Central Valley Ag Cooperative

Director

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of two: an Applied Innovation Engineer and an Applied Innovation Analyst
• Hire into the team as it grows
• Personally design, develop, and review application code
• Own the application portfolio roadmap and run intake with business leaders
• Set priorities against business value and decide what the team will not build
• Establish and maintain a delivery cadence that puts usable software in front of users in weeks rather than quarters
• Report delivery cadence and progress
• Own production availability, including deployment, release management, monitoring, and incident response
• Establish and enforce engineering practices covering version control, testing, code review, release and change management, and documentation
• Establish the team's AI-assisted development practice, including tooling, review standards, guardrails, and company and customer data handling
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture on architecture, integration, and data standards
• Partner with IT Infrastructure and IT Security on hosting, identity, access management, and secure development
• Equip the support organization with documentation, runbooks, training, and knowledge transfer for tier 1 and tier 2 support
• Serve as the escalation point for business applications
• Maintain the boundary between operational applications and data-question-answering tools owned by the Director of Data & AI Enablement
• Partner with the Data & AI Enablement team rather than duplicating its work
• Manage vendor relationships, cloud spend, and licensing
• Report delivery, risk, and portfolio health to the Chief Technology Officer and business leadership
• Directly supervise the Applied Innovation Engineer and Applied Innovation Analyst
• Conduct interviewing and hiring, work planning and assignment, coaching, performance management, and employee concern resolution
• Perform other duties as assigned

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Director of Applied Innovation

Research Engineer

• Design, develop, test, and deploy custom business applications, APIs, and integrations
• Work directly with CVA employees, location staff, and growers to understand problems and translate them into working software
• Own features end to end, from intake through production and ongoing support
• Deploy and release software; monitor production applications; diagnose and resolve production issues
• Integrate applications with CVA's ERP, Microsoft 365, cloud services, vendor APIs, and other data sources
• Use AI-assisted development and review generated code, tests, and configuration rigorously
• Write and maintain technical documentation and runbooks
• Help the Applied Innovation Analyst create materials enabling routine support
• Participate in code reviews and uphold practices for version control, testing, and release management
• Provide initial support for applications built and escalate infrastructure, identity, and security matters
• Contribute to technical decisions and evaluate and recommend tools, platforms, and approaches
• Perform other duties as assigned
• No direct supervisory responsibility unless specifically assigned

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Applied Innovation Engineer

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of two Applied Innovation Engineer and Applied Innovation Analyst positions
• Hire into the team as it grows
• Personally design, develop, review, and ship application code
• Own the application portfolio roadmap and run intake with business leaders
• Set priorities against business value and determine what the team will not build
• Establish and maintain a delivery cadence that puts usable software in front of users in weeks rather than quarters
• Report delivery progress against the cadence
• Own production availability, including deployment, release management, monitoring, and incident response
• Establish and enforce engineering practices for version control, testing, code review, release and change management, and documentation
• Establish the team's AI-assisted development practice, including tooling, review standards, guardrails, and company and customer data handling
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture on architecture, integration, and data standards
• Partner with IT Infrastructure and IT Security on hosting, identity, access management, and secure development
• Equip the support organization with documentation, runbooks, training, and knowledge transfer for tier 1 and tier 2 support
• Serve as the escalation point for business applications
• Maintain the boundary between operational applications and data-question-answering tools owned by the Director of Data & AI Enablement
• Manage vendor relationships, cloud spend, and licensing
• Report delivery, risk, and portfolio health to the Chief Technology Officer and business leadership
• Interview and hire employees, plan and assign work, coach and manage performance, and address employee concerns
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Design, develop, test, and deploy custom business applications, APIs, and integrations
• Work directly with CVA employees, location staff, and growers to understand problems and translate them into working software
• Own features end to end, from intake through production and ongoing support
• Deploy and release software; monitor production applications; diagnose and resolve production issues
• Integrate applications with CVA's ERP, Microsoft 365, cloud services, vendor APIs, and other data sources
• Use AI-assisted development and review generated code, tests, and configuration
• Write and maintain technical documentation and runbooks
• Help the Applied Innovation Analyst build support materials
• Participate in code review and uphold practices for version control, testing, and release management
• Provide initial support for applications built and escalate infrastructure, identity, and security matters
• Contribute to technical decisions and evaluate and recommend tools, platforms, and approaches
• Perform other duties as assigned
• No direct supervisory responsibility unless specifically assigned

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