Application Manager Job Description
Application manager
provides content managers the ability to publish content to our consumers and the ability to market, editorialize and create user-centric experiences within our suite of applications.
Application Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Recommends the acquisition and manages the implementation and support of associated security devices enterprise wide including hardware, operating software and infrastructural systems such as LTM, GTM and CDN
Ensures strategies, processes and execution plans are in place for the capacity planning of all security devices
Maintain, develop and enforce deployment processes and practices
Responsible for Branching and Merging of code in TFS and/or SVN for various products
Manage source code repositories in TFS, inclusive of user management and source code management
Maintain and enforce release processes including but not limited to Release Builds, Deployment Scripts
Define, manage, maintain and implement improved build processes and branching strategies
Automate/Script code deployments for a number of products/services
Produce deployment request documents and build diff reports
Maintain, configure and troubleshoot configurations in all Test, SQA, STAGE, Production, Demo and Training environments
Application Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Application Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, PMP, ITSM, CISSP, LSA, CSSA, CEH, CISM, MA, GSSP
Education for Application Manager
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Employers hiring for the application manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Collage and University Degree in Computer Science, Education, Management, Military, Engineering, Business, Technical, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business/Administration
Skills for Application Manager
Desired skills for application manager include:
Ability to create an effective IT environment for business operations
Ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions
Ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for the development and support of applications
Ability to utilize these in order to deliver new
Activities and standards
Deliverables
Enhanced applications
Formal application delivery methodologies
Major tasks
Organization's IT purposes
Desired experience for application manager includes:
Skilled in recruiting, motivating, retaining and organizing resources, establishing priorities
Strong .Net or Java technologies
Experience of managing production support in a complex environment, preferably within financial services sector
An understanding of client/server and middleware environments
Able to appreciate and share best practices throughout the team
Good communication both written and verbal with an ability to communicate at all levels up to senior management
Application Manager Examples
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Application Manager Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of application manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for application manager
- Provide other Release Management duties as assigned
- Communicate back to stakeholders status, issues, risks
- Manages a small staff of employees, employee relations, performance, and reviews
- Develop and implement new projects, policies and procedures for the department(s)
- Demonstrated familiarity and knowledge of branch banking infrastructure, systems and applications
- Escalation owner for all Technical Operations teams
- Cost, budget and quote management
- Maintenance of technical roadmaps
- Drive innovation across the technical landscape
- Ownership of 3rd party relationships
Qualifications for application manager
- Experience managing a team of 3-5 applications security engineers
- Authentication infrastructure SAML and OAUTH SSO Protocols XML and JavaScript Internet security protocols and technologies
- Experience identifying security issues such as SQLi, XSS, CSRF, and business logic flaws
- Solutions architecture in support of application framework
- 5+ years experience building multi-tiered web applications using ASP, ASP.Net, or Java
- Azure or other cloud experience strongly desired
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of application manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for application manager
- Contract Management responsibilities
- Technical understanding of Database & Middleware technologies
- Understanding of ‘Batch, Interface, Monitoring & Alerting’ preferably using SAPCPS
- Ensure that technical best practices are followed during systems design, build and support
- Manage the release and change process within the Technical Services arena
- Take ownership of all technical audit actions
- Represent Technical Operations at the Application Support management team
- Deputise for the Head of Application Support
- Provide support for other Local Authority accounts where required
- Manage day to day activities of the business applications development staff
Qualifications for application manager
- Experience with ALM product suite
- Experience with DevOps and continuous integration and release management
- You have a strong aptitude for and experience in developing commercial grade, systems level software
- Experience in Agile software development methodology and practice
- Passionate about building technical excellence and cohesive team
- Familiarity with Software and Quality Engineering for enterprise software, storage, networking, virtualization or security products
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Our growing company is hiring for an application manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for application manager
- Lead all functionality related to the application module (internal roadmap external client related)
- Managing development projects, development teams and application support functions
- Overseeing multiple application programming and analysis projects which include development, installation and maintenance of application programs
- Monitoring and maintaining adherence and compliance to quality standards on an ongoing basis
- Analyzing applications to ensure that all systems that are developed, meet business needs and specifications
- You will be expected to be on call in support of your team
- Serves as Delivery Lead for external upgrades and changes that impact the existing systems
- Ensures and manages compliance with SOX requirements (Security, Change Control, Documentation)
- Analyse end user requests, classify requests to be fixed by Level 2 IT support and those requiring Level 3 (3rd party organization) IT support intervention
- Provide on-going guidance, mentoring, and provide feedback and motivation to staff and project teams to ensure competent performance while adhering to department and the Client’s policies and procedures
Qualifications for application manager
- Programming experience/ understanding – perl, html, PLSQL
- Minimum 7 years ofexperience in leading a team of 10 or more in support of software application and ERP solutions in a large enterprise
- Minimum of 7 years of experience leading/managing a team of at least 10 or more, supporting Enterprise Resource Planning applications
- 3 years experienced with programming and system architecture
- Knowledge base in information management (BI), Systems (Windows Server, Unix AIX) and Net
- Demonstrated ability to support the needs of the project team and internal stakeholders, while holding team members accountable for completion
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of application manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for application manager
- Leading the development and refinement of project requirements, estimates, plans, schedules and implementations
- Continuously monitor project status via a variety of applicable methods
- Communicate the status of releases and application portfolio health, identify classify and manage potential project and portfolio risk with mitigation strategies and contingency plans, provide continuing direction to the project team, and conduct regular status meetings with key stakeholders to review project activities
- Ability to assess risk and manage contingency plansHas experience participating across multiple project methodologies agile, waterfall, iterative
- Manage, motivate and lead teams to meet objectives
- Ability to link business outcomes to a project's progress, goals, functionality, cost/benefit and recommend appropriate courses of action
- Responsible for ensuring employees within their respective areas are being developed and talent is being prepared for future critical contributor and/or leadership roles
- Maintain, meet the minimum threshold of and evolve Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with respect to system availability
- Establish ongoing communication channel between business / customers and development teams
- Assist business owners in defining project scope, and manage scope changes from business stakeholders
Qualifications for application manager
- Five years of experience designing, analyzing, developing and delivering web, desktop and mobile-based systems
- ETL (e.g., Microsoft SSIS, Informatica, Data Stage)
- Has relevant technical degree/diploma
- Experience working in a regulated environment strongly recommended
- Action oriented with strong focus on customer satisfaction, safety, quality, innovation and continuous improvement
- Good communication skills as provides technical or professional advice to external and/or internal contacts, audiences that may be outside an area of expertise and unfamiliar with subject
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Our growing company is hiring for an application manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for application manager
- Provide after-hours coverage/escalation & offer support on-call rotation
- Ongoing review of bottlenecks for application performance and implement strategic fixes to better the performance
- Implement process for archival of data to improve application performance
- Implement Performance improvements in Database queries to improve application performance
- Upgrade existing hardware for applications or databases to bring them to current standards and also improve performance
- Develop SME knowledge on applications
- Provide opportunities for learning and career growth for team members
- Improve processes to streamline ongoing development, deployments and provide release communication to stake holders
- Provide assistance for project documentation - Requirements, Use Cases and Sequence diagrams for new projects
- Review requirements from business/ customers for improvements / bug fixes and coordinate with development / ownership to implement them
Qualifications for application manager
- Extensive experience of working as a Application Maintenance Manager within an enterprise scale environment
- Ability to lead staff, and maintain a live Application Development / Software Engineering centre
- Ability to interact and Influence senior stakeholder with a FTSE organisation
- Previously worked in a mixed internal / outsourced model., including Service/Contractual reviews
- Hands-on experience translating customer needs into product and system requirements
- Hands-on experience in development and operations of large-scale, high-availability systems, including cloud based and on premise architectures