Head of Apps & Dev - Inside IR35 - London
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.
- Company
- Adecco
- Location
- City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Contract
- Salary
- £800 - £850/day
- Posted
- Company
- Adecco
- Location
- City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Contract
- Salary
- £800 - £850/day
- Posted