Director of Applied AI & Rapid Software Delivery

Central Valley Ag; York (NE); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Valley Ag seeks a Director of Applied Innovation in York, NE to lead a small, fast team building CVA's custom business apps such as RouteForge and Gravis and a grower portal. The role combines leadership with hands-on coding, portfolio direction, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure usable software in users’ hands within weeks.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software, proven leadership, and strong cloud and integration experience.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years building and supporting business software.
• Demonstrated leadership of a team, a product, or a significant delivery effort.
• Willingness to lead hands-on engineering and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead a two-person team and hire as it grows.
• Design, develop, review, and ship application code.
• Own portfolio roadmap and prioritize work by business value.
• Establish fast delivery cadence delivering usable software weekly.
• Ensure production availability, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Enforce engineering practices: version control, testing, and documentation.
• Establish AI-assisted development practices and guardrails.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture for standards compliance.
• Coordinate with IT Infra and IT Security on hosting and security.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud deployments

System integration

Stakeholder communication

Production operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field

Job description

Central Valley Ag seeks a Director of Applied Innovation in York, NE to lead a small, fast team building CVA's custom business apps such as RouteForge and Gravis and a grower portal. The role combines leadership with hands-on coding, portfolio direction, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure usable software in users’ hands within weeks.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software, proven leadership, and strong cloud and integration experience.