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The thing that makes your position so important in Equator, is that you are an experienced people manager capable of directing and motivating the development team to create better work than they thought they were capable of.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Leadership
* Develop close, trusting relationships with Business Unit Leaders, senior team, and other department heads, ensuring development excellence principles are integrated into processes and outputs.
* Create a success and quality model within the team, ensuring all members understand their roles and contributions towards successful client and business outcomes.
* Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to evolve service offerings, encouraging innovative thinking through research activities.
* Establish training plans to develop transformation consultancy skills among key team members.
* Promote services and capabilities via thought leadership outputs.
* Ensure team outputs meet the brief, exceed client expectations, and adhere to best practices.
* Present findings, insights, and suggestions to directors, senior managers, or clients as appropriate.
* Discover and implement innovative work improvements.
* Motivate and drive the development team to succeed.
1. Performance
* Define, share, and monitor personal performance targets for all team members.
* Create and maintain a robust team structure with appropriate oversight and support.
* Ensure tooling and processes support secure, robust solutions.
* Work with Compliance, Legal, and IT to escalate issues swiftly (security incidents, breaches, vulnerabilities).
* Plan and support Disaster Recovery testing and reporting.
* Maintain departmental certifications (OWASP, ISO27001, ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, PCI-DSS).
* Develop departmental partnership plans and ensure training requirements are met.
* Encourage ownership of outputs, emphasizing timely, quality, and secure delivery.
* Continuously evaluate capabilities against industry trends; ensure training and certifications are current.
* Collaborate with operations and client teams for forecasts and resource planning.
* Oversee recruitment, contractor, and partner programs to meet capacity demands.
* Coordinate with Head of Compliance and IT for Information Security Management System standards.
* Monitor team leave to maintain capacity and capability year-round.
* Support Business Development through pre-sales and pitches.
* Maximize profitability via high performance and quality.
2. Management
* Manage a team of 35 Software Engineers, Testers, and Architects.
* Mentor, motivate, and support team members' growth.
* Handle recruitment with approval from Business Unit Leaders.
* Manage team performance, providing recognition and addressing issues promptly.
* Create Personal Development Plans and support achievement.
* Conduct regular appraisals and one-on-ones.
* Set clear, measurable goals, review regularly, and at appraisals.
* Assist team and department management with appraisals, objectives, and performance issues.
* Develop team skills aligned with business objectives.
* Ensure daily timesheet completion.
* Analyze team billability and productivity, ensuring targets are met or exceeded.
* Support the new business team with proposals and presentations.
The Ideal Candidate
* Experience in growing teams, including expansion for new capabilities.
* Proven track record in delivering transformative business systems.
* Experience reviewing and onboarding new technologies aligned with strategy.
* Experience evolving department systems and processes with KPIs and outcomes.
* Focus on quality, including managing an integrated QA team.
* Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and clients.
* Skills to pitch to prospective clients.
* Team performance management experience—setting SMART objectives.
What's in it for you?
We offer a secure future with benefits like pension scheme with 10% matching, 34+ days holiday, free gym membership or contribution, private healthcare, mental health support, cycle-to-work scheme, enhanced parental leave, social events, and long-term service rewards.
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