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Middle-tier Engineering Technology Manager The Middle-tier Engineering Technology Manager provides thought leadership to deliver creative and efficient technical solutions. This role leads the development of strategic plans for products and/or initiatives. This role is also responsible for leading their resources to develop high level delivery plans based on a set of objectives (scope, delivery and technical approaches, risk, assumptions, staffing plans, other cost, and ongoing operational plans and cost). The Technology Manager also oversees client, customer, and vendor relations to ensure that service expectations are met or exceeded. Coaches and mentors employees. Provide leadership, guidance and mentorship to the middleware engineering team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Lead the development of middleware solutions using industry standard technologies such as IBM WebSphere, Red Hat JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, or similar platforms. Manage integration projects involving middleware components, ensuring seamless connectivity between diverse systems and applications. Identify and implement performance optimization strategies to enhance the efficiency and reliability of middleware infrastructure. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize middleware performance, scalability, and reliability, keeping abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends. Additional responsibilities involve overseeing end-of-life software, licensing, and other regulatory requirements adhering our compliance framework. With an AWS certification is a plus. Position Responsibilities: Strategy * Partner with corporate functional leaders to create and execute a technology strategy that will enhance overall business capabilities. * Stay abreast of technology industry trends and best practices. * Continuously transform the organization to increase efficiencies and reduce overall expense. * Partner with innovation team to test and learn emerging technology and its viable applicability to enhance corporate business capabilities. Delivery Planning and Execution * Create, prioritize, plan and execute portfolio/product roadmaps or initiatives through collaboration with Technology and appropriate business partners. * Reduce time to market by utilizing Agile methodologies and/or applying appropriate methodologies, e.g. dev/sec/ops. * Surface issues and risks; escalate for resolution. * Provides insights on risks based on broad experience. * Ensure employees deliver new technology solutions and capabilities in accordance with the roadmap and ensure that they meet established objectives and expectations of business partners and/or colleagues. Technology/Operational/Risk Control * Cultivate good system management disciplines including clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, documented phase processes and checkpoint and detailed planning for system deployment. * Define and report metrics based on overall business objectives. * Ensures compliance and control activities support technology and enterprise business objectives and are aligned with executive risk tolerances and expectations. * Ensures processes and controls within assigned area to enhance performance, security, reliability and availability of systems. * Drive a continuous improvement and compliant culture through documented policies, procedures and architecture. Leadership * Manage and develop team cultivating a spirit of one team with shared goals and objectives. Select, motivate and retain high performing talent. * Provide on-going feedback to maximize overall performance. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled