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Head of Development

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Head of Development

Posted over 1 year ago

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!

Our core value of ‘Love work, Love life’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day, to help us become a UK top 10 Software company driven through adoption of the Access Workspace platform.

Are you ready for the challenge?

 What are we all about?

At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more.

We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 40,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive.

 

Role-specific:

We now have a very exciting opportunity in our Recruitment (REC) Division.  Access is organised on a divisional basis, where each division typically targets a particular industry vertical and has its own MD and leadership team representing functions such as Development, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Services..  As the Head of Engineering for the Division, you will lead an engineering team of 70+ people to deliver on our vision and growth strategy.

Day-to-day:

  • Part of the Divisional Product Development Leadership Team, responsible for the management of the software development & delivery for the Vietnam area, contributing to the achievement of growth and client satisfaction targets. Taking a holistic view to support Corporate as well as Divisional objectives.
  • Use in-depth understanding and appreciation of agile software development best practices, customer problems, collaboration through virtualised/distributed teams and the competitive landscape along with research and metrics to  inform decisions & approaches.
  • Shape & manage the delivery of solutions for the Division, formulating pragmatic technical strategies, robust processes, credible & reliable forecasts, team development/progression and operational excellence.
  • Help to define and communicate a compelling vision and strategy to the Vietnam team, ensuring a progressive, reliable and efficient production capability, aligned to the divisional roadmaps and commercial goals.
  • Work with the Development Director to understand the company portfolio, contribute to the overall product strategy, integration and cross sell opportunities.
  • Responsible for the management, development, progression and operational capability of the Vietnam Development teams, including training, appraisals, employee engagement, discipline, recruitment, retention & attrition.
  • Lead, motivate, develop and manage the performance of the Vietnam team to ensure that they have the skills and support to achieve their potential and meet the company’s needs.

About you:

  • You have worked with a western, preferable UK company before and must have experience working in an international company
  • You demonstrate excellent leadership, motivation and team development skills, able to cross boundaries and collaboratively drive excellence through positive change. Your cohesive leadership ensures development teams are aligned across the department
  • You are an excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible & consultative approach.
  • You can think strategically whilst achieving results in immediate area of responsibility and drive strategic and change initiatives to success.
  • You can think creatively and exploit best practice, emerging technologies and fast-paced innovation.
  • You are able to adapt to a changing business and marketplace, demonstrable ability to takes a holistic view to support Corporate as well as departmental strategic objectives and underwrites production excellence through KPIs and best practice across the group. 
  • You are pragmatic, objective, resilient, transferrable, balanced, and able to navigate and manage divisional contention to the benefit of the group. 

 

Your core competencies will include:

  • Excellent leadership, motivation and team development skills – across multiple teams & locations -  able to cross boundaries and collaboratively drive positive change up & down the chain of command.
  • Excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible & consultative approach.
  • Ability to think strategically whilst achieving results in own Divisions with consideration for the wider company strategy and objectives.
  • Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle and delivery, and able to deliver complex projects across multiple workstreams to time, budget and quality
  • Commercial experience and a sound understanding of agile software development practices in a scaled production environment.
  • The ability to adapt to a changing business and marketplace.
  • Demonstrable ability to drive operational excellence and efficiency across multiple teams and locations, promoting best practice standards and approaches, effecting change where appropriate to achieve results.

 

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

 

 

Become part of our amazing Access family!