This position can be located in Billings, MT; Bozeman, MT; Boise, ID; or Sioux Falls, SD.

What's Important to You

We know your career is just one aspect of a meaningful, complex, and demanding life. That's why we designed our compensation and benefits package to provide employees and their families with as much choice as possible.

• Accrue and use your paid time off (PTO) immediately - no waiting period - plus paid federal holidays in addition to PTO.
• To assist employees in paying down student loan debt, we will make monthly payments of $100 directly to eligible loan service providers on behalf of our employees until the loan is paid off.
• Our retirement plan is one of the best in the region, including a 6% employer match on your 401(k). Employees (including temporary) scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are automatically enrolled day one.
• The health and happiness of the places we call home matter to us. Learn a little more about what we do for the communities we serve, and why we want YOU to be a part of it.

We encourage you to apply. Reach for what you want and tell us why your work ethic and willingness to learn make you a natural fit for #TeamFirstInterstate.

SUMMARY

The Director of IT Data and Development leads the development efforts for the organization's system and application integration projects. While some internal and client facing applications are developed, software development at First Interstate Bank most often consists of system and application integration. This includes participating in the defining and maintaining of the organizational integration and information architecture, management of Quality Assurance teams and the responsibility of the Digital Banking Environment, including CRM. In addition, the Director of IT Data and Development is responsible for defining best practices and mentoring more junior resources. This position reports to the CIO.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following: other duties may be assigned.

• Provides clear and confident leadership by developing an inspiring and achievable vision and plan.
• Leads by example and is capable of inspiring dedicated professionals at all levels. A leader of impeccable integrity whom others respect and want to follow. Track record of building and leading a strong, loyal team.
• Develops trusted relationships with key stakeholders and employees based on a strong IT knowledge base, excellent communications and leadership; earns the respect of employees, peers, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates a strong and mutually respectful partnership with the lines of business ensure focuses on effective delivery.
• Moves the Bank forward in meeting its growth strategy while at the same time optimizing efficiency to meet budget expectations and other key performance indicators.
• A change agent, who can operate at both a strategic and tactical level.
• Dynamic, innovative, and forward-thinking leader who is also results-oriented.
• Ability to take aggressive action to eliminate constraints and manage in an agile manner to enable transformation, while focusing on governance and process to ensure effective delivery.
• Manages the Digital Banking and CRM environments.
• Leads development of a system-wide integration architecture including API management and integration components.
• Manages a department of multiple teams including, IT Data, QA, Software Development and Integrations.
• Responsible for new development, as well as production support for system and application integrations, corporate website, internal web-based applications, and Salesforce.
• Must be able to understand Business Unit requirements and ensure effective translation to IT Systems Requirements.
• Ensures strict adherence to FIB's Software Development Lifecycle, code reviews, version control, segregation of duties, and Change Control processes.
• Facilitates the production release of new functionality and provides support of production issues.
• Supports application testing, deployment, maintenance, and evolution activities by correcting programming errors, responding to scope changes, and coding application enhancements.
• Participates and leads formal design and code reviews as needed.
• Collaborates with third parties as needed for joint Development activities.
• Collaborates with Project Stakeholders, Senior Leadership, and the Project Management office in a manner that ensures efficient communication while meeting the needs of the business.
• Personnel Management responsibilities for a department that includes Managers and/or Team Leaders and experienced professionals.
• Ownership of short to mid-term (1-3 years) execution of functional strategy and the operational direction of the department.
• Problems faced are often complex and require extensive investigation and analysis.
• Requires the ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and the ability to communicate and influence Executive Leadership.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

First Interstate is looking for leaders with a strong track record of success, strong core values and leadership character. Must have the ability to lead and motivate utilizing the following core competencies:

• Drives Vision and Purpose
• Drives Strategy Execution
• Fosters a Collaborative Environment
• Maintains a Customer/Client Focus
• Builds Internal Partnerships
• Promotes Innovation
• Attracts and Develops Top Talent
• Communicates Effectively
• Models and Inspires Trust
• Resilient

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year College or University and/or a minimum of eight (8) years' experience in Information Technology, Information Systems, and Bank Systems is required. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Demonstrated experience as a high-performing and a dynamic leader with executive exposure is crucial. In-depth understanding of the Financial Institution industry standards and benchmarks are a plus.

OTHER SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• Previous management experience preferred.
• Experience with .NET, C#, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript preferred.
• Experience with configuring commercial-off-the-shelf applications using programming, scripting, and database languages.
• Ability to analyze detailed business/functional/technical requirements and specifications for the application.
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on communication and collaboration.
• Must be able to work with limited supervision.
• Ability prioritize workload.
• Project Management experience and skills are a plus.
• Ability to solve complex problems independently.
• Ability to work under pressure and with interruptions.
• Experience with requirements gathering and documentation.
• Experience with an integration development environment
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in written format.
• Experience working within Agile methodologies.
• Ability to present materials in a clear and concise manner to all audiences, including staff, Executive Team, and the Board.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Strong communication skills are critical to allow effective communication to build positive, professional relationships and to ensure a high level of employee satisfaction. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, vendors, and internal customers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs, establish trends, and forecast.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.