Director of Software Engineering

Kimball Midwest, a national distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation products, is searching for a Director of Software Engineering for our Columbus, OH location.

As a Kimball Midwest associate, you will experience why we have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Columbus Thirteen years in a row! Our sales revenue growth is dynamic, increasing from $1 million in 1983 to over $500 million today. Throughout all our growth we have kept the family owned and operated culture alive. At Kimball Midwest, you are a name and not a number and we pride ourselves on our unique culture.

Responsibilities

▪ Responsible for achieving the Development portion of the IT corporate plan, development org roadmap, capacity planning, and integration with all other IT functions
▪ Accountable for the staffing, budget, skill development, evaluations, and compensation management for the entire development function
▪ Develops a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
▪ Establishes structure, communicates vision and strategy, and ensures cadence, tools, processes, and oversight to lead BAU, Product delivery, Project delivery, and internal modernization
efforts
▪ Provides thought leadership into company strategic vision for technology application management
▪ Partners with Architecture in a tethered approach to enable highest quality delivery of designs and software delivery
▪ Establishes and continuously improves metrics that enable a measurable model for successful delivery for the development organization
▪ Created a structure and cadence for necessary reporting up
▪ Creates and owns the SDLC phasers specific to development – partners with Product, PMO, and Agility to establish a shared IT SDLC
▪ Established and maintains relationships within IT and across company leadership
▪ Oversees the software development lifecycle
▪ Ensures critical measurable processes and standards are in place for cybersecurity/risk and quality of code delivery
▪ Ensures change management practices within Development are in place and shared 20 square feet leadership of change management for the Development function is in place
▪ Ensures structure is in place to identify, communicate, and escalate risks, assumptions, actions, issues, and dependencies that impact software development
▪ Encourages a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team, promoting new ideas and methodologies

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience of software application development or supervision
• Understanding of C# or similar object-oriented programming language
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server or similar relational database management system
• Conceptual understanding of domain-driven design and microservice architecture
• The ability to read and write small letters and numbers; the ability to make arithmetic calculations; and the ability to understand and follow

written and oral instructions

• The successful completion of a ninety (90) day orientation period
• The execution of an Employment Agreement

Additional Information

We offer a benefits package that includes health, dental and vision insurance, company sponsored life, optional life and disability insurance, Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts, a 401(k) plus match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (PTO), a Dress for your Day dress code and paid holidays.

Kimball Midwest is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a program of recruitment of females, minority group members, individuals with disabilities, qualifying veterans and any other classification that is protected by federal, state, or local law.

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