Associate Director, Systems Development

Closing date September 06, 2024
Associate Director, Systems Development
**JOB SUMMARY**:
The Associate Director, Systems Development is responsible for planning, design, development, implementation and support of sustainable and secure information systems and technology services for RNAO. The incumbent demonstrates leadership in the successful selection, deployment, support and evolution of web-based systems and services. They are responsible for defining, providing, refining, improving, and modifying the services provided in response to changes in business processes, technology, environment and priorities related to RNAO’s vison and values. The Associate Director, Systems Development develops and maintains key relationships with internal and external stakeholders and business partners.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Systems Analysis, Design, Development, Integration and Support
- Recommend and implement industry standard technology stacks, frameworks, platforms.
- Create, update, and establish architectures, frameworks, and solutions considering long-term scalability, maintainability and sustainability.
- Continually assess current systems to find gaps and suggest prudent technical changes.
- Generate prototypes and transitional architectures as starting points for junior developers.
- Continuously research emerging technologies and industry practices for improvement of the enterprise architecture.
- Develop procedures and guidelines for vertical and horizontal enterprise system integration.
- Evaluate project constraints to find alternatives and perform process re-engineering if required.
- Plan and design strategic technical architectures including database architectures and system logic incorporating industry standard security approaches.
- Design, develop, test, implement, support, and maintain web-based enterprise business systems executing full systems development lifecycle (SDLC) activities.
- Create and maintain system documentation.
- Provide systems support in terms of problem analysis and solution development.
- Provide technical guidance and support for development activities.
- Coordinate technical components within various projects.
- Conduct database administration including installation, tuning, performance monitoring, and upgrading as needed in collaboration with the Systems Administrators.

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Management
- Conduct project planning, progress tracking and communication.
- Participate in business analysis at the department and/or RNAO level in collaboration with the Business Analyst or independently as needed.
- Assign tasks and supervise work of technical and functional staff dedicated to the project.
- Provide mentoring support for staff (technically as well as functional knowledge specific to the assignment).
- Adhere to industry best practices for documentation management.
- Control the development process and make sure that standard operating policies and procedures (SOPP) are followed and implemented.
- Provide supervision and clear guidance to development team members in terms of modern software development technologies and practices.
- Practice detailed code and architecture review of team members by adopting industry practices.
- Motivate the team to establish a positive culture to create software relying on proven principles.
- Coach and train team members to align documentation of software development projects to UML standard.
- Manage time effectively when dealing with multiple projects and activities.

Supervision & Coaching
- Lead recruitment of the systems development team and manage on-boarding, orientation, and training.
- Promote growth in performance through ongoing performance management and reviews.
- Provide guidance and direction to the systems development team in enterprise architecture, latest systems development frameworks and architectures, cutting-edge technologies and trends, industry cyber security standards, high level technology consulting, training, and documentation.
- Optimize individual productivity and ensure project timelines are met at the expected quality.
- Plan and initiate learning opportunities for team members to promote knowledge and skills development.
- Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Inform the Director, IM&T of work progress and raise any issues that require escalation/intervention.
- Collaborate and communicate with other team managers in IM&T and RNAO wide to ensure that all RNAO systems development needs are met.

Leadership
- Provide leadership in the evolution of enterprise systems, development/selection of technologies, frameworks and architectures, and project management strategies and methodologies.
- Plan and facilitate systems development sprint/scrum meetings with team members and stakeholders.
- Take reasonability for technical leadership in development projects. Give clear and viable directions for developers in terms of technology and development aspects.
- Create and continuously refi