Director - Technical Product Owner/App Development Leader, Development (50356)

Citrin Cooperman offers a dynamic work environment, fostering professional growth and collaboration. We’re continuously seeking talented individuals who bring fresh perspectives, a problem-solving mindset, and sharp technical expertise. We know you have choices, so our team of collaborative, innovative professionals are at the ready to support your professional development. At Citrin Cooperman, we offer competitive compensation and benefits and most importantly, the flexibility to manage your personal and professional life to focus on what matters most to you!

We are looking for a Director, Technical Product Owner/App Development Leader to join the Development team within the Information Technology (IT) department. They’ll lead and execute software development initiatives for the applicable service line. This role will own technical solutions, development, and capabilities.

Responsibilities are, but not limited to:

• Process regularly delivering features in an agile way, delivering against the strategic priorities and business outcomes of the service line.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement championing the use of automation, metrics, and AI to create efficiency and enhance business intelligence.
• Understand the service line business processes and solutions end to end (Technical SME of the service line).
• Partner with the Service Line’s Functional Product Owner to implement solutions requiring technology.
• Manage development escalations and blockers ensuring alignment of solutions with corporate priorities.
• Manage technical vendor partner development projects for the applicable service line.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, security, and financial standards.
• Ensure projects are compliant with data integrity, enterprise architecture, and security standards and policies.
• Ability to translate complex technical issues or concepts into business understandable terms.
• Manage vendor relationships ensuring top talent is allocated to the firm, timelines and quality of deliverables are met.
• Ability to operate at multiple levels as the situation requires (e.g. hands on problem solving, strategic, etc.).

The ideal candidate must:

• 4-year degree is strongly preferred, or we’re open to equivalent work experience
• Have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Have at least 5 years of experience managing complex projects.
• Have at least 5 years of direct management of a development team.
• Be a highly inquisitive and proactive partner to business and IT stakeholders.
• Possess a development background (required).
• Possess fluency in SQL (required).
• Possess PE experience (preferred).