Software Development Manager

Job Description

You will lead a multi-skilled team to Create Great Digital Services for trustees and members of the public within an agile and matrix working environment. Managing resources, relationships, vendors and technology roadmaps ensuring capacity and skills fordelivery. Building a team through coaching and developing colleagues.aClient DetailsThe Charity Commission has set out their ambitious five-year strategy, being clear that they will be driven by their purpose to ensure that charity can thrive and inspire trust so that people can improve lives and strengthen society. Their purpose is bold,confident and so is their proud commitment to represent the public interest.The Charity Commission regulates 170,000 charities across England and Wales ensuring that they work within a legal framework , giving the public confidence that the £75bn spent by charities each year is put to good use.Description

• Lead our development teams in the design and implementation of a wide range of user facing products and experiences for our varied audiences. Continually Improving the predictability and effectiveness of strategically important software delivery.
• Actively Managing Digital Services during their lifecycle. Providing design and architectural options to key stakeholders, driving forward decisions and a longer term sustainable software architecture;
• Inspire and enable teams to create an agile culture of high performance, collaboration, and trust.
• Support our Agile project delivery methods by ensuring that teams are effective, productive, accountable and focused on business objectives
• Ensuring the utilisation of User Centred Design and data driven iteration.
• The identification of the resources needed for systems development and how this will be met with an effective supply capacity. Building the capacity and capability of the team.
• The alignment of systems development activity and deliverables with agreed architectures and standards. Working collaboratively with other members of the Architectural Review Board (ARB), actively participating, providing technical leadership and responsibilityfor maturing the ARB to support change management, projects, programme activity and long-term architectural roadmaps/planning.
• The development of technology roadmaps to communicate future systems development plans.
• Working with Application Support, Software Testing and Infrastructure to ensure sufficient environments are available to reduce blockages.
• Ensure the efficient adoption of live software by business colleagues, users and the Application Support team.
• Ensure all digital developments are delivered against GDS standards (and frameworks)
• Management of Software Development Partner including responsibility for their delivery and the identification & communication of risk.

Profile

• Able to ensure delivery momentum by solving issues and unblocking problems. Drives teams and sets the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments.
• Able to engage in elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks.
• Able to manage various dependencies across teams, departments and government as a whole.
• Able to communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context.
• Able to act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers.
• Experience of managing a Multidisciplinary software development team - experience of using a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road-mapping.
• Experience of creating and communicating the plan, planning assumptions and progress to a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of managing/Working with a 3rd party delivery partners and suppliers and their development teams.
• Experience of handling the delivery of multiple services and products simultaneously.
• Experience of backlog prioritisation / grooming
• Experience of measuring and evaluate outcomes and outputs.
• Experience of Resource Planning within a project and service delivery context.*
• Experience of Test and Data driven development.
• Experience of Agile development.
• Understanding of user centric.design and GDS service design standards.
• Knowledge of how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 factor in to software development and service build.

Job Offer

• £37,914 salary (PLUS possible IT allowance of £3697 for right candidate)
• Civil Service pension
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Employee assistance programme
• Interest free season ticket and bicycle loan after 2 months employment
• Special retail discounts and offers through membership of staff Perkbox scheme
• Flexible and family friendly working environment
• Learning and career development

Selection process: Candidates will be sifted on their CVs and experience against the job description. And at interview assessed on the following Civil Service Behaviours:

• Changing & Improving
• Managing a quality service
• Delivering at Pace

The full list of Civil Service behaviours at various levels can be found hereSecurity Clearance: This role will require you to go through SC clearance. Please request further info if required.* CLOSING DATE: Sunday 19th September 11:55pm *