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Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing.  We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We’re rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences.  Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

The Software Development Director provides the overall direction and oversight of all application development activities including design, development and implementation of applications that support and enable company business objectives. Responsible for collaborating with leaders across Business Technologies to manage resources and deliver solutions with a high level of quality and usability. Leads and manages software development and QA teams by providing guidance, thought leadership and team member development opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Create, develop and maintain a system development lifecycle process for the planning, development, maintenance and sun setting of company systems.
• Participate in long-term technology planning processes. Ensure the application development and deployment strategy aligns and calibrates with the organization's business strategy, and that planned delivery activities are in alignment with long-term technology footprint.
• Responsible for coordinating with staff across the BT organization to ensure successful delivery of project activity; Ensure that the technical and functional results are delivered as agreed upon with the project sponsors.
• Ensure successful completion of all non-project work, including ongoing support and maintenance needs of existing systems, to support SLA s and functional needs of the Company.
• Implement continuous improvements for the team’s processes and quality of delivery including interactions with other members of the solution development chain (ex: Project Management, Quality Assurance, etc.).
• Identify necessary development resources and allocate resources and responsibilities across the application team to meet required results.
• Manage relationships with external service providers. Ensure all activity is delivered in compliance with normal policies, procedures, technology standards, security requirements, etc.
• Responsible for oversight of the quality assurance practice; including defining the strategic direction, best practices, testing tools (defect tracking and test automation), and critical skills.
• Manager assigned staff: provide clear goals and expectations; ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities; coach; manage performance; develop; enforce systems, policies and procedures; assist with recruiting and onboard new employees.
• Assist with achieving financial objectives by participating in the process of forecasting needs; prepare annual budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances, initiate corrective actions.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10-15 years of experience, with a minimum of 10 years direct experience in software development and/or architecture.
• Minimum of 5 years as a technical team leader or manager of people; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in leading and coaching Agile development teams as well as traditional software development life cycle teams .
• Ability to work collaboratively with others, influence change and garner commitment.
• Excellent talent development and management skills.
• Proven ability to drive execution with positive results.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships across Business Technologies and the business units within the company.
• Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven leadership skills around resource planning, delegating, estimating and prioritizing work.
• Ability to effectively schedule and manage projects which use both internal and external personnel.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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