Development Manager Clifton NJ Area Full Time Position Green Card/US Citizen only

Responsibilities: Responsible for the development and production support of technology products and systems used to run the business of the client's area. The products/systems include custom internet-based web applications, local windows-based applications, reporting systems, and related web services and data interfaces. The user base comprises several thousand users...external users as well as internal staff/management. This person will: • Manage multiple development teams consisting of full time employees, on site consultants and off shore development resources. • Participate in work prioritization meetings with business team and clients • Provide status on change requests worked upon and system defects • Work with product management to define the priority of changes requests and projects • Work with product management to elaborate and clarify requirements on the system changes • Work with development team (onshore and offshore) to determine various effort estimates (optimistic, pessimistic, most likely) etc at various level of requirements (SOW, High level/detailed requirements) • Validate and ensure that effort estimate provided by team members are as accurate as possible • Develop and maintain resource skills matrix • Develop and maintain resource allocation to projects and core maintenance • Communicate resource requirements to offshore team • Develop/refine and communicate effort estimate work sheets, project schedules, and project plans with assumptions/risks/mitigations with stakeholders • Manage/Coordinate Test, UAT and Production releases • Provide weekly/monthly status updates to senior IT management • Process improvement • Identify SDM process gaps, lead process improvement efforts, monitor and ensure adherence to process • Participate and lead Audit preparation, IT single point of contact • Troubleshoot system issues and lead debugging and issue resolution efforts • Communicate release schedules • Help troubleshoot system related issues with Tech Ops team members • Work with Tech Ops to procure S/W, H/W for projects and production support needs • Manage releases, monitor and validate application post releases • Identify performance areas to increase team efficiency (facilitate common libraries, knowledge sharing etc) • Review use cases, technology design, data model documents • Provide directions and guidance on technical architecture for the development team • Work with Tech Ops to setup and maintain development and production environments

Qualifications: • 5+ years of application development and management experience • 3+ years managing development teams - onshore and offshore • Hands on experience developing applications using C#, ASP.Net, VB, SQL Server, MS Access, HTML, XML • Experience with build and release management including source control, automated build and integrated unit testing tools. • Ability to troubleshoot issues and lead debugging and issue resolution efforts • Ability to fully grasp complex system architectures, including multiple inter-related databases and intricate business rule logic • Manage end-to-end development process and resources • Have a proven track record in delivering solutions on time and within estimates • Analyze and estimate based on high level requirements and provide technology direction to development team members • Ability to identify process gaps and drive process improvements Interact with senior IT, business and product management, recommend, plan and implement technology solutions • Must work independently and with minimal supervision • Ability to coach and mentor direct reports and peers • Excellent communication skills for interaction with project teams, business owners, senior management and clients • Bachelor's degree in information technology or computer science or equivalent experience

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