Senior IT Applications Engineer II - Automotive Captive Finance

About the job

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

• The CASS AF Mainframe Development Team Lead is a front-line people leader responsible for managing a team of Mainframe developers who support CASS and AF applications for AHFC (American Honda Finance Corp) and HCFI (Honda Canada Finance, Inc.). The position requires demonstrated expertise in the Captive Finance domain and hands-on experience with CASS and AF applications, business processes, integrations, batch processing, and production operations.
• Reporting to the CASS AF Team Manager, the Team Lead is accountable for associate development, performance management, work assignment, capacity planning, technical quality, production stability, and delivery of approved application enhancements, releases, and project commitments. The position combines formal people-management responsibility with functional and technical leadership, including solution and code reviews, incident and problem management, release readiness, and coordination with business, architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and vendor partners.
• The Team Lead operates within approved priorities, staffing plans, budgets, policies, architecture standards, and governance processes. Significant staffing actions, compensation decisions, material budget changes, contract decisions, and exceptions to approved standards are escalated to the CASS AF Team Manager or the designated approving authority.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage and develop the assigned CASS and AF (Auto Finance) Mainframe developer team. Establish performance goals, conduct regular one-on-one discussions, provide coaching and timely feedback, complete performance evaluations, support individual development and succession planning, address performance concerns, and promote associate engagement and accountability. Build sufficient CASS, AF, and Captive Finance knowledge across the team to reduce key-person dependencies and support operational continuity.
• Plan, assign, prioritize, and monitor daily CASS and AF application development, maintenance, enhancement, project, and production-support work. Balance delivery and operational demands; manage team capacity and coverage; assign work based on technical and application knowledge; remove delivery blockers; and escalate unresolved priority, resource, or capacity conflicts to the CASS AF Team Manager.
• Provide functional and technical oversight for CASS and AF Mainframe solutions. Apply Captive Finance, CASS, and AF knowledge when reviewing requirements, solution designs, code, interfaces, data flows, batch processes, estimates, test results, implementation plans, and production-support procedures. Ensure compliance with approved architecture, security, privacy, development, testing, change-management, documentation, and operational-control standards.
• Lead delivery of assigned CASS and AF projects, enhancements, maintenance activities, and releases. Coordinate business and technical requirements, estimates, resource needs, dependencies, risks, testing, implementation, deployment readiness, post-production validation, status reporting, and corrective actions to achieve approved scope, schedule, cost, quality, and control commitments.
• Maintain production stability for CASS and AF applications through incident and problem management, root-cause analysis, corrective-action tracking, release coordination, batch and interface monitoring, performance monitoring, and appropriate off-hours escalation. Apply knowledge of Captive Finance processes, application dependencies, data flows, and upstream and downstream integrations to coordinate. timely resolution across application, infrastructure, security, data, operations, and vendor teams.
• Partner with the CASS AF Team Manager, AHFC/HCFI business stakeholders, and IT partners on workforce needs, succession and capability planning, vendor performance, CASS and AF application roadmaps, technical debt, continuous improvement, risk management, and budget inputs. Provide fact-based recommendations and execute approved staffing, delivery, technical, operational, and process decisions within delegated authority.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Minimum education:

• A Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science / Engineering / Information Technology, or a related STEM field of study.

• Minimum work experience:

• Overall, at least 5 to 7 years of progressive IT application development, maintenance, and production support experience, including 5 or more years supporting captive finance processes.

• 5 or more years of direct hands-on CASS and AF (auto finance) application experience.

• Must have 5 or more years of demonstrable mainframe development / support experience covering batch, online transactions, interfaces, troubleshooting, and production operations

• 3 or more years of formal people leadership

• 3 or more years leading application delivery, releases, production support, or technical workstreams.

• Should have experience coordinating associates, vendors, and contingent resources, as required.

• Other job-specific skills:

• Strong CASS, AF (auto finance), captive finance and functional knowledge of mainframe systems.

• Proven ability to lead production support, incident/root-cause analysis, releases, testing, implementation, and application changes; assess cross-system impacts

• Coach developers; manage risks/dependencies; and support Agile, change controls

• Should be able to support security, audit, resource planning, documentation, cross-training, and succession planning.

Workstyle

• This is an onsite job. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.

Visa sponsorship issues

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

Relocation assistance

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401(K) Plan with company match + additional contribution

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development Programs

Additional Offerings:

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.