Head of IT Development
- Employer
- Pertemps Scotland
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Salary
- £670 - £770 per day
- Closing date
- 21 Oct 2020
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- Sector
- Technology
- Responsibilities
- Analyst, Information Management, Information Technology
- Position/Level
- Professional / Specialist
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Language
- English
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Head of IT Development
Pertemps Scotland Ltd are working with our client in Edinburgh to recruit for a Head of IT Development in the Public Sector on a temporary basis for 6 Months with potential extension.
Due to current circumstances this role will be based remotely.
D/R - £670 to £770 (Outside IR35)
The main duties would be:
- Lead, shape and develop multiple product domain aligned software development
- Teams to deliver solutions to:
- Allow customers to create applications that represent their registration intention
- Based on the structured data collected, automate the automatable parts of Dealings (DW) applications to significantly reduce the operational effort in the Intake and Settle processes
- Simplify the Transfer of Part (TP) and First Registration (FR) operational processes through embedded burdens in child titles, extracting text from historical Sasine deeds, and further process improvements
- Complete the development and rollout of the Organisations new mapping tools and spatial database such that the historic Digital Mapping System (DMS) is retired
- Migrate historic operational archives to the new organisations Cloud Archive
- Retire the historic on-premises archival systems
- Decouple the services Finance provides to operational products from the legacy finance system
- Replace and retire the Chancery and Judicial Registration (CAJR) Application with a serverless cloud-based design
- Complete discovery and design and commence the implementation of the Register of Controlling Interests (RoCI)
- Complete the Organisations migration to cloud-first design, development, and hosting through the introduction of a secure, governance-friendly platform supporting serverless, containers, and a robust CI/CD system
- Requirement for head of IT development
- Ensure new developments reduce the technical complexity of domain estate targeting reduction in the Organisations Product Sustainability Index of:
1. 50 points by January 2021
2. 130 points by April 2021
- Provide strong leadership and senior-level advocacy for the delivery of technology solutions that support the Organisations current and future business transformation
- Provide best practice guidance and planning in the implementation of product domain aligned development teams that are loosely coupled to other IT functions, take their direction from domain-aligned product managers, develop and support the products they create, and adhere to strong engineering and inclusive service design principles
- Provide effective and inspirational leadership of the Organisations software development teams, making sure there is coherence between the organisations' strategic objectives and the development activities prioritised
- Engage with stakeholders, including the leadership of Product, Service Design, Architecture, and Registration, to understand their requirements, and to agree priorities and technical solutions
- Discuss and gain agreement on the approach and implications of the outcomes with the Executive Management Team (EMT)
- Build and maintain a sustainable, high-quality digital estate
- Maintain a performance culture of continuous delivery and continuous improvement that is orientated to tangible delivery outcomes
- Maintain strong agile and lean practices across teams, making work visible, and objectives, motivations and roadmaps transparent
- Manage department budget, maintaining a culture of value for money, working collaboratively across boundaries to ensure that the Organisation maximises its strategic outcomes within the resources available
- Ensure the Organisations IT department has the exceptional talent to deliver its objectives, including:
- Recruitment of permanent colleagues
- Sourcing and management of contractors and 3rd party suppliers
Essential
Significant and demonstrable experience in the following areas:
- Leadership of a product domain aligned software development department of at
- least 10 teams and £20 million budget in an agile environment.
- Leading role in sustainable agile transformations over extended (multi-year) periods in more than one organisation.
- Servant-leading multiple high-performing, continuously delivering, cross-functional development teams in multiple environments including public sector
- Recruiting and building high-performing agile DevOps and software development teams
- Applying different agile and lean approaches and supporting context
- Agile product and software development using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive-design practices, and the enablers required, ideally within Digital First framework
- Software development, architecture and infrastructure in a forward-thinking agile organisation using:
- Java
- Event-based, microservice architectures
- TDD
- CI/CD
- Openshift
- AWS
- Implementing technology strategies and managing delivery of associated technical services, solutions, architectures and technologies
- Incrementally replacing enterprise legacy systems
- Developing and leading staff development and training programmes
- Coaching and mentoring
- Public sector procurement
- Managing budgets of ~£20 million
- Knowledge of the Scottish Land Registration process
Desirable
Experience with:
- Securing software applications
- Securing an IT estates
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