AVP - Software Engineering- Legal Systems

We invite you to explore a future with us at PRA Group, a diverse and growing company that has a tangible impact on the global economy.

Position Summary: 

Manages and supports the Legal Recovery Systems to create new features and capabilities. Works with the Legal Recovery Leadership team in modernizing the legal recovery systems and technology. Responsible for managing vendor resources responsible for the software buildout and modernization of the legal recovery software. Manages and leads offshore resources, facilitates team meetings, identifies, resolves and escalates any IT related issues. Creates and executes project work plans, Determines identifies resources needed and ensures that PRA’s development methodology and practices and project standards are adhered to. Responsible for the selection of new legal recovery software and ensuring that fits within the overall PRA Architecture.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• 10+ years of related IT Software Development experience
• 5+ years of Management experience
• 5+ years of experience with Vendor Management, associated with software development
• 3-5 years of experience with cloud-based technologies
• Software Engineering / Application Development – Expert
• Cloud Technologies – Advanced – Azure cloud preferred
• Agile Methodologies - Advanced•
• Software Engineering Practices – Advanced
• Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, .Net C#  – Intermediate
• Ability to strike the right balance between technology and business considerations - Advanced
• Experience in budget development and adherence - Advanced
• Excellent planning and organizational skills - Advanced
• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or similar field, or a demonstrable equivalent combination of formal education, on-the-job training, and/or work experience

Job Description

• Establishes and drives the vision, direction, and goals that have a broad organizational impact and connects them with the business objectives and corporate strategy. Actively enrolls others in the vision. Promote and advocate the corporate strategy.
• Ensures business objectives are met through the delivery of broader and more complex solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Partners with Business Stakeholders in the implementation of new capabilities to enable key strategy capabilities. 
• Responsible for the support and enhancements of the Legal Recovery Systems 
• Leverages new platforms for the implementation of new decision management capabilities replacing existing legacy application. 
• Accountable for leadership and oversight of the delivery of total solutions to the client / user / customer. Ensures all impacted parties are aware of any service-related incidents and ensures timely resolution.
• Accountable for reliability, scalability performance, and cost of the Applications related components.
• Effectively partners with Product Owners on prioritization and ensure delivery to plan.
• Develops and manages the overall budget, including resource, development, and non-project and/or project costs.
• Manages annual expenditures and results delivered by the teams within span of control. Balances competing delivery and resource demands across all projects and products in client portfolio.
• Identifies and removes barriers across teams and areas to ensure cooperative efforts between teams and divisions.
• Develops, maintains, and manages long-term relationships with the business and other customers. Manages customer expectations.
• Maintains relevant and current technical or functional knowledge in support of solution delivery.
• Provides leadership in introducing new approaches and tactics to the organization.
• Leverages and encourages the use of benchmarking data and industry research. Actively pursues industry information for application within the organization. Provide expertise to the organization on benchmarking data and industry research

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages the vendor team responsible for software enhancements and modernization of the Legal Recovery systems
• Responsible for the management of Software Engineering resources including Automation Testing Engineers

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, sex, gender, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, citizenship, or any other classes recognized by state or local law or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. We are a drug free workplace.