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Farm Credit Services of America

<div><p>AgCountry Farm Credit Services (AgCountry), Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives that operate under shared management across eight states. While each association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, they collaborate by pooling resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services.<br>
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Our associations are united by a common mission and commitment to serving rural America and supporting each other, which drives the success of the farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness we serve. We take pride in being a great place to work, and this enthusiasm is reflected in the relationships our team members foster with one another and with our customers.</p><p></p><div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Job Summary</b></h2></div><div><ul><li><b>Incumbent must work a percentage of time each week in the Omaha, NE office.</b></li></ul><p></p><p><br>
We are looking for a VP Applications Development to join our Customer Data Connections team in Business Technology. We are looking for a leader who will directly lead a cross functional development team with 7-10 teammates. The team will be made up of a mix of business analysts, lead developers, and developers. Leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework this role will lead the delivery of innovative technology solutions in partnership with product management, architecture, and other technology and business teammates. This leader will build a high performing team, mentoring teammates and collaborating with peers to create engaging developer experiences and best-in-class solutions that enable customer and teammate success.</p></div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Essential Duties &amp; Responsibilities</b></h2></div><div><p>
Partner with business owners and technology architecture to deliver solutions for technology and business needs</p><ul><li>
Create technology evolution without impacting business priorities</li><li>
Create adoption roadmaps and plans that enable teams to understand technology landscape and evolution</li><li>
Champion technology enablement through the creation and facilitation of informal and formal technology education initiatives</li><li>
Serves as a technical product manager when necessary, providing the team direction on features and requirements to meet the needs of the technology initiative</li></ul><p>
Responsible for leading the delivery of assigned projects though:</p><ul><li>
Lead, facilitate, and communicate iterative team actives for understanding project/product vision and milestones, establishing and leading team retrospection and learning, and product / project development through platform configuration or custom software development.</li><li>
Ensuring work aligns to established scope or desired outcomes. Collaborate and coordinate with other business and technology leaders and architecture roles to ensure work is sequenced and scoped appropriately for desired outcomes</li><li>
Resolving project impediments and team issues in collaboration with leadership and other technology and business teams</li><li>
Advising in the prioritization of features as needed and facilitating release planning</li><li>
Set and track metrics to measure team performance. Reporting project updates and metrics at established intervals.</li></ul><p>
Serve as a technical champion within Information Technology by:</p><ul><li>
Guiding teams on pragmatic practices and adoption of agreed upon architecture decisions in collaboration with solutions and platform architecture guidance.</li><li>
Remain up to date on current initiatives, technical strategies and product roadmaps to provide appropriate direction and insight into work across the organization</li><li>
Raising technical impediments to leadership and architecture for prioritization</li><li>
Facilitating technical feature estimation, return-on-investment calculations, and total cost of ownership estimates and tracking.</li></ul><p>
Effective resource planning and product/project reporting through:</p><ul><li>
Creating resource plans based on scope of projects and investment goals</li><li>
Identify, predict, plan, and coordinate specialized role involvement when appropriate</li><li>
Participate in the development of IT initiatives and improvement activities</li></ul></div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Education Requirements</b></h2></div><div><ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.</li></ul></div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Years of Experience</b></h2></div><div><div><ul><li><p>
5+ years&rsquo; relevant experience in agile/lean project management</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>
10+ years&rsquo; relevant experience in delivering technology solutions</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>
Knowledge of customer service philosophies and the role of information management; computer hardware, software, languages, environments and related matters. Detailed knowledge of Internet/Intranet and client-server products and related terminology.</p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><p></p><p><b><br>
Why Us:</b></p><div>
For qualifying positions, we provide a competitive benefits package designed to support health and well-being, financial security, and work-life balance:</div><ul><li><b>
Health Benefits</b>: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance</li><li><b>
Retirement Plans</b>: 401(k)</li><li><b>
Paid Time Off</b>: Vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and parental leave</li><li><b>
Additional Benefits</b>: Life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), wellness programs, tuition assistance, and short-term incentive pay</li></ul><div>
For a comprehensive overview of our total reward offerings, <b>click </b><b>here</b><b>.</b></div><div></div><p><b><br>
About</b> <b>Us:</b></p><p>
AgCountry has 44 offices, is based in Fargo, North Dakota and serves portions of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. FCSAmerica is based in Omaha, NE and has 42 local offices serving rural communities and agriculture in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Frontier Farm Credit has six offices serving eastern Kansas. Together, we support nearly 82,000 producers and agribusinesses, meeting the needs of today&rsquo;s agricultural industry with our combined 2600+ employees providing lending, risk management, technology, commodity marketing, and customer and employee education.<br>
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AgCountry Farm Credit Services, ACA, Farm Credit Services of America, ACA, and Frontier Farm Credit, ACA are Equal Employment Opportunity employers, and they comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.</p></div>

VP Applications Development-Customer Data Connections

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VP Applications Development-Customer Data Connections