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Job Description

Join us as a Development Manager

• As a Development Manager, you’ll set the strategic direction of the team, supported by the senior technical members
• You’ll take responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of strategic and tactical projects, delivering agreed business outcomes and coordinating various technology and change teams to achieve this
• This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to share their subject matter expertise and help shape the future direction of the function
• We're offering this role at director level
  
  
  

What you'll do

We’ll look to you to be making sure that project deliverables can achieve customer goals, within a well-considered total cost of ownership, as well as making sure that the reputation of the bank is built, safeguarded, and kept foremost in the mind, while interacting with all stakeholders. You'll be responsible for leading software development feature teams, ensuring successful and high quality delivery. You'll also implement agile, devops, ways of working guidelines and CI/CD best practices to enhance efficiency and speed of the delivery and foster culture of innovation for the team.

You’ll also be:

• Making sure that work done is aligned to the principles of software development across the bank
• Delivering architectural and functional improvements that will have a positive impact on our technology estate and business
• Driving and contributing to the technology strategy roadmap
• Understanding and incorporating requirements originating from the programmes in which the project team is involved
• Influencing delivery plans and coordinating delivery across multiple projects and deliverables
  
  
  

The skills you'll need

Experience in defining and executing the software delivery strategy to align with business goals. Leading and managing development teams as well as knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycles and established software development methodologies will be required. We’ll also look for experience in driving change through to a successful conclusion and the ability to influence at all levels. Securitisation and Lending domain knowledge is a must.

You’ll also bring:

• Proven experience in influencing and implementing right technology architecture for the application. Have experience in delivering cloud solution of the application
• Having knowledge of Retail and corporate lending domain and should be able to effectively communicate and build trust with demanding stakeholders. Should always be in a situation to find solution
• Experience of working in a dynamic environment often with shifting priorities
• The ability to quickly understand and be familiar with complex systems
• Experience of delivering projects in geographically dispersed teams. Strong knowledge of project finances and reporting
• Should have excellent leadership, people management and mentoring skills. Should also have strong decision-making abilities