Lead Developer

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Leeds; Ibrido; GBP 70.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Employer pension contribution (28.97%)

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Flexible working options

Descrizione del lavoro

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is seeking a senior leader to head the Digital Delivery Software Development and Quality Assurance capability. You will provide technical leadership, direction, and inspiration to a team of software developers and software quality assurance engineers, delivering value to digital services.

You will assist the principal developer with team organisation, motivation, and assessment, including recruitment, development, and performance management.

Competenze

• Experience leading cross-functional software teams.
• Strong Scrum/Agile experience.
• Ability to set technical strategy and policy.
• Experience in recruitment, development and performance management.

Mansioni

• Act as Technical Lead for high-value initiatives driving development and test standards.
• Define department technical development and test strategy.
• Drive technical debt reduction and continual software improvement.
• Coordinate with Delivery Leads and management to ensure skilled expertise.
• Support teams in making technical recommendations based on analysis.

Conoscenze

Technical leadership

Software development

Quality assurance

People management

Descrizione del lavoro

The successful candidate will lead the Digital Delivery Software Development and Quality Assurance technical capability for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). They will provide technical leadership, direction, and inspiration to their team of software developers and software quality assurance engineers and will be focused on delivering value to the respective digital services. They will assist the principal developer with team organisation, motivation, and assessment. This will include recruitment, development, and performance management of team members. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King's birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

As part of the technical steering team the role holder will also manage the definition and implementation of departmental technical development and test strategy to drive Digital plans across all DVSA customer facing services.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Act as Technical Lead for high-value initiatives driving development and test standards and continuous improvement through Scrum.
• Use industry best practice and knowledge to make agency policy decisions relating to technical tool selection based on analysis of requirements.
• Create a culture that proactively manages the risks of technical debt by ensuring continual software improvement.
• Lead technical teams in relation to problem solving and technical optioneering, driving and supporting teams to make technical recommendations based on sound analysis and knowledge.
• Work closely with Delivery Leads and Lead Developer management to ensure appropriately skilled technical expertise is in place across Digital Services, owning a resource requirement pipeline against skillset is managed.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.