Senior Director, Application Development Details

Senior Director, Application Development

SiriusXM - Washington, DC

Employment Type : Full-Time

Who We Are:
SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, Stitcher, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners - in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.
How you’ll make an impact:
The Sr. Director, Application Development will be responsible for management of the architecture, design, and development phases of the SDLC for the Identity Management systems (IDM). The position will provide vision, leadership and management to application development teams and will be responsible for developing and maintaining standards as well as driving architectural solutions and system design across multiple applications. Activities encompass the delivery of new projects as well as on-going maintenance and support. Responsible for delivering value to SiriusXM through solution design and delivery, roadmap, and supporting an Application Infrastructure Services vision and roadmap. The goal is to ensure that the solutions and services delivered by AppDev meet both business and technical objectives and are aligned with the long-term technology roadmap.
What you’ll do:

• Oversee the full lifecycle of application development projects and ensure robust use of best-in-class methodology and tools for application design and development of identity management and IoT applications.
• Hire and manage a team of highly skilled application designers and developers.
• Ensure alignment of IDM applications with company goals and strategies, managing performance to objectives.
• Manage application development plans. Communicate and coordinate plans, risks, and status to business clients and supporting IT functions.
• Maintain and enhance the identity management portfolio, including both custom developed and licensed products.
• Provide direction, vision, deployment and management for the IDM applications.
• Manage cooperative relationships across IT and business functions with respect to systems, projects, processes, and teams.
• Responsible for implementing and enforcing data security measures.
• Oversee contractor performance and effectiveness to maximize our ROI.
• Responsible for effective integration with all partner teams and processes.
• Impact assessment and estimation of changes required to support ongoing projects.
• Responsible for branching and merging code streams at appropriate points in time.
• Responsible for tracking actual development effort against estimated development effort.
• Responsible for quarterly and year end evaluations
• Assist mentoring junior level talent on design process and methodology.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in Application Design, Development with knowledge of identity management and subscriber billing systems.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in managing teams.
• Working knowledge of Agile or other suitable methodologies
• Strong AWS experience with ALBs, ECS, Route53, Aurora RDS
• Experience with LDAP and SQL databases
• Release Management (CVS, Git, SVN), Artifactory, Continues Integration, Jenkins, Ansible
• Proficiency Developing Function/Technical Designs
• Expert in cloud architecture, Docker
• Software Security and compliance, Vault
• Oauth, SAML experience required.
• Experience working with Atlassian JIRA and confluence preferable
• Experience working with Atlassian BitBucket preferable
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Comfortable dealing with both business marketing, technical, and security perspectives.
• Ability to create high quality development teams.
• Extensive experience with all aspects of SDLC management.
• Proven track record in developing high quality applications.
• Knowledge of object oriented analysis and design.
• Knowledge in identity management development and support.
• Project management experience.
• Experience with customer-facing applications
• Development and support of B2B, B2C, B2E, and B2D (IoT) identity applications
• Experience with high volume, high-availability applications.
• Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Ability to pay attention to details and be organized
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects
• Strong organizational skills and attention to details
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multi-task, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.