WM · 19 hours ago
Senior Manager, Application Development
Windsor, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$136K/yr - $206K/yr
8+ years expWM is seeking a people-first Senior Manager of Application Development to lead a large team of architects, developers, designers, and support specialists. This role will oversee the full lifecycle of enterprise applications, ensuring stability, performance, and scalability while collaborating with business stakeholders and IT teams to deliver high-impact projects and enhancements.
EnergyEnvironmental EngineeringRecyclingSustainabilityWaste Management
Responsibilities
Application Ownership: Oversee the full lifecycle of enterprise applications - from design and development to integration, deployment, and support handover - ensuring stability, performance, and scalability
Technical Leadership: Provides expert technical and functional leadership across .NET, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), guiding architectural decisions and solution design. Define and evolve the future-state application architecture, ensuring scalability, modernization, integration maturity, and alignment with enterprise standards. Partner with WM Corporate infrastructure teams to coordinate system maintenance, security, and environment readiness
Project & Resource Management: Lead planning and execution of development initiatives, including design proposals, sizing, and business value alignment. Assigns and reviews work, allocates appropriate resources to ensure projects are completed within committed time and budget, and are integrated with other software applications. Partner closely with the PMO to manage capacity plans, track actuals vs. forecast, and optimize workforce utilization across onshore and offshore teams
Budget Oversight: Prepares and/or provides budget input for ongoing and future expenditures, monitors budget performance, provides forecasts, and manages vendor performance to deliver cost-effective results. Monitors departmental performance against budget
Future-State Architecture & Roadmap: Establishes strategic plans and objectives. Build and maintain a multi-year technology modernization roadmap that addresses capability gaps, technical debt, cloud strategy, resilience, data integration, and enterprise alignment. Prioritize architectural initiatives based on business value, feasibility, ROI, and alignment with WM Digital's long-term strategy. Collaborate with Product, PMO, and business leaders to ensure roadmap visibility and cross-functional adoption
Stakeholder Alignment & Engagement: Act as a strategic business partner by understanding organizational objectives, building strong relationships with stakeholders, and translating needs into scalable, high-performing technology solutions through clear communication and proactive engagement
Issue Management & De-escalation: Serve as the escalation point for high-impact issues and cross-platform failures. Ensure that partner teams (internal and external) adhere to SLAs, communicate promptly, deliver RCA documentation, and participate in recurring performance reviews. Use incident trend analysis and release-related retrospectives to improve stability and prevent recurring issues
Engineering, Delivery & Release Excellence: Oversee DevOps activities - including environment setup, tooling, code libraries, branching strategy, and deployment pipelines - while championing Agile practices to improve delivery speed, quality, and team performance. Lead and mature the enterprise release management framework by defining release calendars, readiness criteria, governance checkpoints, deployment schedules, and communication standards. Partner with PMO, QA, business teams, DevOps, and offshore partners to ensure predictable, high-quality releases and continuously enhance automation, deployment repeatability, environment stability, and overall application availability
Governance, SOX & Compliance: Manage audit requests, SOX compliance, change control processes, security reviews, and user access across all applications
Vendor Management: Oversee development partners, ensure adherence to contractual commitments, and enforce performance via governance, reviews, and accountability measures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree
High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant experience
8 years or more years of previous experience (in addition to the education requirement)
Preferred
Leading hybrid teams onshore/offshore/remote
ITIL
Certified Software Test Engineer
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Short Term Disability
Stock Purchase Plan
Company match on 401K
Paid Vacation
Holidays
Personal Days
Company
WM is North America's leading provider of integrated environmental solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$9.95B2024-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $5.2B
2024-06-24Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-07-27Post Ipo Debt· $2B
Leadership Team
James C. Fish
Chief Executive Officer
John Morris
President and Chief Operating Officer
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