Job Description
Head of Software Development - Contract - Central Government
- Inside IR35
- 12 months
- £800/£850 per day
Essential skills & experience
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:
o Java
o Event-based, microservice architectures
o TDD
o CI/CD
o Openshift
o 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 skills & experienc
Experience with:
* Securing software applications
* Securing an IT estates
