APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Do you have a passion for driving and supporting strategic technology initiatives? Can you serve as the lead liaison between business departments and IT to ensure the delivery of products and services? If so, this Application Development Manager opportunity could be a great fit for you!
Farm Bureau Financial Services is looking for an Application Development Manager who will be responsible for implementing high risk, highly complex business projects. You will participate in regular meetings to keep both the business area and IT staff informed of productivity objectives, goals, and concerns. You will be tasked with working in a continually changing business and technical environment and must stay current on business and technology trends.
Who We Are: With Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We’re proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members.

• Serve as the key liaison between IT and the business area to interpret and analyze complex business problems.
• Keep both the business area and IT staff informed of productivity objectives, goals, and concerns.
• Partner with senior IT staff to design and ensure compliance with underlying principles, assumptions, and strategies, ensure the integrity of applications, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Implement high risk, highly complex business applications. Formulate/define business scope, objectives, requirements, and deliverables based on system development methodologies.
• Partner with software / hardware vendors to assist in recognizing possible business solutions.
• Identify business systems problems, determine level of urgency, work with technical team and communicate to the business area regarding issues/status/resolution.
• Oversee all staff development aspects including the selection, training/development, disciplining/performance review, salary administration, referring employee complaints, controlling workflow, motivation of employees, and assigned budget activities to ensure that the integrity of all system applications is always maintained.
• Keep abreast of current technologies and assist the business with prioritization of maintenance and projects ensuring that the initiative with the greatest benefit/risk will be worked on first.
• Participate in special projects by taking the lead in project proposal, justification, design, development, and testing and delivery phases.