Software Development Manager

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This company is comprised of a dynamic global team of over 3,000 experts across multiple countries. They are dedicated to developing innovative technology solutions that enhance customer experiences, cybersecurity, and business operations. There, individuals with diverse skills and experiences collaborate to address global challenges, making a real impact on people and the planet. It's a place where your career thrives with abundant opportunities to shape the future.

">What’s in it for you">

">Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary">
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
Private medical insurance
Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and they will match your contribution
Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, they also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
Access to their colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about their colleague networks please click here
">Opportunities to get on - take advantage of their ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want">

">About the role">
The engineers in their Identity build the APIs that securely identify customers across all touchpoints with them around the globe: online, over the phone, and in-store with Clubcards. You’ll focus on making their experiences as streamlined for customers as possible, by exploring groundbreaking authentication factors like biometrics and using ML technologies to dynamically assess the risk of each individual customer session. Your work will be at the heart of all new propositions across the group, like their new Clubcard Plus subscription service. All of this happens in a world where scale and resilience are critical - serving over a billion API calls every week in only a handful of milliseconds each!

You will be responsible for
As a Software Development Manager, your primary responsibility is to build and maintain a passionate, engaged, and effective development team of engineers. You'll do this by taking a deep interest in the people that report to you, making sure they are happy, motivated, and challenged in what they are doing, guiding them to reach pragmatic technical solutions, and keep yourself close to the code (without becoming a blocker). You'll also take ownership when things go wrong but celebrate success collectively and, in short, act as a multiplier of your team’s effectiveness.

"> Specifically, you will:

Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by finding opportunities for growth, coaching, addressing concerns, and if necessary, implementing performance management.
Grow the capability as a whole by becoming involved in their engineering hiring and being passionate about building successful and diverse teams.
Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimise risk within an outcome and help prioritise and evolve a workable technical solution ready for delivery.
Represent Identity within wider technical discussions across different business groups, constantly broadening your understanding of their technology landscape so as to increase the effectiveness of your contribution.
Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes, or work across wider groups in conjunction with programme management to deliver more significant outcomes. Drive them to constantly improve quality.
Take ownership of non-functional outcomes of features, including performance, availability, reliability, and security.
Continually look for means to evolve and improve their technology, processes, and practices.
The role will include ownership of the on-call rota to support their applications in production.

You will need
Experience relevant for this job:

Experience with management of software engineering teams of 5+ people in size.
Good knowledge of Java and the associated ecosystem.
Experience of using agile methodologies.
Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable, operationally robust, and distributed Java applications/products.

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Skills relevant for the job

A high degree of emotional intelligence: you are aware of your own emotions, how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You can empathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.
Problem-solving, analysis, and computational skills: you are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, you take a detailed and logical approach to solving them and retaining ownership through to resolution.
Customer focus: you can find the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence. You place the needs of their customers above the needs of you and the team.
Written and verbal communication skills: you can communicate effectively and efficiently, taking into account the nature of your audience.
Any previous experience of having led a globally distributed software engineering team would be a huge plus.