Head of Software Development
- Employer
- Blue Personnel Limited
- Location
- London, South East
- Salary
- From £650 to £750 per day
- Closing date
- 9 Dec 2020
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- Sector
- Technology
- Responsibilities
- Analyst, Information Technology
- Position/Level
- Professional / Specialist
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Language
- English
Head of Software Development
24-Month Contract - London - Government Body (OUTSIDE IR35)
A Head of Development required to provide development leadership of a Programme, in accordance with the GDS Agile methodology. This will include leading and being the Point of Contact for the Development Practice, providing guidance and standards across the programme.
Looking for a Head of Development specialist is required to provide development leadership for the Programme, in accordance with the GDS Agile methodology. This will include leading and being the Point of Contact for the Development Practice, providing guidance and standards across the programme.
Working on:
- Development of efficient, proportionate and accessible digital services to enable access to justice via appropriate modern channels
- Delivering a more efficient and improved service. For the first time, criminal case information will be kept together in one place.
Key Essential skills and experience:
- Demonstrate your experience of building and leading development capabilities to support programme delivery in a multi-vendor landscape, within the last 5 years
- Demonstrate your experience of developing and owning Development process outputs, and presenting these through senior management meetings and governance boards
- taking ownership and setting direction for delivery teams to comply with Development constraints and guidelines, within a wider programme
- developing Software Development Standards documents within the last 5 years, specifically in an Agile, Java and Open Source delivery
- led a large group of Developers to create a single integrated application within a large-scale Agile delivery
- Demonstrate experience of managing branching and merging with a single code base from multiple release trains to ensure regular releases via a single release/deployment pipeline
- Demonstrate experience of implementations using Java, Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing and 3rd party interfaces/integrations within the last 5 years
- Demonstrate experience of developing the principles, standards, ways of working and standard operating procedures and roadmaps consistent with best practice, including using DDD
- Demonstrate experience in wider software development, eg CICD, DevOps
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