Development Manager

• An exciting opportunity for a seasoned software Development Manager to join the Access Group’s Health & Social Care (HSC) Division to lead and manage a highly successful, market leading SaaS Product. 
• Accountable for the strategic technical roadmap for the product, working with other teams to negotiate and influence product roadmaps to ensure continued success of the product. 
• Playing a key role as part of the HSC leadership team and contributing to driving forward its strategy across of all aspects of the dev cycle.
• Full end to end ownership from requirements through to deployment.
• Great people leader, able to ensure that remote teams feel part of The Access Group, remaining loyal and engaged.   This will include ensuring teams have the skills and behaviours to achieve their goals, coaching squad leaders and developing performance and talent.

• Manage resourcing and capacity against multiple workstreams, ensuring considerations for code management, quality activities and customer commitments are included. 
• Delivering against agreed scope and providing transparency on progress, risks and issues to the key stakeholders and forming resolution plans to bring projects back in line.
• Ensuring the quality and security of the products your teams build meet the required levels for software release and identifying any improvements needed.
• Lead, motivate, develop and manages the performance of the team to ensure that they have the skills and support to achieve their potential and meet the company’s needs.
• Ownership and accountability to establish your own product strategy to move the development team forward, identifying improvements in people, architecture, quality and processes.
• Building a high performing team through recruitment opportunities and your own leadership capabilities to deliver on the market potential of this product for the future.
• Commercial awareness working with the product team and engagement with customers as needed to ensure what is built delivers the value and in dealing with any priority escalations.
• Use programming experience to provide technical guidance, clear thinking and pragmatic decision-making; leading & mentoring developers to make better decisions & credible delivery plans.

• You demonstrate motivational leadership and drives high performance teams, ensuring they are equipped to achieve success within their roles. Uses process, tooling and engagement techniques to get the best from teams.
• You are an excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible, pragmatic & consultative approach. Can deliver challenging messages in a positive and pragmatic approach.
• You have a strong tactical delivery and planning focus, able to lead agile development teams and projects to the successful delivery of requirements. 
• You have a good understanding of various technologies, data structures, development best practice and Object-Oriented Design principles and their application to problem solving, with a background in .NET & SQL development. 
• You use metrics, analysis and engagement feedback to understand and improve operational efficiency. You pro-actively identify areas for improvement for the team(s) and prioritise according to risk and commercial factors.
• You are able to guide development teams by asking right questions that helps them better understand the problem they need to solve.
• You can make and own hard decisions when it’s the right thing to do, showing courage and calmness in challenging circumstances. 
• You demonstrate pragmatism and a high level of flexibility.

• Have experience of leading a technical team, with evidence of consistent successful delivery.
• Have demonstrable experience working on several projects and technologies including building and designing a CI/CD solution, migrations of applications to services to cloud.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a team to deliver complex high quality software development projects, to bring commercial value
• Have demonstrable experience managing offshore development teams and partners, including commercial experience associated to this.

• A Competitive Salary
• Giving Back/Charity days
• Quarterly Socials
• 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service)
• The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain