Software Development Manager - Hybrid & Autonomy

RVC International; Potters Bar; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35-hour working week

30 days annual leave

USS pension

Hybrid working

Job summary

Royal Veterinary College is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a small team of developers and a UI/UX designer, acting as product owner for key systems across clinical care, research and teaching. You will shape how the team plans, builds and ships software, with autonomy to influence architecture and delivery.

Hybrid role based at Hawkshead Campus in Potters Bar; you’ll work with clinicians and partners, drive releases, oversight of incidents, and explore AI-assisted development to

Qualifications

• Experience leading or line managing a software team.
• Experience as a product owner or bridging users, stakeholders and developers.
• Confidence building roadmaps, planning releases and reporting to non-technical audiences.
• Strong commercial experience with ASP.NET Core, C# and SQL Server.
• Experience building integrations using RESTful APIs and message-based architectures.
• Good working knowledge of Git, automated testing and CI/CD.
• A clear communicator who can explain technical decisions simply and represent users' needs to developers.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps or similar delivery tooling.
• Experience integrating or working with SaaS platforms and their suppliers.
• Practical experience of AI-assisted development.
• Angular, TypeScript, NgRx and RxJS.
• Ionic and Capacitor.
• Docker.
• SignalR or other real-time technologies.
• Event sourcing, CQRS or Elasticsearch.
• Experience in a university, hospital, laboratory or clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and roadmap for the systems in the team's care, making sure they deliver what the College needs
• Spend time with the people who use our systems, understand how they work, and turn that into clear, prioritised work for the team
• Plan releases and deployments, and keep stakeholders informed with clear, regular reporting
• Help appraise new products and platforms, bringing recommendations to IT groups and project boards on feasibility, risk and opportunity
• Line manage and support a team of three
• Set technical direction and champion modern engineering practice across testing, code review, CI/CD and documentation
• Choose and embed the tools that help the team plan and deliver, such as Jira or Azure DevOps
• Explore how AI tools can support the team's work, and help colleagues use them well
• Design and build software in ASP.NET Core, C# and SQL Server
• Design and maintain integrations between our own systems, third-party platforms and SaaS products, using APIs and message-based architectures
• Lead on incidents, making sure what we learn shapes what we build next

Skills

Team leadership

Product owner

ASP.NET Core

C#

SQL Server

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git

Jira / Azure DevOps

AI-assisted development

Angular / TypeScript

Ionic / Capacitor

Docker

SignalR

CQRS / Elasticsearch

University/clinical setting experience

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Git

REST APIs

Docker

SignalR

Elasticsearch

Job description

Royal Veterinary College is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a small team of developers and a UI/UX designer, acting as product owner for key systems across clinical care, research and teaching. You will shape how the team plans, builds and ships software, with autonomy to influence architecture and delivery.

Hybrid role based at Hawkshead Campus in Potters Bar; you’ll work with clinicians and partners, drive releases, oversight of incidents, and explore AI-assisted development to