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Development Ops Manager
Sja's West
Liverpool City Region
On-site
GBP 50,000 - 70,000
Full time
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity at a leading charity for a Technical Team Leader to oversee the development of high-quality software and lead a DevOps team. The ideal candidate will foster a cooperative culture while driving innovation and excellent service delivery across various projects and systems. Join us in a role that offers excellent career development, a supportive environment, and a commitment to equality and safety.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Minimum of two years as a Technical Team Leader.
- Experience with low code engineers and .NET developers.
- Ability to manage teams in both Agile and Waterfall environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and line manage DevOps engineers.
- Provide technical design leadership for new solutions.
- Coordinate service delivery of platform incidents and requests.
Skills
Education
Job description
The postholder is responsible for leading the development of high-quality software and managing and supporting our technology platforms and systems as part of the DevOps team. Working within a multifunctional project team, they will develop scalable solutions adhering to best practice design principles, coding standards, and ensure exceptional service and solution delivery. With exposure across the full development lifecycle, they work on a variety of projects and programmes. They provide technical leadership and line management to support the engineers across the team. The post-holder works to challenging deadlines; managing engineers working on greenfield and brownfield projects as well as managing our support queues.
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work-life balance, and be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
- Competitive salary and pension scheme
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
- Cycle to work scheme, Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health, and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts – access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts, mobile phones, gym memberships, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays, and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,416 employees and over 31,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training, and campaigning. As a charity with a rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g., Ambulance response & Nighttime Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g., our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets, and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
This is an exciting time of transformation with an opportunity to lead and mature the charity’s data maturity by leading a new data strategy.
Job Summary
The postholder is responsible for leading the development of high-quality software and managing and supporting our technology platforms and systems as part of the DevOps team. Working within a multifunctional project team, they will develop scalable solutions adhering to best practice design principles, coding standards, and ensure exceptional service and solution delivery. With exposure across the full development lifecycle, they work on a variety of projects and programmes. They provide technical leadership and line management to support the engineers across the team. The post-holder works to challenging deadlines; managing engineers working on greenfield and brownfield projects as well as managing our support queues.
About You
You will have a degree in computing or a related subject; or equivalent relevant commercial experience, a minimum of two years as a Technical Team Leader at a similar scale organization including low code engineers and .NET developers, experience working in software delivery in both Agile and Waterfall environments. You will be able to lead technical teams, work proactively, be resilient, and prioritize and resolve issues. Excellent communication & influencing skills with all stakeholders are essential.
About the Role
- Working closely with the Head of DevOps to lead and line manage, coach, and support the engineers reporting to you
- Work to a DevOps methodology to optimize squad teams in close partnership with the Product Owners
- Provide technical design input and leadership for new solutions or changes to existing systems
- Lead technical development on key projects, working alongside existing team members
- Lead the production of well-designed, testable, efficient code / low-code applications
- Ensure documentation is completed to an appropriate level
- Contribute towards development estimates for future releases
- Coordinate the service delivery of platform incidents, requests, problems, and changes to meet SLAs, including P1 incidents
- Seek out and implement opportunities for automation & innovation in the team, helping embrace new tech such as AI
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
St John Ambulance is committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We value and support everyone to thrive, with several networks including Multi-Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers, and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate discrimination and foster a sense of belonging for all, creating an environment of mutual respect where we value differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity, and inclusion.
St John Ambulance is committed to safeguarding and promotes safe recruitment practices. All successful applicants will undergo pre-employment checks, including DBS clearance, as applicable.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
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