Head of Software Development

Head of Software Development required by a market leading, award winning, professional services organisation based in Gloucester.

The Head of Software Development will lead multiple teams developing and maintaining quality. You will need a proactive approach and ideally have come from a hands-on background in more than one technology area, but importantly you’ll have kept up to date as you moved into management.

Main Responsibilities:

• Take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of all software development services.
• Ensure solutions provided are high-quality, secure, and business focussed.
• Develop the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring rapid, first-time-right deployments across all teams.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver best practices across the business.
• Engage with project teams and stakeholders to deliver software on time and specification.

Ideal Background:

• Excellent leadership, team management, and mentoring skills.
• A hands-on software development background covering multiple disciplines:
  • Web/NodeJS/React/Angular
  • Salesforce
  • AWS
• Significant experience with CI/CD implementation and other DevOps practices.
• Delivery of automated testing approaches.
• Familiarity with multiple project/engineering approaches, including extensive scrum experience.
• Solid understanding of Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
• Knowledge of security best practices and intrinsically secure coding approaches.
• High EQ communication skills, with an ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• A preference for face-to-face communication and a blend of office/hybrid working.
• Proven ability working with project managers, delivery teams, stakeholders and executives.

This fantastic role comes with a basic salary of £75,000-85,000 p/a and is accompanied with hybrid working, 25 days holiday (With the ability to buy & sell additional days), a healthcare plan, life assurance, a generous pension contribution, volunteering days, company discounts, cycle to work scheme and free onsite parking.

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