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Job Title: Product Director, Financial Systems Salary Range: Min: $115,826 Mid: $154,435 Max: $193,043 Hay Points: 994 Dept/Div: IT/Office of Enterprise Product Management Supervisor: Deputy Chief, Corporate Product Group Location: 2 Broadway and other locations as required Hours of Work: 9:00 AM -5:30 PM (7.5 hours/day) or as required Deadline: Open Until Filled In order to protect our employees and continue to provide safe and reliable service to our communities, as of November 14, 2021 we are requiring all new MTA hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their start date. MTA will consider exceptions for religious and medical reasons, where appropriate. "Fully vaccinated" means you must have both doses of a 2-dose vaccine and two weeks have elapsed since the second dose, or have received 1 dose of a 1-dose vaccine and two weeks have elapsed since the dose. Proof of your vaccination status in the form of a CDC vaccine card must be submitted prior to your start date. Summary The product teams are largely multi-functional and follow newer methodologies such as Agile and DevOps. Staff are assigned to product teams, some long-term, and some as needed for the short term. The teams may at times include, IT security, project management, client services, and other specialists in addition to traditional applications staff. The Product Director is responsible for developing and maintaining a product line of MTA Financial applications and in essence owns the product life cycle for many such products. The Product Director is responsible for one or more teams led by Product Managers (L-4 Level Managers) that each are responsible for one or more application-based and/or infrastructure-based products. The Product Director will lead the assigned staff in agile transformation and the digital agenda and develop roadmaps for application and/or infrastructure products assigned. This position will manage a team of technical staff responsible for defining the launch of new products and services within the PeopleSoft Financials' and Supply Chain environment and other MTA systems, developing technical roadmaps for existing products and delivering product features in an agile environment. The Product Director will develop relations with business stakeholders and product owners to roll out new features and improve business processes while providing guidance and leadership in the development and functional use of these systems. This position will be working closely with other IT teams and vendor to ensure reliability of services are maintained. The Product Director performs technical oversight and assessment of application and system development projects to ensure technical integrity and compliance with design requirements. Conduct appropriate technical reviews and prepare formal evaluations of all key deliverables and work products associated with the design, coding and build of the application or software configuration including the application architecture, technical specifications, application coding, unit testing, and integration testing Responsibilities Enterprise Product Planning- Lead a team of product managers responsible for creating transformation roadmaps with long and short-term plans for new and improved processes and policies. Manage product managers in the development of backlog management and user-story build-out
- Lead others that will consist of one or more agile coaches, data analytic researchers and other digital transformation personne
- Provide leadership in development of inter-team communication and cohesiveness; sustain culture and supporting staff during organizational growth/changes.
- Provide direction on evaluation, selection, implementation and maintenance of information systems, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems.
- Attract, develop, coach and retain high-performance team members, empowering them to elevate their level of responsibility, span of control and performance in conjunction with the IT Workforce Planning & Workload Management office.
- Build Product manager expertise and competence to meet evolving demands within the Enterprise Product Management unit.
- Demonstrate consistent understanding of funding, communications and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the program goals.
- Maintain contact with key IT suppliers and collaborates through IT Business Management Services to identify procurement contracts to support program related activities.
- Assesses and makes recommendations on the improvement and re-engineering within division and work with the stakeholders at the agencies at keeping the total cost of ownership down.
- Promote the use of employee self -service and mobile connectivity within products to reduce the reliance of paper.
- Automation of business process creating in-line forms and approvals, reducing the reliance on manual approves that could be untimely.
- Coordinates and facilitates consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations, developing business case and cost justifications for such initiatives.
- Provides direction on evaluation, selection, implementation, and maintenance of information systems, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems.
- Advises MTA IT management in the changing trends and emerging technology and their potential use within the MTA.
- Directs the development of the analysis required to determine if Information Technology projects should follow a "Build" (develop with in-house staff) or "Buy" (cloud or packaged solution) methodology.
- Directs the development and implementation of new modules within assigned products.
- Advises on the selection, prioritization, development and implementation on products as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of MTA IT applications and infrastructure.
- Participates in overall business planning bringing a current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems as related to the company's goals.
- Responsible for monitoring various product progress on Information Technology deliverables ensuring that the IT needs of the MTA are met on time and within budget, including identifying weekly, monthly and annual performance targets to show progress on IT product projects.
- Ensure continuous delivery of product services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of product performance.
- Responsible for the recruitment, development, motivation, training and retention of a diverse and high performing multi-level IT team professionals, conforming to budgetary objectives and Human Resources policy and programs in conjunction with the IT Workforce Planning & Workload Management office.
- Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives keeping customizations to a minimum and total cost of ownership down.
- Advanced knowledge of PeopleSoft FSCM and associated Application Development technologies.
- Knowledge of financials and supply chain process and intimate functional and technical knowledge of the Peoplesoft ERP system.
- Managerial experience. We can also consider the candidates who have been team leads and have led/managed people in matrixed environments.
- Experience with end-to-end lifecycle of Implementation and/or Upgrade along with Production support experience.
- Knowledge of DevOps and Agile methodology Successful track record in design of software systems to meet the current and future needs of a complex organization OR
- Successful track record in design and implementation of IT Infrastructure and related hardware and software technologies to meet the current and future needs of a complex transportation organization.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements pertaining to areas supervised a plus.
- Excellent verbal/written communications skills.
- Organizational skill, to manage a complex organization within a complex organization.
- Financial/budgeting planning and project management experience a plus.
- Ability to fit in with the constant shifting needs and demands of the business departments.
- A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or Information Services (or the equivalent of education and progressive responsible experience).
- A minimum of 12 years of Information Technology experience with at least 6 years of progressive IT managerial or leadership experience.
- Experience in the areas of strategic planning, business planning, data analysis, data reporting, and statistical process control a plus.
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