Head of Software Delivery

4 weeks ago


Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Arco Full time

**About The Role**:
Are you ready to lead the charge in revolutionising software delivery? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation is key? We’re now recruiting for a Head of Software Delivery, so if this sounds like you, get in touch

Our Head of Software Delivery will ensure our highly skilled Delivery Managers, Software Engineering teams and QA teams are following best practice, whilst ensuring they have the correct tools and training in place to support product development, all whilst managing software delivery to required quality, time and budget.

This role is a hybrid position, with a mix of remote working, and office-based days (2 or 3 days a week) from our head office in Hull.

Key responsibilities include:
Leadership and Strategy
- Leading the software engineering organisation to successful delivery of business outcomes and managing the software engineering budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.
- Building strong working relationships with business leaders to ensure software engineering teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.
- Collaborating with IT and business leaders to develop short
- and long-term strategic plans and providing leadership, vision, and direction for the software engineering organisation
- Working with product management leadership to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps

Talent Management
- Developing workforce strategy to meet the organisation’s current and future software engineering needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent
- Managing software engineering talent, playing a key role in performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Oversight of Software Engineering
- Managing the software delivery to quality, time and budget
- Championing best practices and modern software development methods, tools and automation
- Leading software engineering teams and other stakeholders to set goals for improving code quality, maintainability, security, and scalability and monitoring progress against these goals
- Implementing and managing software development status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks.
- Managing the expectations and performance of third-party engineering partners working alongside stakeholders to ensure feasibility, accuracy, and completeness
- Developing and cascading engineering development objectives in line with the business strategy.
- Developing our people within the Engineering teams through coaching and support to achieve their full potential
- Leading the recruitment and development of the Software Engineers, QA’s and Delivery Managers to ensure we are building the correct skills and capacity for the future

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

- A competitive starting salary plus up to 17% annual bonus and car allowance
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days (pro rata for part time) every year
- An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards - we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

The ideal Head of Software Delivery will be/have:

- Strong leadership skills and experience
- Strong talent management skills including talent development, coaching, mentoring, and team motivation
- Ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships at all levels of the organisation
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing
- Strong organisational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources
- Understanding of software development methodologies and best practices
- A good understanding of agile and waterfall project management principles
- Understanding of relevant tools and platforms (e.g. cloud platforms, web technologies, client-server technologies, continuous integration and deployment), with an eagerness to learn about new and unfamiliar technologies
- Adaptability and ability to manage rapid change in business needs, processes, or technologies

**About Us**: With almost 140 years of experience, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life ind



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