Leading an engineering team (or teams) responsible for a set of associated services.
Driving team ownership of their services and the processes used to deliver them.
Ensuring the team’s people are set up for success, including hiring to introduce new talent and coaching team members to achieve their full potential.
Collaborating with partners in teams such as IT, Product, Operations and Security to plan future roadmaps, prepare initiatives and execute effectively.
Improving the team’s security posture and quality practices to maintain reliable and secure services.
Facilitating regular activities such as daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives and operational performance reviews.
Managing 24/7 support when necessary and rapid reaction to issues, including ensuring post incident actions are identified and completed efficiently.
Requirements
Experience successfully leading software development teams and knowledge of what appropriate models look like to set teams up for success.
Strong communication skills, being able to communicate effectively and influentially with IT teams, partners (such as Product and Operations) and stakeholders.
Good technical skills, with exposure to Azure, C#, SQL and related technologies or closely aligned alternatives.
People focused and skilled in coaching the team and individual team members to achieve a high level of performance.
A continuous improvement mindset, being able to identify opportunities and develop a strategy to improve team, processes and technical capabilities.
Good understanding of agile and lean development practices and how to apply these within a complex environment.
A good understanding of modern software development practices, including implementing CI/CD, managing cloud-based capabilities and improving delivery flow.
Benefits
42% of our senior management roles are held by women
Our enhanced family leave policies
Launching our partnership with Code First Girls
Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
C#SQLCI/CDcloud-based capabilitiesagile development practiceslean development practicessoftware developmentsecurity practicestechnical coachingcontinuous improvement