Software Development Manager

TRR have been commissioned to identify a Software Development Manager to join a financial service client based in Leicestershire on a permanent basis. The role offers 50/50 hybrid work and has an excellent package with a starting base salary of £60 - £70k. 

Job Role: The Software Development Manager will be responsible for leading a team of developers to design, develop, and maintain software solutions. This role requires strong technical skills, leadership abilities, and project management experience.
  
Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop the software development team, ensure the team have up to date training and skills required for their roles.
• Mentor and coach team members to foster their professional growth.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions and prioritize development tasks. Provide status reports and updates as required.
• Participate in wider IT and change initiatives.
• Manage the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment, blending Agile and Waterfall workload techniques as required.
• Establish and maintain coding standards in line with best practices. Ensure the standards are adhered to.
• Ensure that the change controls policies and standards are adhered to, about software development and deployment.
• Develop and maintain documentation covering the design and maintenance of software solutions.
• Provide out of hours code deployment as and when required according to impact and risk.
• Manage risks and controls for the development service in line with the Risk Control Self Assessment framework.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development.
• 75/80% Hands Off 25/20% Hands On

  
Experience Required:

• Line Management experience
• Strong stakeholder management
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong workload prioritisation and management skills
• Ability to communicate with, and influence, internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to manage projects in a blended Agile/Waterfall environment.
• A proven ability to evolve/transition legacy systems into modern fit for purpose solutions, reverse engineering solutions where necessary.
• Development knowledge in the Microsoft technology stack – WISA, VS.NET, SSIS, TSQL
• knowledge in Microsoft Azure technology stack – Dynamics, Power Platform, Azure SQL, Dataverse
• Experience with middleware and API integration solutions.
• Strong understanding of application and communication protocol security.
• Experience designing and developing resilient enterprise level solutions.
• Experience with supplier management.

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