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Salary: Up to £80,000 Location: Manchester
Development Lead
Salary up to £80,000
Location
Manchester
Purpose
To manage the team of developers supported by analysis, development, test, and delivery management skills in assuring that the features that the team builds are valuable and at a high level of quality. To derive metrics that allow schedule predictions to be made with a good understanding of the fidelity. To assure the team has the appropriate skills, process, and practice to achieve a successful outcome. To manage the professional development of the team of developers. This individual will report to our Head of Engineering Payroll as well as matrix reporting into the Associate Director Payroll.
Reports to
Head of Engineering Payroll
Day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to the below:
Responsibilities
You will work closely with the Head of Engineering Payroll and Senior Payroll Product Manager to manage the delivery approach of our new Payroll services in the market. Your responsibilities will include, however are not limited to:
* Taking ownership for the end-to-end payroll solutions, managing the delivery of new features, maintaining, and improving of the solutions and plan for future demand.
* Identifying opportunities for improved development practice, implement and communicate beyond your team.
* Supporting the product owner in identifying technology (or business) risk and plan for how to analyse and mitigate.
* Managing the strategy for reducing dependencies between the solutions to ensure the smooth running of operations.
* Ensuring your line reports have clear objectives that are aligned with departmental objectives and their own career aspirations.
* Overseeing the development of team member skills to support their career aspirations, setting short- and long-term goals to improve their core skills to enhance them further.
* Identifying and interviewing suitable people to be part of the development team when there are opportunities within the team.
* Researching industry trends, identify tools, technicians or technologies that will benefit your competency.
* Providing coaching for the competencies in your team.
* Maintaining and improve software quality for features built (TDD, Pairing, Peer Review, Static Analysis).
* Supporting the product owner in the provisioning of estimates that are at an appropriate level of fidelity for the phase in the development lifecycle.
* Support the BA in the elaboration of requirements.
* Support the QA in identifying describing and resolving defects.
* Exhibit cross functional behaviour and support improving other competencies within your team.
Key Requirements Key Competencies And Attributes
* Experience of leading a software delivery team to delivery business ideas into production as high-quality working software.
* Experience of line managing direct reports and supporting them to meet their career aspirations.
* Still hands on regarding development practices, being able to lead by example in terms of developing solutions.
* A strong development background utilising back-end technologies including C# Azure Functions / Framework / SQL Server and/or front-end development in React or similar.
* Experience working and building solutions within Azure. Desirable Logic Apps.
* Able to communicate a complicated problem accurately and coherently to a team with different skill sets.
* Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency, and longer-term maintenance costs.
* Strong leader able to motivate and inspire a broad technology team.
* Ensure that the initiative has a coherent Definition of Done and that your features are met.
* Propose new technology, process, or tooling to improve efficiency being aware of the future maintenance costs and consistency across other product teams.
BrightHR Benefits
* Enhanced holidays 25 days increasing to 27 after 2 years service and 28 after 5 years service (22 Days for Field Sales)
* Private health care cover after 5 years service
* New business referral scheme
* Access to Health Shield
* Access to the EAP service
* Refer a friend scheme
* Paid birthday leave
* Pension scheme contribution increasing to 5% after 5 years service and again to 7% after 7 years service
* Group life insurance
* Eye care contribution
* Free fruit (office-based staff)
* Travel Season Ticket loan scheme
* Milestone recognition
* Discounted products Manchester City centre parking (AO Arena) / First Bus Travel Club Membership / Microsoft Home User programme / Anglian Home Improvements
* Pace health Club (situated in the park Inn) discounted gym membership and spa treatments
* Park Inn 20% food and drink discount
* New Century 20% food and drink discount
* Revolution De Cuba 20% food and drink discount
* Cycle 2 Work scheme* after probationary period
* On site Gym
* Bright Exchange perks
Values & Behaviours
* Living the company values of We care, We take action, we innovate, we inform, and we do the right thing
* We lead by example and recognise those living our values
* We drive the narrative by inspiring and engaging our team
* We collaborate with rigor and embrace diversity of thought
* We deliver with a united voice
* We take ownership by staying close to team performance by Super Coaching and Walking the Walk
* We keep our approach simple and stick to the playbook to deliver on promise
* We think critically and commercially, assess the situation before jumping to the solution
We are BrightHR; the only software powered by HR, health & safety, and legal experts. Everything you need to simply manage your staff, all in one place, PLUS free tools to set your business apart.
We are on a mission to transform people management for businesses. Weve been making life easier for employers since 2015 with our range of innovative software, are providing HR, H&S, and business support to over 95,000 businesses globally.
We are a people business. The market moves quickly and so do we. We put the customer first, working hard and always looking ahead, purposefully innovating to ensure peace of mind.
BrightHR is an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, committed to diversity and inclusion without regard to protected characteristics.
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