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Head of Development

Employer
Anglo Technical Recruitment
Location
London, WC2N 5DU
Salary
£800.00 per day
Closing date
1 Dec 2021

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Sector
Technology
Responsibilities
Analyst
Position/Level
Professional / Specialist
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English
Our government client are currently looking for a Head of Development to join their team on a new contract.

Contract Length: To 31st March 2022

Location: Remote
IR35: Inside

Pay Rate to Candidate: Umbrella: £800 per day

Main roles and responsibilities

1. Scope, design, plan and execute software development projects. Be responsible for the technical delivery, on-going success and continuous improvement to our portfolio of web and mobile apps

2. Help develop and support services by contributing code, testing technologies, and producing rapid prototypes

3. Setup, configure and maintain DevOps tooling and to drive adoption of new tools so teams can improve their integration approaches

4. Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), Orchestration tools, TDD and code quality

5. Experience of cloud technologies (AWS/Azure), enterprise integration tools and extract, transformation and load (ETL) tools

6. Experience of delivering digital services in GOV using the GDS service standard

7. Enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices

8. Advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog

9. Provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring infrastructure is fit for purpose, whilst meeting time and budget restraints

10. Integrate software application components, whether developed internally or via external partners

11. Build and maintain technical roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by development teams align with the strategy

12. Leading, managing, and developing all direct reports, ensuring that Technology and UKHSA's culture and ways of working are embedded across the team

13. Experience of leading a team of 10 plus devops engineers.

The ideal principal devops engineer will have experience of;
Python
Go
React
JavaScript.

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