IT Application Development Manager - Transportation Tech

Family Dollar; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% Bonus opportunity

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Family Dollar in Chesapeake, VA is seeking a Manager, IT Application Development to lead planning, delivery, and ongoing support of enterprise store technology across the retail footprint. You will manage internal teams and external partners, prioritize initiatives, govern budgets and vendor contracts, and drive process improvements to ensure reliable, secure applications for store operations.

This full-time, onsite role requires travel of about 10% and offers relocation assistance for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, MIS, or related field and 5+ years IT experience, or 10+ years progressive experience.
• Experience managing internal teams and external development vendors.
• Experience with systems integrators, software vendors, and hardware providers.
• Strong project and delivery management skills across complex initiatives.
• Experience with retail hardware procurement including contract negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Own intake, prioritization, and delivery of application development initiatives from requirements through deployment.
• Lead and coordinate internal staff, consultants, systems integrators, and hardware/software vendors.
• Provide oversight and technical direction for application development, integrations, and deployments.
• Curate scalable enterprise level solutions that are reliable and optimized for future growth.
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives while identifying risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Oversee store technology deployments to ensure minimal operational impact.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, vendor contracts, and change orders.
• Hold vendors accountable to delivery commitments, SLAs, and financial controls.
• Drive process improvement, delivery quality, and operational stability.
• Develop team members through coaching, performance management, and resource planning.

Skills

Project management

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Delivery management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, MIS, or related field

5+ years IT experience or 10+ years progressive experience

Tools

Sterling EDI

SOA

OTM

Job description

Family Dollar in Chesapeake, VA is seeking a Manager, IT Application Development to lead planning, delivery, and ongoing support of enterprise store technology across the retail footprint. You will manage internal teams and external partners, prioritize initiatives, govern budgets and vendor contracts, and drive process improvements to ensure reliable, secure applications for store operations.

This full-time, onsite role requires travel of about 10% and offers relocation assistance for