Head of Software Development

4 days ago


ShorehambySea, United Kingdom Broadreach Recruitment Ltd. Full time

We are looking for a seasoned software lead to join a growing telecoms company and spearhead their agile development ecosystem.
You will be responsible for collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to define needs and expectations and then form a strategy and direct, lead and grow a team of engineers to enhance and scale the company's product offering.
The Head of Software Development role ensures software development activities are delivered efficiently, on-time and to scope. The role provides leadership and line management to a team of in-house developers and ensure appropriate processes, toolsets and governanceare implemented. The role required the holder to manage and prioritise multiple simultaneous work streams, operating to tight schedules in a demanding environment, eliminating barriers and delivering on time and to budget.
**Principal Responsibilities/Duties**:

- Technical Delivery Management
- Ensure that the development team have appropriate specifications, direction and resources to deliver effectively
- Deliver plans on schedule and to expectations, managing exceptions proactively to minimise slippage or overruns
- Work with business stakeholders to ensure business outcomes are effectively met by delivering software in a predictable manner taking account of commercial impact.
- Guide and monitor 3rd party (outsourced) software development as required Mentoring and Staff Development
- Lead & motivate teams, support career development objectives of team members and identifying appropriate training or coaching options
- Identify future technology or skill needs for the team and plan how these can be introduced

**Essential Skills**:

- Prior management experience within software development environment
- Prior experience transforming a development function - ideally within an Agile environment
- Builds and maintains effective contacts with key business stakeholders
- Leads and inspires a development team, maintaining open and honest communications
- Experience building and growing capability within a team, including previous experience of handling employee reviews, consultations, and improvement plans
- Technically adept - development experience within a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) would be ideal
- Monitoring and reporting on progress to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Able to work in complex environments, dealing with ambiguity

**Desired Skills**:

- Agile sprint planning and leadership/delivery
- Experience in working in an agile development team (scrum)
- Experience of billing systems (Telecoms, MSP, ICT)
- Experience of customer management systems
- Experience with Laravel
- Process development
- Legacy platform modernisation
- Application/microservices encapsulation via containerisation
- 3rd party integration and APIs



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