Head of Software Development (.Net/Azure) - Edinburgh - New (REFBJ8)

Head of Software Development (.Net/Azure) - Edinburgh - New (REFBJ8)

£100,000 - £140,000 + Excellent Benefits + Hybrid Working

A leading organisation in central Edinburgh requires a Head of Software Development to be responsible for leading a eam of c65 developers. Suitable candidates will be:

• A seasoned Head of Development, experienced in leading teams of c65+ developers.
• Proven experience in leading geographically dispersed software engineering teams, preferably in Platform engineering and management.
• Strong technical background in Platform architecture, database technologies, APIs, Data, cloud technologies, and digital transformation.
• Experience in leading the broad development of capabilities (e.g., design, standards, governance) and ways of working across an engineering organisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align various interests and requirements.
• Exceptional leadership and team-management skills as well as a knowlege of:
• Azure (using Azure for APIs, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Databases)
• Databases – Azure SQL / MongoDB - highly beenficial.
• .Net

Key Responsibilities:

• You will focus on ensuring that there is a clearly defined progression plan for ambitious and high potential individuals, and that the team is challenged, motivated, and harmonized.
• You will provide the team with clear direction and vision, leading on critical strategic initiatives and plans to continually improve the way of working and environment.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams that design, architect, develop, and maintain core platforms.
• Constantly improve the performance of the teams by implementing modern ways of working, working alongside DevOps.
• Set the strategic direction of the technology that supports and ensures that technical solutions meet business requirements.
• Engage in extensive internal and external stakeholder management, aligning with business priorities and delivery timelines.
• Oversee the setup and maintenance of scalable, highly available, and disaster recovery-enabled platforms. Continually assess and improve the cost-benefit aspects of these platforms.
• Create capabilities to enable the federated consumption of platform capabilities by other engineering teams, to standards and design patterns across the organisation.
• Implement and uphold standard practices, design patterns and strategies across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

You can expect an excellent pacjage including hyprod working, health and wellbeing rewards, excellent sharesave scheme as well as the opportunity to work in a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow.

Please send CV for full job description and an informal chat.