Head of Development
Responsibilities
• Management (through team leaders) of a development team comprising 31 developers, testers and sysadmins (a combination of contract and permanent)
• Working with the Operations Manager and the Product Manager to carry out release planning and associated resource planning and forecasting
• Day to day management of all on-going development (new releases covering both new features and fixes and patches covering critical fixes)
• Customer support management and prioritisation (including 24 x 7 support)
• Owning the agile development process and its on-going management and improvement
• Working with the Product Manager to define and agree functional requirements, technical solutions and estimates
• Working with the developers and technical architect to define technical solutions and overall technical direction
• Sales support including contributing towards bid responses and estimating and costing
• Recruitment (contract and perm staff)
• Administration and ensuring general alignment to corporate policies
Essential Knowledge and Experience:
• Hands-on background in software development or testing (not current but at some point)
• Significant experience managing a team using an agile methodology
• Experience managing multiple work streams (including both development and support) in a commercially focused organisation
• Experience managing multiple teams/team leaders (that is being one stage removed from the actual developers)
• Experience managing a team of at least 15-20 developers (we currently have 30 and it may grow)
Desirable Knowledge and Experience:
• Experience of Kanban
• Experience working with the Police (or other emergency service)
• Experience working with mobile (Android, Windows Phone, iOS)
• Numerate degree
Operations Manager
Technical
Programme Management/Project Management
Development Management
Customer Focus
Customer Facing
Someone who has maybe been a Branch Manager
Compliance
Recruitment
H&S
Production of KPI'S and Ops Reports
Any interested experienced and battle scarred candidates ?............................PM me
