Head of Apps & Dev - Inside IR35 - London

Posted 10 April by Adecco
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Head of Applications and Development

Rate - £850 (a day)

Duration - 3 months (Initially)

Location - London (Hybrid)

IR35 - INSIDE (Must be via an Umbrella Company)

As our Head of Applications & Development, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our software landscape and systems strategy. Your expertise will assist in delivering our digital transformation programme, ensuring reliable and effective technology solutions.

You're accountable for:

  • Lead our Application & Development teams:
  • Software development and supporting teams for ERP & Case Management
  • Technical Application support & Development
  • IA/ML
  • Knowledge Management
  • Analysing business requirements and collaborating with partnership organisations to recommend software solutions, and evolving capabilities that will deliver organisational goals.
  • Owning & delivering the demand, development cycle for our case management systems, focusing on performance and quality
  • Overseeing the performance of our Application Ecosystem, working with Transformation and business partners to develop a transparent and clear technical roadmap, underpinned by business benefits
  • Developing technical controls and engagement structures for development cycles, Ensuring that projects adhere to design specifications, implementation requirements, and quality standards.
  • Assist in coordination and planning for our cross functional engineering resources, including Product Discovery, Delivery, QA, and DevOps
  • Managing external support partners, system specialists, Testing teams, and develop partnerships: providing guidance, mentorship, and performance evaluation.
  • Develop & communicate a plan to optimise and the use of our Cloud system landscape
  • Collaborate with other leaders within Casework Product and Supporting systems to grow and evolve our engineering Governance, tools, and processes
  • Foster a culture of best practices in all aspects of software engineering including delivery of benefits, development costs, potential revenue, and associated risks
  • Demonstrate an unwavering commitment to the highest quality in delivery of system change and test
  • Creating and managing budgets to ensure projects and systems stay within financial parameters
  • Own our software risk management process and remediation plans
  • Working with our Security teams ensure we minimise risk, maturing Cyber and Information Governance, system controls

Your experience includes:

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field is typically required.
  • 5 years + track record of building and managing successful software delivery teams, particularly in Azure Dynamics.
  • Demonstrated ability to create application development strategies founded on agile principles, and effectively execute initiatives to mature and develop teams in adoption
  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise systems integration and best practices in the context of cloud platforms application development, with Expert Proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Demonstrable experience working with enterprise architecture and interface design, proven success in translating architectural design into complex software solutions
  • Experience in managing programmes to deliver machine learning and business process automation
  • Experience in working within the Finance & Legal sectors preferred
  • Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen customer focus, capable of presenting technical solutions to customer, investors and other stakeholders.

Required skills

  • Head of Apps/Azure/Dynamics/Development/Lead/Finance/Banking

Reference: 52449928

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