Empower Configuration Manager

Job ID: 112165
Location: Hoover, Alabama  [On-Site]
Category: App/Dev
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 03/25/2026

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An established enterprise organization is seeking an IT Application Support Manager to lead day-to-day support and configuration efforts for a core business application platform supporting lending operations. This role manages an application support function, drives issue resolution and root-cause analysis, partners with technical teams on enhancements, and ensures changes/releases align with operational and compliance needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team responsible for application support, end-user assistance, and maintaining accurate support documentation.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex issues; coordinate troubleshooting across business and technical stakeholders.
  • Gather requirements, document functional needs, and partner with architects/engineers to align on solution designs and approvals.
  • Own operational workflows and monitoring routines to proactively identify recurring issues and trends.
  • Support platform administration and configuration, including environment setup, business rules, validation rules, dashboards/analytics, and reporting (including SQL-based reporting as needed).
  • Drive root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventative fixes.
  • Coordinate and manage testing across environments (development, QA, UAT, production) to ensure stable releases.
  • Track and manage releases, patches, change requests, and customizations—especially where regulatory/compliance timelines apply.
  • Act as a procedural expert for support policies, standards, and internal delivery processes; ensure team adherence to required governance.
  • Provide regular status updates to senior IT and business leadership regarding support health, risks, priorities, and team throughput.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.
  • 4+ years of relevant experience in application support / IT operations / application administration.
  • Prior people leadership experience (team lead, supervisor, or manager).

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Experience

  • Hands-on experience with Empower (Dark Matter) configuration/support.
  • Exposure to migrations from self-hosted to hosted/SaaS Empower environments.
  • Familiarity with Agile delivery practices.
  • Experience supporting legal/compliance document generation integrations used in mortgage lending (vendor tools used for compliant documents).
  • Strong understanding of mortgage and home equity lending processes and terminology.

Publishing Pay Range: $70.00 – $78.00 Hourly 

This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.