Development Manager at Flash Group

Description

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Manage progress and sprint planning across teams
• Lead and manage the Software Development and IT teams to deliver software and infrastructure
• Ensure delivery consistent with Agile processes across the team
• Collaborating with the appropriate functions and users to evaluate and identify technology platforms for delivering the company’s products and internal services
• To drive consistent standards and approaches throughout the development teams
• Work with system architects to evolve and improve business orchestration APIs
• Work closely with Solutions Architects, Team Leads and Technical Integrations team to deliver on business requirements
• Provide work estimates based on analyzed business and technical requirements
• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues
• Responsible for ensuring work is unit/integration tested and documented
• Management of staffing and HR requirements
• Assisting in out of hours’ production releases when required, as well as out-of-hours support when necessary
• Providing real-time, ongoing coaching and feedback to team members throughout the year
• On-time completion of performance management activities including regular 1:1s and Bi-annual performance reviews through GPS
• Supporting employee development including facilitation of career development conversations and crafting development plans for current and future needs
• Taking action to hire and retain high-performers and address poor performance
• Proactively manage change initiatives within the team including sufficient planning/ preparation and communication to minimise disruption and support employee adoption.
• Role modelling the behaviors that support and drive the Flash culture and values

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in software development
• Have a minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in a management role
• Experience in leading and mentoring developers
• Be passionate about technology, enthusiastic about problem solving, and constantly seeking to learn and improve skillset.
• Have had exposure to the full software development lifecycle

Analysis and Design

• Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns.
• Sound understanding of system infrastructure and principles of system architecture
• Understanding of Microservices, REST and MVC driven web frameworks.

Leadership Skills

• Strong and proven leadership qualities
• Excellence in communication -  Ability to communicate about technology in non-technical terms to colleagues and Clients.
• Sound experience working in Agile methodologies
• Versed in DevOps methodology including setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Experienced in staff management (including KPI and skill/growth management)
• Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure

Skills 

• Strong Java Spring Boot (Java / J2EE)
•  Wide-ranging experience using Java tech stacks and other programming languages.
• Strong experience in RESTful web services
• Strong experience with Relational DBMS, MSSQL
• Experience with microservices architecture and design
• Solid experience in code reviews and managing pipelines.
• CI/CD pipelines

Advantageous

• C# .Net Core
• Kotlin Spring Boot
• Identity Server authentication
• Experience with PHP, React, Angular, Blazor
• Familiar with Cloud Native architecture

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Manage progress and sprint planning across teams
• Lead and manage the Software Development and IT teams to deliver software and infrastructure
• Ensure delivery consistent with Agile processes across the team
• Collaborating with the appropriate functions and users to evaluate and identify technology platforms for delivering the company’s products and internal services
• To drive consistent standards and approaches throughout the development teams
• Work with system architects to evolve and improve business orchestration APIs
• Work closely with Solutions Architects, Team Leads and Technical Integrations team to deliver on business requirements
• Provide work estimates based on analyzed business and technical requirements
• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues
• Responsible for ensuring work is unit/integration tested and documented
• Management of staffing and HR requirements
• Assisting in out of hours’ production releases when required, as well as out-of-hours support when necessary
• Providing real-time, ongoing coaching and feedback to team members throughout the year
• On-time completion of performance management activities including regular 1:1s and Bi-annual performance reviews through GPS
• Supporting employee development including facilitation of career development conversations and crafting development plans for current and future needs
• Taking action to hire and retain high-performers and address poor performance
• Proactively manage change initiatives within the team including sufficient planning/ preparation and communication to minimise disruption and support employee adoption.
• Role modelling the behaviors that support and drive the Flash culture and values