Director, Software Development Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, software development position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for functional leadership, oversight, and strategic direction for Development Operations Systems, a centralized department that provides strategic and technical direction, consultation, and support for systems utilized by Development functions, including Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Science, Global Patient Safety and Regulatory Affairs.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Understand business process, issues/problems and applies appropriate IT standards and solutions
• Develop and maintain a network of industry contacts
• In-depth knowledge of IT concepts, strategies and methodologies (agile) and their application to business opportunities
• In-depth knowledge of agile ceremonies and tools
• Dmonstrable success mentoring and growing junior engineers to senior levels
• Broad understanding of solutions, industry best practices, multiple business processes or industry technology products
• Monitors Implementation Consultants and/or Consulting Implementation Managers’ performance on projects
• Serves as project advisor for complex engagements

In response to your job posting for director, software development, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership and hands-on development support for production operations, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the SIS including numerous integrations with external systems.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• A thorough and hands-on understanding of the software development lifecycle, both in customized and commercially-available environments
• Experience designing and implementing processes for a mid-sized, multidisciplinary development team
• Drive and natural tendency to keep advancing technical and management skills
• Familiarity with transportation & logistics industry an asset
• Development and development management experience having programed in multiple languages and databases
• Enjoys the challenge of a high-energy environment where there are frequent changes and additions to the software TMW develops
• Strong organizational, time management, and people management capabilities
• Strong customer focus with a track record of driving delivery and operational performance improvements across an organization

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, software development position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for as required valid, clear and concise reporting on all verification and testing of software and associated systems during development.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies and practices both at company and in industry
• Some proficiency in all major programming languages used in the area, and leadership-level proficiency in
• Understanding of, and capacity to implement Language Tools, Office and common platforms
• C/C++/C# and Visual Basic development
• PCI-DSS and PA-DSS standards and their impact on the AJB systems & solutions
• EMV and its impact
• Experience in design, development and implementation of Retail Payment Solutions applications
• Significant knowledge in software development methodologies, tools and techniques

I would like to submit my application for the director, software development opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for mentoring, technical, and quality assurance leadership to the Senior Systems Analysts, Systems Analysts, Programmer Analysts, and Programmers throughout the Software and Systems Development group.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Demonstrated technical hands-on leader managing development teams in an agile work environment
• Experience building and improving systems that use machine learning and Big Data using NoSQL technologies, Elastic Search, Redshift, Spark, Java/Scala, NodeJS, C++ or Python
• Familiarity with common machine learning and statistical techniques, , boosted trees, neural networks, clustering, SVM and Bayesian statistics
• Working knowledge of big data technologies and high volume transactional systems
• Develops and implements business and/or IT vision, critical success factors and operating plans
• Anticipates and manages technology evolution and relates it to business solutions
• Thorough knowledge of Agile software development lifecycle and design-thinking
• Experience in building Fusion Apps would be highly desirable

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, software development position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for subject matter expertise for all enterprise software development, distributed systems architecture and enterprise applications integration.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Experience in Learning management domain will be an added advantage
• Develop strategies and roadmaps to meet business objectives with existing or emerging
• Career development of direct reports
• Proven experience managing the software development of highly available enterprise level 3-tier applications utilizing technologies such as Java, Spring, JavaScript, HTTP, JSON, Rest, XML, relational databases, big data, Hadoop
• Major enterprise rollout management experience
• Experience building mobile sites on the Demandware platform
• Experience building standards compliant HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML
• Experience using various JavaScript frameworks