Applications Development and Support Manager

Who we Are:

Yesway is an award-winning convenience store operator established in 2015 and headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. With 436 stores across nine states in the Midwest and Southwest, Yesway is renowned for its iconic food service offerings, diverse grocery selections, and private-label products, including the renowned Allsup’s deep-fried burrito. Through strategic acquisitions, new store developments, and a commitment to customer satisfaction, Yesway continues to solidify its position as one of the leading convenience retailers in the United States. For more information, visit www.yesway.com.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in the design, planning, operation, architecture and maintenance of all programs and applications.
• Responsible for the delivery of development projects, maintenance, minor enhancements, and production support.
• Initially manage a team of 3 developers and 4 application support engineers.
• Demonstrate leadership by coaching, mentoring, and providing guidance to support and encourage the development of team members.
• Work closely with the CTO and business units to ensure projects are tracked, communicated, and committed delivery dates are met.
• Develop and manage department budget to ensure compliance with stated goals, guidelines, and strategic initiatives.
• Experienced working with multiple vendors to coordinate delivery of 3rd party programs.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure the company is getting the best possible resources and that vendors are staying on task and on schedule with our projects.
• Manage the design, implementation, and documentation of IT policies, procedures and, standards as it relates to software development and support.
• Provide leadership in the development, implementation, and support of IT change management process.
• Work closely with other IT leadership such as the infrastructure manager and service desk manager to coordinate tier II activities in the application space.
• Independent travel 10% and work after hours, weekend and holidays as needed, periodically assisting, and supporting the store acquisition onboarding process.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Seven to ten years’ experience in a retail operations technology environment required; retail point of sale experience preferred.
• Five to eight years’ experience developing and managing people in IT support roles such as software developers and application support engineers.
• Previous experience with SIEM solutions and ITIL processes is very important.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to create and maintain standard operating procedures and documenting system processes.
• Experienced with various programming languages such as C#, PowerShell, SQL on Microsoft SQL server. (Using Microsoft Visual Studio targeting windows.
• The current team supports, Verifone and Gilbarco POS, store MG’s, internet, phones, back-office PC, integrating self-checkouts, CRIND limit changes, Trendar/Comdata POS, as well as various applications.
  
  

Preferred Skills and Competencies:

• Delivers results through teamwork, best practices, always putting customers at the center.
• Experience with ERP such as PDI.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and customer service skills.
  
  

YESWAY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.