Software Development Manager
2019-11-15 15:38:35
2020-06-22 23:59:59
- London, London Central
- £70,000 YEAR
- 22nd Jun ’20
- Closed
The Company
The client provides innovative, cost effective and clinically safe solutions to various NHS organisations. They have a range of exciting new solutions designed to help NHS hospitals produce high quality clinical correspondence and deliver them to patients, GPs and other healthcare professionals in a timely and cost effective manner. These include speech and audio recognition solutions, using artificial intelligence.
They are predicting aggressive growth in 2020, after partnering with a larger health-tech organisation and increasing their reach into the healthcare market.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to head up a fast-growing tech team as the software development manager.
The role will be focused on the management of the offshore development team to ensure their development aligns with the product development roadmap and that applications are scalable to support future demand.
The offshore team consists of 25-30 software developers, QA, DBAs, and technical analysts with an opportunity to manage an in-house team further into the role.
Their solutions range from cloud solutions to speech recognition apps, with more products in the pipeline.
The role will be predominately managerial, with some hands-on elements.
Further responsibilities include:
- Take ownership of non-functional requirements, in relation to application performance and security, to meet best practice
- Ensure comprehensive project and technical documentation is produced
- Coordinate release and sprint planning activities across multiple product workstreams
- Ensure good coding standards are met and maintained
- Collaborate with various project, operations and account management teams
- Provide input into strategic product direction
Essential skills
- 2 or more years' experience managing offshore development teams
- Experience with Agile methodology
- C#.Net programming experience
- Core software developer background
- Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks
Desired Skills
- React experience
- Python experience
- NHS or public sector experience