Application Engineering Manager (P&C) - Farm Bureau Financial Services

Application Engineering Manager (P&C)

Are you passionate about serving as a lead liaison between business departments and IT to ensure the delivery of products and services? If you aspire to be a leader with customer focus and teamwork with the desire to drive and support strategic initiatives, then this Application Engineering Manager opportunity might just be the perfect match for you!

Who We Are: At Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We're proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.

What You'll Do: The Application Engineering Manager is responsible for implementing high risk, highly complex business projects. The incumbent also participates in regular meetings to keep both the business area and IT staff informed of productivity objectives, goals and concerns. The Application Engineering Manager works in a continually changing business and technical environment therefore they are required to stay current on business and technology trends. Excellent written and verbal skills are needed to maintain open communications between project teams, business areas, managers and other IT application areas. This position requires extensive Farm Bureau institutional, P&C business and application knowledge. In addition, you will:

• Partner with senior IT staff to design and ensure compliance with underlying principles, assumptions and strategies, ensure the integrity of applications, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Implement high risk, highly complex business applications. Formulate/define business scope, objectives, requirements and deliverables based on system development methodologies.
• Partner with software/hardware vendors to assist in recognizing possible business solutions. In partnership with the IT Director manage the vendor relationships and Service Level Agreement (SLA's). Set priorities that are in line with business goals.
• Identify business systems problems, determine level of urgency, work with technical team and communicate to the business area regarding issues/status/resolution.
• Oversee all staff development aspects including the selection, training/development, disciplining/performance review, salary administration, referring employee complaints, controlling workflow, motivation of employees, and assigned budget activities to ensure that the integrity of all system applications is maintained at all times.