Product Lead Engineer - App Programming

Johnson & Johnson company, is recruiting for a Lead Application Programming Manager to be located in Raritan, N.J!

The ERP Manager for Application Programming is accountable for the BUILD of Application Development solutions for Supply Chain and Corporate across various ERP platforms in North America and responsible Globally or Regionally for Application Programming. This position has responsible for designing individual development plans for chapter members, execute member allocation between squads, the right skills at the right time to HPT teams, monitor and optimize performance of chapter services and act as a point of escalation for resource issues, chapter member performance issues. The IT Manager will also partner with other regional development managers, functional managers, technical architects, and consultants to assess new project initiatives, provide cost estimates & design and apply procedures and standards according to organizational alignment and the product group’s demand, select the right mix of resources for project assignment (ramp up/down), establish procedures and governance, follow best practices in application development and finally manage execution within the Agile execution framework.  This role will also have management leading Enterprise Application programming, strong collaboration with business teams to proactively ensure programming strategy and framework established globally.

This role reports to the IT Dir ERP Technical Competency Leader and this individual will also ensure that application development methodologies, processes are followed, and standards are adhered to.

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities:

Service Execution

• Plan projects for development execution under Agile Framework.
• Involved in designing scalable, reliable & compliant solutions
• Work scheduling and prioritizing, and offshore coordination. 
• Act as a point of contact to coordinate dependencies with other teams.
• Ensure Compliance & Security standards are adhered to
• Strong conceptual, analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting and resolution skills
• Ability to monitor and manage the progress of tasks.
• Good Decision-making skills

Interview and select resources (ramp up) as well as manage capacity according to the project demand (ramp down)

Collaboration & Subject Matter Expertise

• Work across multiple Scrum Teams, Architecture and TS groups to define and deliver innovative development solutions
• Provide direction to other developers & mentor junior developers/leads
• Enforce adherence to development, security & compliance standards
• Accountable for code quality & technical documentation
• Accountable for communication across various scrum teams & groups
• Single point of contact for Functional teams, vendor resources, and enterprise platform owners

Innovation/Automation

• Build an environment for developing innovative solutions with a strong emphasis on automating work where possible 

Identify repetitive steps to possibly partner with other teams to build automations

Other Duties:

• • The Chapter Lead Application Programming Manager should be:
  • Self-motivated, Flexible & have an openness to learn new things, with a strong focus on customer needs.
  • Work with limited supervision and exhibit a strong sense of urgency.
  • Able to support multiple projects concurrently  
  • Experienced working in a Global Build and Support Structure.
  • Willing to roll up his/her sleeves, work and learn beyond his/her comfort zone, encourage the squad to do the same
  • Understands the agile ways of working, has digital and technical skills and Critical thinker, able to find new solutions
  • Has a product mindset that embraces innovation and experiment