Technical Leadership and Development Manager

6 days ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Akrivia Health Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Development Manager to lead our software development team while actively contributing to Python (and some Rust) development projects. This role is a unique combination of technical leadership and hands-on programming.

Key Responsibilities
  • Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of developers (currently around 8) to achieve high performance and continuous improvement through regular one-to-ones and performance reviews.
  • Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with other departments, such as product management, QA, and operations, to ensure alignment with business goals.
  • Recruitment and Onboarding: Assist in hiring, training, and onboarding new team members.
  • Performance Management: Conduct regular performance reviews, provide feedback, and create development plans for team members.
  • Process Improvement: Develop and enforce best practices for software development, including code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.
  • Sprint Planning and Retrospectives: Arrange and facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
Technical Contribution
  • Code Development: Write clean, scalable, and efficient Python code as part of ongoing projects.
  • Code Review: Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, security, and maintainability.
  • Design and Architecture: Contribute to the design and architecture of new features, ensuring alignment with technical and business goals.
  • Debugging and Optimization: Diagnose and fix bugs, optimize performance, and ensure the reliability of software systems.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with other developers to ensure integration and alignment of all components of the software.
About Us

Akrivia Health is a global leader in the application of real-world data and evidence for mental health and dementias. We provide valuable insights for research and have privileged access to one of the largest and richest repositories of psychiatric electronic health record data in the world.

We curate this database on behalf of a network of NHS mental healthcare organisations, providing a free secure data service to support research and care improvement in the NHS. With support from our NHS partners, we further anonymise this database for access by third parties, including academia, industry, charities, and government organisations.

This activity provides a source of sustainable revenue to support our NHS service offer, and brings the immense potential of EHR data to the global mental health and dementia research community.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status, genetic information, or parental status.



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