Job Description
Job Title: Software Development Manager
Location: Hybrid/Newcastle
Duration: Permanent
Role:
In this position you joining an established Digital Policing unit where you will be responsible for managing and facilitating the Force's software development and integration engineering activities by directing, planning, prioritising work and providing consultation and guidance to the Development team.
You will ensure that the requisite standards, frameworks and tooling constraints are adhered to in order to deliver an outstanding development service that successfully contributes to the strategic objectives of the Force.
You will also be expected to aid in problem solving, quality of delivery and design for new systems and integration's while enhancing existing systems as well as carrying out any required investigations to meet the strategic objectives of the Force.
Responsibilities:
You will manage and influence the technical delivery of large-scale development streams within projects, in line with the Project Manager's specification.
Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to understand the requisite standards, frameworks and tooling constraints applied to security, data, technologies, and application development and ensure that these are successfully adhered to by the development team.
Manage development resourcing requests, working closely with the Development Support & Maintenance Manager to ensure that the relevant skilled and experienced resource is available at the requisite time to meet demand whilst protecting the capacity of the team to successfully deliver an outstanding support function.
Supervise, train and allocate work to development staff, providing advice and guidance when required in order to enhance the services provided in support of systems.
Work closely with Digital Policing Management to ensure the provision of a fully integrated efficient, effective and customer focused development service.
Requirements:
A degree, HND or equivalent qualification, and/or have significant relevant experience.
Experience of leading a software development team
Strong experience in RESTful Web Services, MVC frameworks, Apache Tomcat, Javascript, HTML and CSS for user interface development, XML and JSON for data exchange and Oracle Databases
Solid technical skills and experience in the full Software Delivery Lifecycle
Extensive commercial experience in Java development language
Demonstrable experience of using Java Spring Framework
Knowledge of Mulesoft for integration development would be advantageous but is not essential
Please Note: Due to the nature of this organisation all applicants must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information and references.
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