Assistant Manager, Enterprise Development

Department Detail – The BGEA Information Technology (IT) department consists of the following areas: Operations (networking/routing, servers, storage, security cameras, telephony), Service Desk (end-user hardware and software management/support, event support, general IT assistance), Cybersecurity (threat defense, monitoring/analysis, awareness, and compliance), Enterprise Solutions (application and web development, data visualization, report writing, database management), and Enterprise Solutions Support (Donor/CRM, Financial, HR, and other ERP type solutions support). The IT department furthers the mission of BGEA through supporting, developing, scaling, and securing the assets, infrastructure, and programs required by all areas of the ministry while maintaining and ensuring their availability.

Job Summary – Assists the manager of the Application Developers as a contributing member of the team. Assists senior IT management in evaluating and implementing emerging software development technologies, including AI-assisted development practices, to improve engineering productivity, code quality, security, and delivery timelines. Collaborates with other members of the team to translate complex product requirements into working systems.

Ministry Requirements

• Maintains a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ
• Faithfully upholds BGEA in prayer
• Participates in daily BGEA staff devotions including Bible reading, and leading group prayer as schedule permits
• Demonstrates behavior aligned with BGEA’s Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, Hallmarks, policies, and expectations
• Effectively represents Jesus Christ to those within both personal and professional spheres of influence

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists with the management of the work of Enterprise Development team within IT.
• Meets with internal clients to determine project requirements, and serves as liaison to those clients as projects progress.
• Ensures service level agreements are met, engineer performance monitoring is performed, and works with team to provide timely resolution of identified production defects.
• Leads the evaluation, adoption, and governance of AI-assisted software development tools and practices, ensuring they are used effectively, securely, and in alignment with BGEA development standards.
• Cultivate operational excellence within teams.
• Contributes to strategy of all BGEA internally developed applications as a member of the team.
• Contributes design, code, code reviews, testing and documentation of projects along with the team for new applications, feature additions and bug fixes.
• Contributes to benchmarking of new systems and monitoring performance of production applications.
• Contributes to effort to ensure all code released by team is testable and tested.
• Contributes to effort to ensure all code released by team is secure.
• Contributes to effort to ensure all team adheres to BGEA and IT Development guidelines and standards
• Works with other IT management (UI/UX, DBS, Operations, Ark) to ensure project needs and timelines are realistic and achievable
• Identifies opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and application support processes.

Marginal Duties and Responsibilities

• Training
• Other duties as assigned

Job Specifications

Skills and Knowledge

• Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline, and minimum of 4 years of Application Development experience
• Minimum of 2 years management experience.
• Thorough knowledge of full web stack and various development technologies.
• Minimum 4 years experience server side languages such as PHP, ASP.NET, .Net Core, GoLang, Python, Java, and NodeJS
• Minimum 4 years experience server side frameworks and CMS’s such as NEXT.js, Hono, Express.js, Wordpress, Code Ignitor, .NET, Razor Pages
• Minimum 4 years experience working with database design and structured queries using systems such as MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis
• Strong experience with AI Coding Harness such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI
• Strong experience working with API Design and implementation of API’s into existing legacy applications
• Client side languages such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SASS, JSON, JSON Schema
• Client side frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, JQuery, Foundation, and Bootstrap.
• Virtual development / production environments such as Enterprise, Docker Swarm, AWS, Virtual Box, OpenStack, Vagrant, and MAMP.
• Preferably experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins and Ansible
• Understanding of Agile principles and methods, preferably Scrum.
• Testing methodologies.

Physical/Mental Demands

• Ability to focus on detail while understanding the big picture
• Ability to meet deadlines while dealing with multiple projects, despite interruptions
• Ability to change and grow with organization and job
• Ability to bring new ideas to issues current in contemporary audiences, and knowing how to implement those ideas
• Flexibility to readily adapt when job parameters, deadlines, or directions change
• Ability to work closely with others as part of a team
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

Working Conditions

• Work is typically performed in a conventional office environment and/or teleconferencing.
• Work involves participation in multiple meetings with department and other ministry staff
• Work requires ability to work for extended periods at computer workstation
• Extended work hours are occasionally required

The Title VII Exception for Employment

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) is a faith-based religious organization committed to spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ through every effective means. Consistent with our charitable purpose to share the Christian faith, a requirement for employment at BGEA is affirmation and adherence to our Christian Statement of Faith. Our Statement of Faith prerequisite for employment is based upon federal law set forth in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. Section 2000e-1.

Benefits Summary

Full-Time employees working at least 36 hours per week, are eligible for benefits.

• Medical, prescription, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long term and short term disability insurance
• Term Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays, including 1 floating holiday
• Minimum 12 days of vacation
• 10 sick days