Position                      : Application Development Manager

Reports to                  : Practice Director

 

Responsibilities:

The ADM is responsible for understanding the customer's environment, its technical requirements and fit to Microsoft technologies. The ADM serves as the customer's persistent Microsoft point of contact throughout the customer's product development lifecycle. The role is heavily reliant on the ADM possessing excellent customer service skills. The ADM is required to assist the team with quick and efficient resolution of customer's reactive support needs. The ADM will deliver prescriptive consulting guidance in the form of workshops, reviews, prototypes, white papers, and conclusive test results while setting realistic expectations regarding the capabilities and delivery timeframes of Microsoft technologies. It is vital that the ADM work constantly on keeping up-to-date on new Microsoft technologies relevant to the customer's particular needs and developing relationships with key Microsoft product group resources. The ADM is expected to maintain a collaborative role with customers. The ADM is expected to provide consulting assistance to peers as project workloads allows. The ADM maintains relationships with Microsoft product managers providing feedback on product requirements and drive Microsoft product feature and functionality requests on behalf of Premier clients.

Contacts:

This position will have regular contact with:

·         Other Application Development Managers

·         Technical Account Managers for establishing support and maintaining persistent account contact point.

·         Product Support Engineers

·         MCS Consultants.

·         Microsoft Product Groups - Program and product management, some direct contact with developers to drive feature set issues and resolve software bugs in early-beta releases.

 

This position has frequent contact with all levels of Microsoft managers and employees and frequent contact with vendors and customers.

 

Qualifications:

Expertise in .Net 2.0 & 3.5 (C#, AJAX), IIS (6/7/7.5), as well as SQL 2K5/8 experience.  8+ years of high-end software development experience building business transaction systems.  Development skills with VB, C/C++, Asp.net, vb.net, C#, SSIS, SSRS, ActiveX, COM/DCOM, and XML is desired. Strong business background in large scale enterprise solutions and/or experience with systems technology consulting firm desired.  Database application and transaction system design. Strong business background in large scale enterprise solutions and/or experience with systems technology consulting firm desired.