Head of Research And Development
6 days ago
Tech Lead - Hybrid - Brighton
Profectus Recruitment are looking for an innovative and commercially aware leader with strong technical expertise to drive our clients development team forward. This role involves leading and coaching the team to deliver high-quality outcomes while shaping and advancing business and product strategy.
Reporting to the Managing Director, the Technical Lead will be part of the senior leadership team, overseeing product development, quality, and infrastructure. They need a hands-on leader who can think strategically, collaborate across the business, and enhance their market presence while driving adoption of their solutions.
With a strong understanding of software development, you will manage all development activities while remaining hands-on, contributing to the codebase, and leading a team of three developers. The client are transitioning from a legacy on-premise system to a cloud-native solution, and this role is crucial in defining, validating, and executing this transformation.
The ideal candidate will have experience throughout the full software development lifecycle, a track record of delivering products to market, and the ability to motivate and develop a team while building strong relationships with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a high-performing R&D team, ensuring continuous training and effective performance management.
- Collaborate as part of the senior management team, driving results and delivering on corporate goals.
- Remain hands-on in development within an agile environment.
- Innovate and improve products to meet evolving customer needs.
- Design robust, scalable solutions, integrating with third-party software and hardware.
- Maintain deep technical knowledge of company systems and lead architectural discussions.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of design processes, methodologies, and standards.
- Analyze software requirements, assess implementation impacts, and ensure technical accuracy.
- Review and test code, optimize performance, and refactor when needed.
- Provide accurate time estimates, meet deadlines, and ensure product releases are on schedule.
- Support team development by sharing expertise and fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing.
Skills & Experience:
- Extensive experience in software development and product management, ideally in a vertical software market.
- Proven experience architecting complex, high-performing applications.
- Management experience in a software environment.
- Familiarity with the following technologies is desirable: Selenium, DevOps.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server.
If you feel you could be suitable please apply for consideration.
Seniority levelDirector
Employment typeFull-time
Job functionInformation Technology
IndustriesTechnology, Information and Media
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