Application Integration Manager Jobs in Georgia (NOW HIRING)

Key Responsibilities:
Team Coordination & Cross-Work Stream Interaction:
-Facilitate coordination between cross-functional teams and work streams to ensure effective communication, knowledge sharing, and alignment across departments.
-Drive collaboration between different teams, ensuring that each work stream is on track, with clear ownership and timelines.
-Act as the main point of contact between work streams, ensuring that dependencies between teams are identified and managed proactively.
Project Oversight & Progress Monitoring:
-Develop comprehensive project plans that outline clear goals, milestones, deadlines, and responsibilities across multiple work streams.
-Track the progress of all work streams within a project, ensuring that individual streams align with overall project objectives and timelines.
-Address any delays or issues that arise, ensuring smooth project progression and that any interdependencies are handled efficiently.
Resource Allocation & Bandwidth Management:
-Monitor team capacity and bandwidth across work streams to ensure that resources are optimally allocated and that no team or individual is overburdened.
-Reallocate resources as needed to maintain a balanced workload and ensure high-priority tasks are completed on time.
-Ensure alignment of resources across multiple work streams to avoid conflicts and optimize productivity.
Performance Tracking & Evaluation:
-Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of teams and work streams, using data to assess productivity and identify areas for improvement.
-Provide regular feedback to team members and work stream leaders, identifying opportunities for process improvements or resource adjustments.
-Report on the status of project deliverables and team performance to senior leadership, offering insights and actionable recommendations.
Task Progression & Outcome Evaluation:
-Ensure the timely completion of tasks across work streams, making adjustments as needed to accommodate shifts in priorities or resources.
-Evaluate the outcomes of completed projects, identifying key successes and areas for future improvement.
Risk, Security & Issue Management:
-Proactively identify and address potential risks, including cybersecurity vulnerabilities or compliance issues, that may affect the progress or quality of work across different work streams.
-Develop risk mitigation plans and implement corrective actions promptly to keep projects on course.
-Ensure that all project risks, including those related to security policies and data protection, are communicated to stakeholders in a timely manner.
-Maintain familiarity with state agency security regulations and ensure that applications and systems comply with applicable state and federal security policies and standards.
Security Collaboration & Guidance:
-Work closely with enterprise security teams to review and validate security architecture for applications across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
-Provide ongoing security guidance to application development and DevOps teams, ensuring adherence to security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
-Collaborate on the implementation of secure CI/CD pipelines, integrating security checks such as static/dynamic code analysis, secrets scanning, and artifact integrity verification.
-Guide teams on proper configuration and use of cloud security services (e.g., IAM, encryption, network security controls) in platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
-Assist in developing and enforcing infrastructure security standards, including secure provisioning, patch management, and hardening of resources across environments.
-Participate in threat modeling and security risk assessments to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in application design and deployment strategies.
Vendor Management & Collaboration:
-Oversee relationships with external vendors, ensuring they deliver products and services on time and within agreed-upon terms.
-Collaborate with vendors to resolve any project-related issues and ensure that their deliverables meet organizational and security standards.
-Ensure that vendor engagements include appropriate security clauses, and that vendors adhere to state-mandated cybersecurity practices.
Continuous Improvement & Process Optimization:
-Identify opportunities to streamline workflows across work streams, improve communication, and increase efficiency.
-Implement best practices and process improvements to optimize project execution, resource allocation, and team collaboration.
-Continuously integrate security best practices into the application lifecycle and project management methodologies.
Qualifications:
-10+years' experience in application management, project oversight, and cross-functional team coordination.
-Strong leadership and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage and oversee multiple teams and work streams simultaneously.
-Proven experience collaborating with security architects and engineering teams to ensure secure application design and deployment.
-Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including identity management, encryption, and network segmentation.
-Experience with secure CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code security controls (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
-Familiarity with security tools and platforms, container security, vulnerability management, and SIEM systems.
-Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity principles, secure application development, and compliance with state agency IT security policies.
-Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, or other relevant government security standards.
-Experience in vendor management, including negotiation, performance tracking, and contract management.
-Expertise in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to track performance and optimize resources effectively.
-Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaborationand manage complex relationships.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage risks and resolve issues in a timely manner.