Job Purpose / Mission:

We have an opportunity for a Technology Manager within the Technology Consulting practice at Cramer. Your primary responsibility will be leading the architecture and development of technical solutions for one or more of Cramer’s clients. As a Technology Manager, you will divide your time between technical consulting, technical management and high-level design/development activities with your team of engineers. The Technology Manager reports to the Director of Technology Consulting.

Responsibilities:

• Work with client stakeholders and business analysts to elicit business, functional and technical requirements
• Participate in scoping activities, working with project managers and engineering leads to identify risks, generate task breakdowns, estimate work durations and sequence dependencies
• Generate technical specifications and contribute to architecture and high-level technical design activities
• Act as the primary technical interface between the engineering team and other Cramer capabilities
• Actively communicate status and risks to project managers
• Work closely with the User Experience team to generate functional specifications
• Partner with the Creative team to explore technical capabilities and understand constraints of the medium
• Support the Analytics team by ensuring the measurability of our technology solutions
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to draft test plans
• Act as a subject matter expert on client-side systems and processes, collecting and managing knowledge on existing systems and protocols
• Act as a steward for processes, practices and methodologies—whether internal, client-facing or client-side

Skills:

• Proven leadership and managerial skills; excellent interpersonal skills and client presence
• Dazzling written and verbal communication with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences
• Critical thinker with strong analytic and problem-solving skills; ability to quickly assess situations and make decisions
• Strong work ethic, self-starter, creative, energetic and enthusiastic
• Strong organizational skills
• Efficient, adaptable and unflappable under pressure; able to multitask and balance competing or shifting priorities
• Working knowledge of platform architecture and deployment considerations
• A command of software engineering methodologies and internet technologies
• Broad experience designing and developing JEE or ASP.NET applications for transactional websites
• Conversant in SQL with decent understanding of Oracle, MySQL or MSSQL
• Familiarity with service-oriented architectures and message-oriented middleware
• A firm grasp on accessibility, usability and user interface concerns
• Understanding of semantic markup, CSS-driven layouts and unobtrusive JavaScript
• Business process analysis and modeling skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
• 3-5 years of development experience with knowledge in enterprise architecture and systems integration
• Minimum 1-3 years experience leading technical teams
• Agency, consulting or delivery-oriented professional services experience is a plus
• Content management, marketing automation or internet commerce experience is a plus