Description:
The IT Systems Development Team Leader will lead the Application Development team, which supports, delivers upgrades, and introduces new products in line with the Business demand.
This is a full time, permanent position, based onsite in Peterhead. Flexible working arrangements are available for doing a compressed working week option (nine day fortnight).
Primary Responsibilities:
Team Leadership
- Manages the Team to develop and support business applications, solutions and platforms.
- Develops a Team that has the appropriate skills, tools and needed to create, enhance and configure products and services in line with appropriate methodologies and agreed standards.
- Builds a culture of continuous improvement across the Team, including advancements to software development methods, growing & strengthening Team skills through targeted learning, promoting excellence through quality & robustness of deliverables and improving delivery turnarounds.
Applications Management and Development
- Ensures the appropriate environments and processes are in place to enable all development and testing to be carried out without impacting Production environments.
- Governs Team system, component & process documentation.
- Defines and enhances methodologies and practices for the application life cycle management in line industry standards and practical experience of continuous improvement.
- Develops and manages a detailed transition and implementation approach to minimise operational disruption.
- Implements Agile, ITIL and DevOps frameworks and ensures Team processes, roles and responsibilities align to these methodologies.
- Leads and assures the implementation of the organisation’s Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), embedding recognised industry secure development practices and security risk assessment throughout system and application development to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
- Responsible for ensuring that sufficient testing of solutions has taken place to minimise any disruption during transition to live
- Manages relationships with business stakeholders, vendors and service providers to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organisation.
Behaviours/Skills/Experience
- Team management
- Ability to drive prioritisation
- Communication and negotiation
- Excellent understanding and awareness of technology.
- Knowledge and experience of Cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) .
- Effective stakeholder engagement .
- Communication and negotiation
- Can visualise Business needs and requirements .
- Knowledge of development techniques and programming language s.
- Desirable DevOps experience .
- Good understanding of infrastructure & application landscapes.
- Proven track record in Service Introduction & Integration, Demand Management and Change Delivery .
- Strong familiarity with quality and risk management concepts, reporting and monitoring.