Applications Development Director jobs in Kansas City, MO

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Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address critical challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, productivity, global urbanization and energy. With approximately 129,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, Honeywell has an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything they make and do.  Honeywell has been named a Top 100 Global Innovator for seven years in a row, recognizing the company’s global reach of portfolio and invention influence.

In Kansas City, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) manages and operates the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus. This state-of-the-art engineering, manufacturing and sourcing facility produces a wide array of intricate components to deliver trusted national security products and government services primarily for the NNSA. Honeywell FM&T’s culture of integrity, commitment and continuous improvement enables them to deliver responsive, collaborative and innovative management and technology services and products that translate into cutting edge solutions to complex national security issues.

***This position will be located in Kansas City, MO***

Summary of Duties:

• Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the CI/CD pipelines to mitigate obstacles for deploying solutions in a secure and timely manner
• Resolves highly complex computer security issues by designing, developing, and implementing innovative technical solutions
• Proactively analyzes existing applications to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements 
• Oversees or leads the evaluation and selection process for application packages
• Defines development guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development/integration including developing custom integration solutions with major enhancements, interfaces, functions, and features
• Demonstrates project management skills and serves as a technical lead on IT projects
• Provides technical guidance or business process expertise, technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members both inside and outside their areas of responsibility while looking for ways to apply the latest technologies for improvements to software and organizational effectiveness
• Participates in planning sessions with customers to improve business processes and prioritize investments
• Works closely with Technical Review Board and Enterprise Architects to assure all systems are in line with the long-term corporate and IT strategy
• Provides buy vs. build recommendations, including advising on system options, risks, return on investment (ROI), and impact to business processes
• Ensures the adherence to quality standards and procedures, reviews modules for quality assurance, and ensures compliance with application architecture standards
• Leads the development of guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development/ integration including developing and leading implementation plans for integration testing. Interfaces with testing teams to incorporate plans into integration testing process