Application Manager

Become Part of Our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking an Application Manager to join our ever-growing IT team.

The Applications Manager is responsible for the operational management, security posture, and lifecycle governance of enterprise applications managed by the Applications Team. This role oversees application reliability, vulnerability remediation, patch compliance, and system lifecycle management while ensuring alignment with enterprise security policies, change management procedures, and business operational requirements.

The Applications Manager leads the Application Analysts responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise platforms, coordinating remediation of application vulnerabilities, and ensuring applications remain secure, supported, and aligned with business needs. The role serves as the primary liaison between the Applications Team, Security, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders.

Essential Functions

Application Operations Management

• Provide operational oversight for enterprise applications managed by the Applications Team.
• Ensure systems remain supported, secure, and maintained according to vendor and internal security standards.
• Establish operational procedures for application lifecycle management including upgrades, maintenance, and decommissioning.

Vulnerability and Patch Management

• Oversee vulnerability identification and remediation activities for managed applications and operating systems.
• Ensure vulnerabilities are tracked, prioritized, and remediated within defined timelines through coordination with Security and Infrastructure teams.

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop Application Analysts responsible for enterprise application operations.
• Define team responsibilities, set operational expectations, and support professional development.

Change Management and Governance

• Ensure application maintenance and remediation activities follow established Change Management processes.
• Coordinate CAB submissions when necessary and manage emergency remediation actions for critical vulnerabilities.

Vendor and Platform Management

• Manage relationships with application vendors and service providers.
• Coordinate patch releases, vulnerability advisories, product updates, and support escalations.

Operational Reporting and Risk Monitoring

• Track and report application health, patch compliance, vulnerability remediation status, and operational metrics to IT leadership.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Education/Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).

Minimum Requirements

• 7+ years of experience supporting or managing enterprise business applications.
• 3+ years of leadership or supervisory experience within an IT operations or applications environment.
• Experience overseeing application lifecycle management including upgrades, patching, and remediation.
• Experience managing vendor-supported enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management and patch management practices.
• Experience working with IT service management platforms such as FreshService or similar.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management.
• Experience with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Experience with Patch My PC or similar patch deployment platforms.
• Familiarity with ITIL or IT Service Management frameworks.
• Experience working in complex enterprise application environments.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and team development skills
• Analytical problem-solving abilities
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to translate technical issues into business impact
• Strong organizational and documentation practices

Working Conditions

• Typical Physical Demands: Regularly use hands to manipulate tools, controls, phones and computer keyboard. Frequently stand, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, and stoop. Sit and stand to do clerical work. Regularly lift and move office supplies up to 50 lbs.
• Typical Work Conditions: Work is performed in an office.

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.