Overview

Please note, this position is designated as flexible, which means the selected candidate may be required to report to the assigned office in Greensboro, NC at least part of the time each week. Technical Summary:This is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role for an experienced operations leader who can bring structure, accountability, and technical depth to how cloud services are supported, documented, measured, escalated, and continuously improved. The principal will own the operating model for platform operations, documentation, incident and change processes, HA/DR posture documentation, operational readiness standards for new cloud services, vendor performance management, and service-level accountability.The principal will enable onshore and offshore technical teams responsible for 24x7x365 operation of the environment, partner with vendors responsible for L1/L2 support, and coordinate with service and platform teams responsible for L3 escalation. The role ensures that services are not only technically ready for general availability, but operationally ready with runbooks, failure scenarios, monitoring, alerting, auditability, logging, escalation paths, ownership boundaries, and sustained support expectations in place. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications.Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.Builds and maintains trusting relation