Senior Manager, Application Manager

About the Role The Application Manager is responsible for the end-to-end ownership, stability, strategic evolution, and governance of a GCF application. This role ensures applications are reliable, secure, compliant, and aligned with business and technology strategies. The manager leads cross-functional teams and partners closely with senior stakeholders to deliver high-impact technology outcomes that enable business performance. What You'll Do

• Oversee the full application lifecycle—from planning, design, development, deployment, maintenance, and retirement—to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Lead the execution of application enhancements, upgrades, currency initiatives, and decommissioning programs, following established governance frameworks (aligned with processes such as currency, patching, SSL lifecycle, DBR testing).
• Ensure applications adhere to internal policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards, including alignment with enterprise security practices.
• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts, and support personnel, providing clear direction, performance feedback, and development opportunities.
• Build strong relationships with business leaders, risk partners, architecture teams, and support teams.
• Facilitate effective communication with management, articulating risks, resourcing needs, application health, and roadmap impacts.
• Ensure operational stability, overseeing incident management, problem resolution, monitoring, and root‑cause analysis.
• Drive improvements in performance, resiliency, and availability, working closely with support teams.
• Manage and enforce change management processes to minimize production risk.
• Develop and maintain multi‑year application roadmaps aligned with organizational goals and architecture standards.
• Own and manage application budgets, including forecasting and cost control.
• Drive innovation opportunities, modernization initiatives, and cloud‑first adoption where applicable. What We're Looking For
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams of engineers, analysts, and support personnel.
• Strong governance and lifecycle management experience (planning, design, development, deployment, maintenance, retirement) and governance frameworks (currency, patching, SSL lifecycle, DBR testing).
• Ability to ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with business leaders, risk partners, architecture teams, and support teams.
• Track record of incident management, problem resolution, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
• Familiarity with cloud adoption, modernization initiatives, and cloud-first strategies.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate risks, resourcing needs, and roadmap impacts to management.