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Verticality Ltd

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Senior Development Manager

Location: Knutsford-Cheshire

Salary: Very competitive Salary with bonus and benefits.

As a Development Manager you will be working for a large UK Software house. This is a permanent position to work within the financial and Legal solutions software field. This is a great opportunity for an existing Software Development Manager or a Senior Software Development Lead with Management skills to progress your career with this leading software house.

Key Duties:

You will manage remote onshore and offshore teams of software engineers. Constantly work to improve knowledge of the product for yourself and your team whilst understand the technical implications of changes to your product. Ownership of revision and estimates ensuring reporting of changes to senior management whilst working with Architects and BA`s to ensure requirements are complete (where possible) and detailed designs developed prior to coding beginning.

Work with development leads to ensure that plans include writing and executing of unit tests for all functionality churn in the product, Hold regular team meetings to ensure team members are fully appraised of the wide development picture, agreed milestones and deliver dates.

Develop and maintain detailed project plans and manage others with responsibility for parts of the plan, encouraging ownership and responsibility for updating the plan through regular meetings. Ensure critical path analysis is carried out to identify the areas of greatest risk
Report clearly on project status at agreed regularity, identifying any risk or issues in a timely fashion ensureing change control requests are estimated and when approved included in the release plans.

Essential Skills:

- Experience of managing teams of developers on and off shore utilising Microsoft technologies especially .NET, C#, SQL and ASP and ASP.NET.
- Experience of managing technically focused people and projects, ideally having experience in running more than one technical team or project concurrently.
- Knowledge and application of software quality assurance procedures - System, Unit, Black box etc -
- Understanding and application of Object Oriented design and development.
- Demonstrable experience of developing staff and measuring/improving performance, Estimating work accurately
- Experience of formal project management methodologies & development methodology/ framework, e.g. Waterfall, Agile etc.

Keywords: .NET, C#, SQL, ASP.NET, Waterfall, Agile, OOD, software manager, development manager, head of development , quality assurance, testing, team lead, management


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