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Waterstons
Software Delivery Lead
£30k - £50k
Durham
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Description
About the role
You will be a confident lead in client engagements and apply great people leadership skills fused with a technical understanding of software development and commercial awareness.
You will be a strong role model for others, leading through the creative, positive and focused application of your skills.
This role requires excellent people skills, and you must have fantastic communication and relationship building skills. You will need to be able to apply these skills with your team members, clients, Waterstons staff and other third parties. You will need the ability to liaise effectively across all levels of stakeholders to ensure that projects and services are delivered effectively.
Day to day responsibilities
Support team members and lead in highly collaborative engagements delivering high quality, technically sophisticated solutions for our clients. Mentor, support, and act as leader for a number of staff in the teams (subject to experience - training will be provided to work towards this) You will ensure that the well-being people and teams are monitored and any issues are addressed by yourself and/or a suitable team leader To engage in business development activities to drive engagement from our clients, ensuring that we deliver excellent digital services to them. Work to deliver complex software projects from inception through to completion. This will include delivery management of one or more projects, overseeing all aspects of bespoke software development. Responsibilities will include planning, leading, organising and motivating small agile teams to achieve high level of performance. Follow Waterstons standards to ensure that we are complying with our ISO 9001 and 27001 requirements. This may also include: Working with clients to understand working practices and project goals to enable you to gather and deliver requirements that will deliver a solution that is fit for purpose. Predict, monitor and action risks/issues with a view to managing appropriately for both the client and for Waterstons Where necessary, manage budget and any changes of scope/budget Resourcing of projects, including acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-parties, in order to achieve the successful conclusion of projects Manage appropriate communication with stakeholders Deliver/facilitate training Engage with both the project delivery team and clients to assess feedback during project delivery, ensuring that this supports our cycle of continuous learning. Some of the skills we are looking for
Essential
Have a track record of successfully delivering bespoke software development solutions (both greenfield and brownfield) using pragmatic application of agile and waterfall development methodologies. An understanding of software development life cycle models and multiple agile development principles and practices. Have the ability to identify where the principles of these approaches are delivered well; and are able to educate others where needed. Can exercise initiative, think innovatively, use problem-solving skills and make well-judged recommendations.
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Culture overview
Everyone talks about culture nowadays... and rightly so. By building our team and business on a shared set of values, our clients tell us they can feel the difference. They can see we all care (sometimes too much). They trust the breadth and depth of our knowledge. And they know that every piece of advice is driven by a passion for their organisation; not a profit for ours. Our Values People first Our people and our clients are everything. We strive to be truly inclusive, understanding, and flexible, so that everyone has a voice and feels able to speak up. We respect and welcome people have a life beyond work, which has to be the priority, so balance is key. Collaboration We’re stronger together and we always want to work collectively to find the best solutions. We’re committed to diversity; of thought, beliefs, and backgrounds to help us push forwards as one. Empowerment Liberating our people, to make the decisions that are right for them, their team and our clients, so together they can develop, grow and reach their full potential. Innovation We harness true creativity by looking at challenges from different angles and gaining insight into other perspectives to find the best solutions. Honesty Telling the truth is fundamental. Having the courage can be hard, but we know it’s the right thing for our people and our clients, to be up front, honest and supportive. Trust Demonstrating trust is at our core. We’re not a top-down organisation and we won’t tell you what to do. We will work with you; to help you find the answers, and we’ll support our clients in this way too. Quality We will never sacrifice quality or client’s satisfaction in the interest of gain. If we get it wrong, we will fix it and we’ll ensure we learn from our mistakes.
Employee benefits
Childcare Vouchers
Cycle To Work
Flexible Working
Free Food
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Phone
Private Healthcare
Season Ticket Loan
Unlimited Holidays
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
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Leadership
Daniel Halliday
Associate Director for Digital and Data
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous integration
Infrastructure as code
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Monitoring and logging
OLAP
Rapid release cycles
Refactoring
Scrum
Separation of concerns
Unit testing
Company tech stack
window-server
aws
dot-net
sql
c
powershell
typescript
microsoft-azure
mssql
azure-cosmos-db
yaml
python
windows
javascript
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Waterstons
Software Delivery Lead
£30k - £50k
Durham
This role has expired