Robert Half are working with a growing business in Bristol to recruit a Head of Software Development on a permanent basis.
You will report into the Technical Director and work closely with department heads and other senior stakeholders across the business to help optimise operational efficiency, levels of quality and creative and innovate use of technologies within the engineering department and wider organisation.
You should be passionate about technology and building effective engineering teams, have a logical and pragmatic mindset, outstanding communication skills and excellent industry knowledge and commercial awareness.
You are required to be a self-driven individual who can organise your time effectively, encourage a collaborative environment, demonstrate a flexible but methodical approach and provide direction, support and guidance to other members of the engineering team.
Role Responsibilities;
Your responsibilities as Head of Software Development are to:
- Build and support a high performing and positive engineering team
- Keep up to date with latest engineering and industry trends and technologies
- Encourage the team to think creatively about how they approach the work
- Optimise the development process to maximise quality and efficiency
- Ensure projects adhere to standards and industry best practice
- Produce and conduct development plans, objectives setting and annual appraisals
- Maintain a broad and extensive knowledge of software engineering practices processes and technologies
- Support the Marketing department with pitches, thought leadership through blog/news content and ideally be comfortable presenting in webinars and/or in-person events.
- Build and maintain relationships with the key technical contacts with clients.
- Provide technical consultancy to our clients and define suitable technical strategies and roadmaps to help them achieve their ambitions
- Work closely with the Technical Director to help shape the future technical strategy, service offerings and direction of the engineering department
Technical experience;
- C#, .NET
- Azure/AWS
- HTML, CSS (latest versions)
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- React
- Modern infrastructure architecture patterns (including on-premise, hybrid and cloud)
- Modern application architecture patterns
- Enterprise software development
- Experience of using DXPS / CMSs (e.g. Umbraco, Sitecore)
- Experience developing web applications
- Software security/privacy and data compliance best practices
- Performance optimisation and testing techniques
- Experience of working to Agile and Waterfall project delivery methodologies
- Understanding of standing of SEO and accessibility
Salary/Logistics;
- £90,000-£110,000 dependent on experience
- Hybrid working (1-2 days on site in Bristol per week)
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