Description:
Our client is a market leader in Financial services looking to consolidate the IT Leadership team with a new Head of Engineering. The successful Head of Engineering is expected to work collaboratively across key stakeholders, applying specialist knowledge and skills in the analysis, technical design and development of software changes to software applications solutions.
Our client is a market leader in Financial services looking to consolidate the IT Leadership team with a new Head of Engineering. The successful Head of Engineering is expected to work collaboratively across key stakeholders, applying specialist knowledge and skills in the analysis, technical design and development of software changes to software applications solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Providing technology leadership, including driving process improvements, driving automation of software releases, and having a key role in the ongoing development of the technology roadmap.
- Leading a culture that embraces the agile software development methodology and is continually striving for technical excellence and increased velocity.
- Mentoring, guiding, and managing the Software Development team effectively.
- Actively participating and contributing to working groups including architectural discussions and decisions.
- Taking ownership of ongoing improvement and enhancement of technical practices such as coding standards, secure coding, unit testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
- Minimizing the impact of software application issues on service availability and customer engagement.
- Driving a strong focus on continual improvement in practices, processes, tools, and technology in Engineering.
- Taking ownership of estimation of Engineering effort for all work types and all estimation levels.
Qualifications:
- Formal qualifications in a relevant discipline (i.e. IT, Computer Science or Engineering).
- Strong skills and demonstrated experience in Microsoft technology stack (e.g. C#, .NET and SQL Server).
- Proven experience operating effectively in an agile software development environment and exposure to the complete SDLC.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively elicit, interpret and translate processes and system information from stakeholders into complex technical solutions.
- Ability and willingness to work productively and collaboratively as a team member.
- Passion for investigating and evaluating emerging technologies in the services and database layer, with a focus on high performance and scalability.