JOB TITLE: Software Development Manager
JOB TYPE: Full time
DIVISION: Pearson Assessment Services
LOCATION: Rotherham, Manchester, or London
About the job: The position is for a Development Manager to recruit and lead a PHP Laravel/VUE.js team working on large scale assessment delivery application-based systems in AWS. The successful candidate will manage their own team of PHP Laravel/VUE.js developers located in multiple locations.
About you: We expect you to have significant experience as a full-stack developer. You’ll have strong leadership and management skills with experience of managing agile delivery teams that develop solutions at pace to provide real end user benefits. You will be a champion of Agile project delivery. You’ll also have experience of recruiting developers & building strong teams that deliver clean and efficient code.
Key Skills & Experience
* Strong skills in PHP Laravel/VUE.js
* Gathering, evaluating, and prioritizing requests for product changes, enhancements, and new features
* Participating in all product activities related to release and iteration planning
* Tracking product roadmap and project issues to completion
* Providing technical guidance to the development team
* Working with senior leadership team to execute long term technology strategy
* Ensuring that the development team successfully delivers applications to production
* Applying best practices for chosen development platform
* Understanding modern application architectures
* Ensuring that overall software architecture guidance in terms of best practice is followed by the team
* Recruitment of developers
* Managing training requirements for teams
* Mentor and coach team members
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams
* Strong problem-solving skills
* Excellent communication skills
* Ability to manage multiple projects effectively
* Ability to identify and document business processes and requirements
Desirable Skills & Experience
* PHP Laravel/VUE.js
* Docker and containers
* Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications
* Terraform
* Experience partnering with program management teams
* Strong Agile Scrum project management experience
* 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
* Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code
How to apply: Please submit an updated CV and cover letter (optional) in English. If you have any additional questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
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